American Atheists 09 - Richard Dawkins (w/ Q&A)

Richard Dawkins at the American Atheists 2009 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The talk is divided into four sections: 1. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation / 2. Mining the Eddington Concession / 3. God as Science Ficton / 4. Q&A on dealing with Creationists

A note from Richard:

"In my Atlanta talk, I briefly quoted the journalist Melanie Phillips, as a possible source of John Lennox's 'stunning revelation'. Unfortunately, I also attributed another, similar quotation to her, which was in fact from another blogger who had referred to her. This was inexplicably slipshod on my part. I apologise, and have asked Josh to remove the brief section of my talk where I spoke about Melanie Phillips.

Richard"

Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen

See more at http://RichardDawkins.net

Also see Andy Thomson's talk "Why We Believe in Gods" from this convention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Richard Dawkins
• American Atheists
• God as Science Fiction
• Religion
• Science
• Evolution
• Origin of life
• Ben Stein
• Expelled
• The Black Cloud
• Fred Hoyle
• John Lennox
• Intelligent Design
• Charles Darwin

[Thinkdeep420]

SCIENCE RULES!!!!

[drums4woodstock]

i love richard dawkins nerdy style. keep rocking those Hawaii shirts

[Areyourealythatdumb]

@jelliedsoup athiesm is a constant that burnes its ideas in a forge of argument and the heat of intellectual conflict, your purile, cowardly, agnostacism is to me and athiest, a sign that you have either a lack of intellectual strength or are just to scared to take the fight to one side or the other. in fact you are a piculiarity because you reside here attacking me for choosing a side and backing it, therefore you have the drive, your clearly just to nieve to fight a good fight.

[Areyourealythatdumb]

@jelliedsoup and that is where you are ignorant, firstly it was ironic, secondly the reason that athiesm seems like a cult/belife is because you see it through a narrow minds eye. athiesm does not fight the belife in god or orgonised religion purley because it wants to be an opposite to a dogma its because it is seen to be the least lickley applicable truth. if god was discovered scientists and athiests would admit to being wrong, then set to figuring out what god is made of.

[jelliedsoup]

@Areyourealythatdumb

I initially thought your use of "realy" was ironic, now I'm not sure.

If you say I'm ignorant so I ask you why, and all you can offer is "I cannot disprove a negative" and a weak analogy.

This view is typical and why many view new atheism as a cult/belief. The more I come across its proponents the more entrenched they appear.

Unless you can offer some proof of why I'm ignorant, I won't bother to replying to you.

Time to put up or shut up.

[Areyourealythatdumb]

@jelliedsoup though i agree i my possition would suggest that am losing a battle. because as you say, i cannot disprove a negative, however i don't ever seek to use old clichets to win an argument. instead i will simply say this. if i said to you that tomorrow it would rain in all parts of the world at some point within that one day. would you call me a fool or would you back your agnostacism and say that such a phonomanon is possible even if very very rare, and is to be accepted.

[jelliedsoup]

@Areyourealythatdumb

Excellent, all required evidence to disprove a god must be very nearly in. Someone can finally tell me what evidence is known, unknown and also assign a % value to it.

Don't worry I have no expectation that you can back up why I'm ignorant of the chance of a god existing. I'm expecting your 'proof' to consist the inability to disprove a negative. if you don't know this position assumes its conclusion.

[Areyourealythatdumb]

@jelliedsoup logic is made up of chance and evidence, though i don't have evidence that god does not exist (not irrefutable evidence atleast) i can however deduce that god is a very unlikley possability and that is why i am an athiest. to be agnostic you have to be either very cowardly or very ignorance of chance.

[jelliedsoup]

@Areyourealythatdumb

I don't claim to know, yet as I haven't reached the same conclusion as your fundamentalist mind has reached without evidence, yet I'm ignorant? Do tell me more oh brave atheist.

Really has 2 l's

[Areyourealythatdumb]

@jelliedsoup stifle your ignorance and view the world further away from your cowardly fence.

[jelliedsoup]

does anyone buy this bollocks?

[jelliedsoup]

twat. emotive language. religion is bad, atheism is good. twat.