Richard Dawkins On Aliens, God, And The Complexity Of Life (2/2)

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Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday, August 11, 2008. The interview was conducted by Paula Kirby.

Many thanks to Douglas Bogie Gray and Mirage Television for filming the event!

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.

Richard 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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[eurohim]

Heck, the Aztecs thought Cortez and his men were gods because of their ships, weapons, horses, and success in battle. That was only in ummm the 16th or 17th century.

[SpidermanInLondon]

@bm5891 I disagree due to the certain way life can now be synthetically created in the lab from its constituent parts. It has been proved that the ingredients for life can occur naturally and under very specific circumstances can create a cell. Therefore this probably means Mankind can trace its origins to Earth. However, the basic structure of DNA has been found in meteorites which date much older than the Earth, suggesting life has a direct link to the fundamental elements of the universe.

[20BCeltics]

What does Dawkins mean by "something LIKE evolution? 3:10

[karamarouge]

@eurohim So dawkins mistook aztecs for God? my my my!

[karamarouge]

@SpidermanInLondon "It has been proved that the ingredients for life can occur naturally and under very specific circumstances "

This is a statement from utter ignorance. The so called specific circumstances are very very unnatural labaratory circumstances that DO NOT AND HAVE NEVER EVEN COME CLOSE TO CREATING LIFE!

It is sad with half educated people run their mouths about issues they clearly dont understand.

[MrSiyincaba]

The Elien species are already here on Earth using our world leaders to continue to do harm to Earth's habitants. the abductions and Mutiliations happening in the US is prove that the Eliens are after no Good. Our leaders are selling our souls to the devils; Eliens; they are not here to save us but to conduct some of their experiments on Humans therefore Its time our Governments especially in the US to stop these nonsense and Give the Eliens THE MIDDLE finger.

[MrSiyincaba]

The majority of the world habitants believes that there is God out there & created the universe with its habitants that evolved thereafter. There is one God the only creator that send jesus on Earth as a sacrifice to our sins. The lord God destroyed everything that the Eliens started to create on Earth. As a matter of fact; the Eliens are abducting Human kinds as proven in today's time. The Kingdom of heaven ran by God himself is Eliens and Eliens are trying by all means to control us.

[Smokemalboro]

@weeryan2008 just to let you know wikipedia is not a very reliable site to get your resources.as college students write the articles on this and everyone can edit information very easily on this site

[MisterCarrillo]

This man should LEAD the entire world.

[MrPokerblot]

It is just logic really

[weeryan2008]

@mafiamitzy Sweet. Thanks for that.