Richard Dawkins interviewed by Dina Volaric, ABC TV Compass

Richard Dawkins is interviewed for Australian ABC TV Compass.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Richard Dawkins Evoution
• Atheism
• Natural Selection

[wasalater]

i live in america and i am an atheist

[MartinJWillett]

@MadHatter34784 You mean normal healthy human teeth not the work of cosmetic dentists paid for by the company's dental plan?

[spareaxe]

@intimidator001 I live in the USA and I am an Atheist!!

[intimidator001]

I live in india and i am an athiest

[JacknifedTendencies]

3:12 light off, 3:13 light on

you can't explain that.

[deanmullen10]

I'd say life is meaningless nevertheless the sense of meaningless is only an emotion and yet an emotion is only a chemical therefore in a sense of it controlling your world in truth it means absolutely nothing, its just an illusion and we can choose to be happy, to not care whether life has a meaning and to create a sense of meaning in what we do because even if it is an illusion, we can choose to be happy knowing we are creating positive felt illusions for other people across the world :)

[1TheLoneWolf1]

RIP Christopher Hitchens

[Nepenthakovich]

@9:19 Comparing mainstream contemporary Atheism to the state-enforced atheism of Stalin is absurd. This is about rational discussion, not police brutality or terror. Hitler told people to stop smoking, but that doesn't mean I'm spreading bad ideas by telling people not to smoke. Note Gray's long passive sentence at 9:35. That guy can't bring himself to say by whom these attempts are made because that would make his stupidity obvious.

[9b8]

@GluttonForSex While I don't share your "vague" view of spiritual awareness, I do agree entirely about the horrible things humanity is capable of. Atheism is not devoid of those evils. In fact, the consequences are much more deceptive and can sneak up on an entire system of society, and has happened in history, even happening right now. So while we have mutual disgareements, there is an interesting modulus so to speak, and that is "truth." We both agree in what is right and true.

[GluttonForSex]

@9b8 Well, history is full examples of the mentality which flows from these vague notions of "spiritual awareness". Fanaticism, homophobia, racism, segregation, violence, murder, genocide, persecution, stoning, suicide bombings, genital mutilation... This list just goes on and on.

In the face of the profound immorality & deprevation that religion consistently gives rise to in humans, it's clear that is a highly dangerous mentality which needs close watching--especially in the nuclear age.

[9b8]

@GluttonForSex Militant? I never claimed that!

"So whose mentality is the source of the problem?"

It isn't about mentality but spirituality. A fundamental flaw in atheism is that is lacks spiritual awareness. Atheists claim spirituality is a matter of semantics, naively. At LEAST the majority of the world religions have knowledge of and thus acknowledge spirit. Atheism is attractive today because of its 'no strings attached' unpublished doctrine; it is incredibly deceptive.

[GluttonForSex]

@9b8 Hahah, you're too clever to be a random nutjob. Templeton Foundation/Discovery Institute employee?

Twist and turn all you like, but the magical sky daddy hypothesis is a theory like any other, and no theory is above criticism & scrutiny. Now, you've tried to miscast atheism as the dogmatic approach and religion as a victimized open-minded one. Yet, by your own admission, atheism acquired its militant streak from... the religious!

So whose mentality is the source of the problem? :-)