Ted Haggard - Richard Dawkins Interview Uncut?

This is so hilarious! Thank you for making this.

Not that I have much respect for the likes of Haggard and most of the theo-con dirtbags around today, there is one major point that Dawkins et al miss. Science is great but it is not a way of life. At some point we reject the rational and need to believe in something greater and intangible. Religion, saner versions, can fill that space with something reasonably positive. Otherwise we wander off into even more bizarre stuff.

Einstein was an idiot, really?

jrsbarker, I agree, if we see the human person as merely protein in vital and computational and mechanical action, then the worth of life is dramatically reduced leading to a human experiment alike the Soviet's. How many before it somehow works, maybe never.

The moral economy would burst if this were the common view of life and humanity. There is a need for the pushed appreciation of human worth and substance, as going beyond feelings and comprehension. Exploits

Please show me where I say Einstein was an idiot

jsbarker, the reply was firstly to someone else. This passages placing within youtube is haphazard. I agree with you.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Who are you assuming views humans as "merely protien in vital and computational and mechanical action"?

Furthermore, you assume that the only possible way to view humans as anything other than this is through religion.

Explain to me then, how non-believers create art, poetry and music. And how they have intimate relationships with other people.

You have a warped and false view of the way non-believers think.

You can't generalize about a billion Hindus and so on. But pro choice, and a certain type of people think that way. Look at the Japanese whaling industry and it's opposition. The opposition is sensitive to whales and dolphins large central nervous system and their sense of attachment and loss... The latter are better, but that is not enough for humans. The idea that life matters depending on the size of the nervous system and emotional attachment.

Which art, poetry and music?
I like philantropy

I'll name a few well known atheist contributors to art, music and poetry; though there are many more.

Music: Bela Bartok, Hector Berlioz, W.A. Mozart were atheist; Beethoven (pantheist). Oh, and Randy Newman (Toy Story)

Art: I don't keep up with visual artist- but you would have to be a fool to suggest that you must believe in god to be a great artist.

Poetry:Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, Edgar Allan Poe

Not to mention brilliant writers: B.F. Skinner, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley

The opinions of scientists are contrary to one another, I won't be just looking left and right like a child to see who to follow. I comprehend science to an extent myself, but it is only a tool. Natural philosophy, seeing only a limited spectrum of the universe. Your views seem to undermine the equal vote.
Einstien is quoted as saying he believed in Spinoza's god 1929. A distant impersonal god.
In reply to Dawkins, novels were written by outstanding scientists in favour of belief in the Christ.