Famous Creationist Quote Mining

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Famous Creationist Quote Mining - Richard Dawkins @ American Atheist (AA) Conference 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia (Part 1)

Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen.

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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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[overman926]

Who uses Yahoo's search engine?

[wHisperis001]

@Mogley52 Even if there were absolutely no fossils ever found, evolution would STILL be a proven fact you like it or not. Fossils are only a convienant part of the theory of evolution which complies with other types of evidence, like homologous structures, vestigal organs, genome synteny, gene order, wobble position sequance, intron sequence, pseudogene sequenc, retroviruses (anatomical and genetic similarities with the help of DNA) and also fields like geographical distribution and some others

[paramattic70]

@Delra12 typical Christian. Read one page of a book and write it off. I'm so sick of Christians.

[shoppittsburghnow]

brilliant video

[Delra12]

@allieron God, I'm sick of atheists...

[Golkarian]

I think Dawkins may be the most quote mined guy out there. I'm not blaming him, but his writing style seems especially prone to it.

[geezerbill]

@overman926, I do. I've been using it for over 15 years. Fuck Google.

[stfuplz13]

@allieron all of the above

[allieron]

@stfuplz13 This is likely because your brain is under-developed or simply full of shit. I'd guess that the thousand other things you'd rather be doing start with "mastur" and finish with "bation" ? Or praying.

[stfuplz13]

He gives me a headache. Six minutes is just too long a time to listen to the man drone on and on about nothing. This is why I couldn't read his books-- I picked up the "God Delusion," read the first few pages, thought of the thousand other things I could be doing, and put it back.