Richard Dawkins - Break the Science Barrier, Part 3 (1/2)

SCIENCE is useful but that is not all it is. Science can be uplifting, thrilling, life-enhancing. Originally broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 in 1996, Break the Science Barrier follows the Oxford Biologist Richard Dawkins as he meets with people who have experienced the wonders of science first-hand. We meet the astronomer who first discovered pulsars, the geneticist who invented DNA fingerprinting, a scientist who discovered a protein that causes cancer, and others. Dawkins interviews famous admirers of science such as Douglas Adams and David Attenborough, and asks them why science means so much to them. We also see how dangerous ignorance of science can be in classrooms, courts, and beyond.

With so many expressing paranormal beliefs and ignorance of science, Dawkins encourages viewers to contrast these ancient superstitions with the power and beauty of our scientific achievements and understanding.

Credit:
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
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[medallish]

lol yeah xD. Dawkins is great, and he has pretty much completely destroyed creationist claims, and hopefully begun the slow defeat of religious dogma.

[originosity]

That's such a funny comment because you say it with so much force when it is so obviously false.

[emikochan13]

@devgreek um the definition of a scientist is someone performing experiments to prove / disprove hypothesis'.

Alas this does not preclude religious people, but education does a lot of damage to religious belief, you probably won't find a scientist that is a fundamentalist, but there are deist and theist scientists.

Also cognitive dissonance.

[johnny2086]

@STEPHENWRAYSFORD33

that would be one confused person.......



[devgreek]

@STEPHENWRAYSFORD33 Such a thing does not exist and yes you can say there are people that are religious but they claim to be scientists since they simply contradict themselves by accepting the non-facts that religions dish out.

[STEPHENWRAYSFORD33]

@mattyrm ?? So a religous scientist would be awesome & yet not?

[prplehrt120]

@byteresistor rofl

[Helge129]

@itarethetroll Are you insulting retards?

[fransinhooo]

They took our jobs!

[PeaceOfTruth]

I love Dr. Richard Dawkins but i think i love him even more after he quoted late Dr. Carl Sagan

[robelicit]

@party489 ....GREAT point u make--the Founding fathers believed in rigorous debate & challenging ideas & OPEN minded ways of respect & innovation; it was NOT about the tired LAME debate of Religion Vs. Science---

that's just a time-wasting-boring-duality; those 2 are used by PALIN-PO$ERS & BECKdreks &

their fake pals to fool gullible folks everyday, hah just watch POX News.

--The REAL debate is between honest facts VS. Media-manipulation.