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'There is grandeur in this view of life' by Richard Dawkins, AAI 2009

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Richard Dawkins' talk at the 2009 Atheist Alliance International Conference in Burbank, California. He expands the last paragraph of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" as a framework for the talk. This is also the framework for the last chapter of Dawkins' new book "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution".

See more about "The Greatest Show on Earth" at:
http://richarddawkins.net/thegreatestshowonearth

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  • Once again, Dr. Dawkins, you have struck me with awe.

  • I found the moment at 1:46 - reading Darwin's final paragraph very touching and emotional, both from observing RD's own emotions in regard to it and my own....a beautiful moment of inspiration.

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  • I love Dr. Dawkin's books. He has a wonderful way of making complex scientific concepts so brilliantly simple.

  • @virtualguitarist what's so funny?

    having a point in your comment would be nice :)

  • @iwanttocrashmybike

    That's just what Jesus said!

  • @virtualguitarist I can see your reason to laugh at it, because it is so fun to consider the fact that one of my ancestors were not even a cell.

    That is the amazing thing about life, it is greatly powerful to adapt to the situaion.

  • Natural selection? LOL

  • @MrStupididy : Where's your gay-pride now?

  • @MrStupididy : You're aptly named.

  • @YourUTubeMonitor Please will you shut the fuck up.

  • @YourUTubeMonitor Who said they can't be reproduced by state of the art technology. Who said a lifetime of training with very little distractions not make the most beautiful structures,the most precise puzzles,and so on and so forth.Who says that it is impossible. We were not there to witness the most beautiful paintings being painted, the most thought provoking works being written,but that does not mean they did not happen,that does not men they are still great works and achievements. Fuck you

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