Richard Dawkins 3of3: The Future of Science

Richard Dawkins describes the 20th century as the digital century, with advances in computing and the discovery that the genetic code is digital. It was a century of great scientific discovery, yet the public understanding and appreciation of science has diminished. This has also led to an unfortunate vulnerability to pseudoscience and misinformation, as well as outright hostility to science.

From a conference in 1998 called Der Digitale Planet (The Digital Planet), which also included Douglas Adams, Daniel Dennett, Jared Diamond and Steven Pinker. Links follow:

Douglas Adams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msAF_MDYWNE

Daniel Dennett: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psBwnE0ByUw

Stephen Pinker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrb5ClvDho

Jared Diamond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV_P1VGqMBo


Found here (at the bottom):
http://www.reitstoen.com/dennett.php

Direct link to video (real media):
http://www.web-for-vision.com:8080/ramgen/SPIEGEL/Wfv_Isdn.smil

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• dawkins
• science
• cosmology
• physics
• biology
• evolution
• consciousness

[mohfoz77]

Excellent.

Professor RICHARD DAWKINS is an inspiration for all of us.

[braindoodle89]

Dawkins is just an incredable speaker

[wojovox]

The Dawk is in.

[PianoWallaby]

Thanks for posting!

[fordogtrainers]

@ingensting "it is strange to think it would spread so much without having any very good point."

The same is valid about everything in existence.(Not to say that you are wrong but more that you need to keep thinking about your idea.)

Religion was the very first way humans tried to explain the world with,It was our first philosophy and our first way of explaining morals and give us meaning.

It did not create morals , it explained them .

But now we know it is wrong so we have no need to keep it.

[Nades129]

I have grown up loving religious literature, and science, but i side with science. Because science is weak compared to religious literature. I do not underestimate science, it is weak because religious literature can be taught easily while science needs to be dwelled deeper. Quality can be overpowered quantity.

If u have children let them read science children books. Thats how I started to love truth.

[marsCubed]

In the horrors of the bronze age religion provided identity and protection in city states, it provided laws and justification for the king and priests, it held knowledge and history in it's books, it was a living thing as the books were often altered and re written as new things were deemed useful. today religion is an anachronism, it persists because people brain wash their kids and because authoritarians and con men make their living that way. it defines ignorance and cultural bigotry.

[beebobox]

what a load of crock.

beliefs in morals?

no democracy?

what a stupendous misunderstanding of what religion is.

[humanist7117]

Though the mind arose out of the brain, they have evolved different though interelated functions.