Richard Dawkins on Have Your Say (1 of 6)

Richard Dawkins answers a slew of questions about religion, science, and other topics on Have Your Say. (BBC, originally broadcasted on September 12, 2007)

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[AtheistPharaoh]

shut up theists.

[ritchloui]

God's work 'builds schools and hospitals'. Well what do they teach at those schools? How to pray? And what medicine do they use? Prayer? What a moron.

[brindow1]

@11adp Where do you get all these figures from? Are you a mathematician? When people say they believe something 99% it is a figure of speech more than an exact math quote. I am unable to follow how you arrive at a 99.999% likelihood for the existence for God. Hey,if its that certain-count me in ! Explain to me and all readers just how you have arrived at this figure.

[ritchloui]

@ghostframer Yeah, exactly. Which is the 'miracle'? The people who were saved by an aircraft crashing landing and everyone escaping safely, or the fact that thousands of aircraft fly millions of people safely all the bloody time. Who gets thanked for that? Most people who claim to study the Wholly Babble rarely deal with the grizzly bits anyway. Check out Khanacademy for one of the MOST exciting things I reckon that's happening in terms of turning education in the right direction.

[ghostframer]

@ritchloui I agree. My next door neighbour is very religious and holds meetings for people of her faith to discuss the Bible once a week. I am an atheist and spend two nights as a volunteer adult literacy tutor.

I wonder which of us is being more valuable to society?

[11adp]

@brindow1 "Because of the evidence we have its UNLIKELY there is a God,thats why dawkins refers to a 99% certainty for a natural universe."

How can you say, or Dawkins say, there is a "99% certainty for a natural universe", when there is no human that knows 99% of all things in the universe? We are lucky to know even .001% about this entire universe. So really, there's a 99.999% chance that God may exist! So, wake up atheists!

[spareaxe]

@smellyfry You have no idea of what an Atheisim is... it's a stance against religious claims.....if you claim there is a god you need proof and evidence. Atheisim isn't trying to disprove a god.

[Hulkamania4eva]

Felix, one is saying 'we don't know' while the other is pretending that they do know. Big difference.

Penny, Religion is also why billions of people have bee raped, murdered and pillaged for centuries. For every case of good, there is a case of bad.

[smellyfry]

My advise to Dawkins that could make him even richer .

Actually can win most of the debates he attends just by citing the fact that there is really no scientifice evidence.

But he has appeared OVER CONFIDENT. I do not blame him because of his huge success.

Dawkins, you can win by just selling the idea that God Maybe or May Not Exist.

Although this appears that you cannot completely debunk Creationists, you have won by giving a conclusion that WE ACTUALLY DO NOT KNOW for sure.

[TupacX2Pak]

Snoop and Cube sum it up pretty nice. If you scared go to church motherfuckers.