The Arrogant Certainty Of Science - Richard Dawkins @ Pop!Tech (1)

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Richard Dawkins believes sciences ability to admit ignorance is one of its greatest strengths. On the flip side, he proposes that faith remains arrogant and all too certain of its validity without any rational set of proofs.

Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007.

Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term "meme". He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker", he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.

Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book "The God Delusion", he contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that faith qualifies as a delusion − as a fixed false belief.

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[unamaxify]

infectious faith disease

i was infected too

Richard Dawkins & Christoper Hitchens healed me.

If you open your brain you can be free too.

[LostSubsForever]

The first rule of quantum theory is...you don't talk about quantum theory!!

[rkyeun]

@dkthg

Go for it. I make these up on the fly. I might not even remember this, and someone should get use out of it.

[rkyeun]

@dlenz4437

> Why are people judgmental and try to discredit people of faith?

Because the things believed on faith are false, and they inform the actions of believers in harmful and dangerous ways.

Purpose is not something you derive from the universe, it is something you inflict on it. You don't need faith to decide your purpose, but science can help inform you about your choices.

[dkthg]

@rkyeun Damn straight. Btw: i'm stealing that comment for myself.

[rkyeun]

@dkthg

Science is self-correcting.

Religion is self-corrupting.

[dkthg]

The key difference between religion and science is that science is open to be challenged, falsified and is SELF-CORRECTING.

[kiwihans]

The Potasium argon clock is NOT reliable in aging fossils found mostly in sedementary rock and not ignious rock. Sedimentary rock allows for contamination of a specemin making it possible for a wide variety of dates. ( Libby who invented the radio carbon clock admitted it also was unrelaible. Dawkins wont tell us any of this, he is too busy and blinded in his hate for relgion.

[dlenz4437]

Reason 4 Faith: So our time here on earth has a purpose.

Reason 4 Science: Acquiring knowledge.

Why are people judgmental and try to discredit people of faith??? I couldn't tell you but i'm guessing self-gratification. If you study science(no matter what field) do it for the reason of love and not for anything else(humility). We all know there are people who are fanatically religious yet are immoral, contradicting, lacking a backbone, etc., but that is in all walks of life.

[brazilamaral]

he is a pretty good speaker