The Deconversion of Richard Dawkins

You read that correctly! I got Dawkins to give his deconversion story!

Ok, no I didn't, but this is from the debate and it's as close to one as I could imagine...and I've got it all on tape. YEAH ME!

This is the "Deconversion of Richard Dawkins!" The footage recorded here came from The God Delusion Debate that was held at UAB on Oct 3, 2007. There was no opening disclaimer at the event, nothing on the tickets, nothing on the flyer that was handed out at the event, and no signs (that I noticed) that said anything about filming not being allowed. The footage was recorded by me and therefore Fixed Point Foundation holds no copyright to this video. Enjoy.

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[supersmash43]

Why did he use the term Darwinism? Isn't that a straw man term creationists love to use against evolution?

[KingHeathen]

@supersmash43 Darwinism can be misused and turned into a straw man (and often is by the uneducated) but it is also a real term used to describe a particular concept within evolution which Darwin gets the credit.

[TheLovesoul1]

@KingHeathen you know evolution is accelerating right.

[KingHeathen]

@TheLovesoul1 "evolution" can't "accelerate" as it doesn't move at a given speed. So you'd have to be more specific as to what you meant by that.

[gamesbok]

It's an evolved sense of justice.

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

- Albert Einstein

[DaboiaRusselli]

@KingHeathen I don't like the word "Darwinism" because it implicitly refers to "social Darwinism," which is a eugenic doctrine in which the laws of natural selection are applied to human society - that people who are socially "successful" are more desirable while those who are not sucessful (poor, disabled, minority races, etc.) are written off as being "bad genetic material" (and often, steriliizied).

It has nothing to do with sience or the ToE, of course.

[SQuiRR3LM0nk3y]

@supersmash43 He uses Darwinism because in England, the intellectual big brothers of America, doesn't twist the term around.

[tafftastic]

@KingHeathen I know, it was a joke! ;-)

[KingHeathen]

@tafftastic I don't know if HE can....but YOU can't! ; )

It's "hypocrite"...I have no idea why they put an e on the end, but they do.

(Sorry...couldn't resist, the irony was too funny)

[tafftastic]

@Kodiaksaint And when testing of fossils using one of the 100+ dating methods confirm the findings of each and other individual test? And when microbiologists confirm that DNA removed from those cells still able to reveal their genetic code confirm the other 100+ dating methods? And when evolutionary biologists come up with a chronological order of evolution, which in turn is confirmed by the other 100+ dating methods? This is presupposition? You're guessing. That's not very scientific my friend

[tafftastic]

@MrGeorgios2020 Can you spell 'hypocrit'?