I am slowly coming to the conclusion that Richard Dawkins is one of the most patient people on the planet. He sits there being accused of intolerance whilst tolerating the scientific illiteracy of his accusers. Were he religious he'd be a saint.
+Tell Max it concerns the Sandman hahaha I would get a lot more angry for sure! Look at the guy sitting next to Dawkins. He has his book, with 1000 bookmarks of places he has picked out, most likely in order to question him on it. Not very fair that someone can know 1000 of your ideas and you know nothing about them and now you have to debate them. This shows the power of science. He doesn't need to pick at them. He can just use logic and science to answer the questions.
i agree. he has the patience to sit and listen to really dumb arguments and actually attempt to respond to them. if that was me in there i'd be like, "shut the fuck up with your stupidity!"
@vljzlj I would say it's too small of a sample. You'd also have to put religious people in there to do the same game in order to actually form a conclusion about religion making people be good. Also "atheist" does not mean "not superstitious". Some atheists will believe in some crazy shit. Just because they don't believe in a god doesn't mean they'll be rational about everything else including ghosts. > "but this one is just clearly showing that people need some for of God exist he or not, to 'watch over them' or else most of people would not have a 'moral' compass" That's totally wrong. No one did what they did because they believed in a god. Heck it might have been a coincidence that any of them cheated. And even if it was because of a belief it was a belief in a ghost which is not a god.
They redefine words throughout the entire video, that's what you do when you don't understand the word's meaning. They argue the words they don't comprehend. They don't look at themselves, and so when they look at someone else they see themselves.
My thoughts exactly. Looking at that face and listening to that diatribe of crap makes you wonder how long it will be until that nutcase grabs a gun and kills people for his "beliefs".
and I've been so inspired by it. The way he keeps his cool and explains and answer some seriously dumb questions over and over again! Rock solid patience. Something for me to learn for sure :)!
Yeah, I know. Look at her face; she just give this out because she was surrounded with proper arguments from Dawkins and didn't have any chance to win.
Thank you for writing that, because I had to watch it like five times at 5:22, and still couldn't figure out why she shouted "it's America!"..... Couldn't understand her. And when she says it, she has her arms crossed and a pissed look on her face. Happy times.
Really? I know these videos don't do him justice but few men on earth have a better grasp on logic than Gerard. If he were allowed to really talk Dawkins would've left crying
Yes. That’s how logic works. It’s able to help make probability arguments and considering the logical arguments for Christianity between historicity surrounding Jesus, philosophical arguments for divine simplicity made by Christian theologians for quiet literally over 1000 years, and variety of other arguments made by other Catholic logicians like Casey, Aquinas, and more it is able to show why Christianity is far more likely to be true than any of those other religions.
Holy shit, that woman is batshit crazy..I actually feel sorry for her because she's an average Jane type..a good-hearted simpleton who uses emotion and intuition to come down to empirical conclusions about the nature of reality. She's so naive..bless her soul.
@@jwb52z9 That's the problem, they see everything as a provocation and attack..well, sticks and stone. In their case, at one point it was literally sticks and stones that they used to hurt the non-believer's bones..yet they cry wolf over scrutiny and mockery: insecure and deluded..what a combination!
@Michael Brown I fear you suffer from a gross misapprehension of what evangelists are, what a gospel is and what paganism is. All of this suggests that you - for some reason - believe that atheism is a religion. How can you possibly believe that you're able to add intellectual value to a conversation when you spit out nonsensical word salad? Who should want to listen to you speak?
If you watch the oprah episode with dan barker in, the audience is much much worse. Most of them don't believe in evolution, richard would have a brain hemorrhage listening to them.
In all fairness I think it's almost impossible for people brought up to be immersed in popular culture, full of "no-go" zones on God and religion, for them to put together suitable questions for Professor Dawkins.
