UC Berkeley Event (6/6) - Richard Dawkins

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On Saturday, March 8th, 2008, Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on The God Delusion during his US Tour. The event took place on the UC Berkeley campus in Wheeler Auditorium, and was completely sold out. A line of hopeful attendees stretched around the side of the building, waiting to see if there would be any 'no-show' tickets at the last minute! There was a Q&A session that followed the talk, which will be posted to the site soon.

Camera by Josh Timonen and Wayne Marsala
Edited by Josh Timonen

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Richard
• Dawkins
• Religion
• Science
• God
• Delusion
• Evolution
• Biology

[aModernDandy]

I always tried to disagree with Dawkins. I studied Religion as a main subject in my last two years of school, and Philosophy as an additinal subject. And whenever we discussed Dawkins I frantically tried to disagree with him. But ever since I left school half a year ago I kept thinking about his arguments and his thories and I realized that I do agree with him.

Now I watched these videos and I have to say they were brilliant - and I'm glad that I can acknowledge that now.

[dLimboStick]

5:01 Exactly the straw that broke the camels back for me to become an atheist. My father was strictly raised a Roman Catholic...growing up in a Catholic boarding school. On his death bed, he confided in me that he was afraid he would not get into heaven...not because he himself didn't qualify, but because perhaps God thought that he didn't raised his kids to fear God as he did.  What a fucked up organization to plant such guilt into a person that menaces them all the way to their last breath.

[inarko]

@guilemaster147

You remind me of Wendy Wright:

- Where are the transitional forms?

-- Obviously I do not carry fossils on me, but you are free to visit any larger museum which do display them.

- But still. Where are the transitional forms? You have no evidence! haha

-- I told you to go look at the evidence and you completely ignored what I said.

- Where is the evidence? Not even one fossil haha!

-- Pointless discussion..

Educate yourself mate. If you want to know, then free yourself!

[guilemaster147]

@n00bzorr Enlighten me. Where is the empirical evidence presented by this guy?

[n00bzorr]

@guilemaster147 No proof? You must be new here. Welcome to Science.

[guilemaster147]

I wonder why people try to disprove others, or change their belief on things like religion. The ONLY thing that will come of it is conflict. Their job is nothing but egotistical, they think that their thoughts on things are the most important or correct, when they have no proof. All they want is to cause conflict and get coverage. How sad.

[AxeHomeless]

@dejawolf Obi Rich Dawkskobi?^^

[davewatcher]

The chance of one's existence is so tiny as to be next to nothing. Could not a sense of self re-occur in other individuals at different times in the same way that someone could have a similar eye colour or shape of ear?

[bbsonjohn]

An awesome answer to the ultimate concern.

[LsBaba]

I've been reading The God Delusion recently. It's nice to see the man himself presenting and speaking about some of the topics covered. Helps set the tone (a lot of humour but also anger at the injustices) for the book.

[dejawolf]

Dawkins: if you strike me down, i shall become more powerful than you can ever imagine!