The philosopher guy started off sounding reasonable and intelligent but showed his true, fundamental intellectual weakness when he kept needling Dawkins on the question of why alien life most probably exists. As Dawkins stated repeatedly, it's a speculation, of course he has no evidence of alien life, nobody does, but we know there are billions upon billions of planets in the universe and the universe has existed for billions of year it's perfectly reasonable to speculate that somewhere else in the universe there is or was or will be life. The religious just hate the idea that our planet may not be unique in the universe. In the entire vastness of the universe it seems God only likes one small tribe in the middle east.
+Kmeister I found that point interesting as well. The audience members bitch about him being close minded. Then when he speculates about intelligent life out there, they bitch about his evidence for it. It makes no sense. What an irony it would be however, if we found that out that we are really unique. That as we move out in to space, because the universe is so old, because we are late comers to the universe (2/3rds of the universe has existed before we even got here) because the distances are so far, that all we find is nothing or just long dead civilizations. I feel that life must be abundant in the universe. But wouldn't it be ironic if we found that we were the only ones alive :)
+Kmeister This was an attempt to trap him, i.e. if aliens can exist with no evidence than so can a god. Of course the kicker is that aliens don't have contradicting properties that make them impossible.
+Richard Gates Plus - nor has he categorically actually claimed they do exist. Just that they're more probable than improbable based on actual evidence. Just as any god is improbable based on a lack thereof when it comes to evidence and based on anything that's ever been discovered/written in terms of any god/religion.
man, that last exchange really bugged me. you don't need evidence for speculation. it's not like richard is saying life on other planets is a fact. that guy is dumb! "i'm going to a party tonight. my friends are PROBABLY there already" i don't need any evidence for that. it's just speculation. this really exemplifies the irrational thinking of these believers. their logic is really very different. science says 1+1=2. if their god says 1+1=3, they would believe that to be true no matter how illogical it is.
The only close minded people here are the ones who criticise the specualtion of alien life in the universe. For a start, humans are primarily made up of 4 of the 5 most abundant elements in the universe. In other words, there's a lot of Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen and Nitrogen out there. Additionally, many scientists believe based on the evidence that Mars was once suitable for life before Earth. That would mean that 2 planets within the Solar System have had conditions suitable for life. Bearing all of this in mind, it is extremely egocentric to suggest that we are alone and that nowhere else in the universe has had conditions which have led rise to life. That's without saying that organisms across the universe could have evolved in incomprehensible ways such that they are suited to environments that we would consider extreme. It is quite simple to see when looking at the arguments that for someone to speculate that there is alien life is the norm.
Religion is very hostile in ireland if im not mistaken. when i was there some guys had a fight on the street calling each other out for their religion.
That women who claimed her story as being a miracle is what's wrong with these people. I've come across people like her so many times. You are in a bad place and then religion helped you and it's a miracle is it? So it has nothing to do with you realizing the bad situation you are in and acting upon it by talking to whether it's psychologist or in her case a priest who gave her advise? People tend to give religion so much credit in cases like this without even realizing, it was them who did all the work to better themselves.How can anyone be this close minded? What about the thousands of people who committed suicide because of depression? Why didn't Jesus save them? Did they not deserve a miracle? What was so special about the lady in the crowd?
Agree completely. She was in a bad place, like everyone finds themselves in at one time or another and because she found a way out of it, it just has to be a miracle. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people around the world (men, women, children) suffer tremendously everyday, are starving, beaten, raped, exploited, tortured, neglected, treated like cattle and die alone and in agony (whether by their own hand or another) and nothing for them, but for this lady, a miracle. The height of human vanity and foolishness.
togce Precisely. People give very little credit to the power of their own mind and will at harnessing a positive energy/mindset in order to dig themselves out of the mental hole they find themselves in.
She reminds me of the mother who gave thanks to god for enabling her son to survive the Twin Towers attack. What about the three thousand who perished?
Recovering theist here (like recovering alcoholic :P). I myself, looking back often ask, "How did I fall for that religious crap to begin with?" And the only answer I can come up with is that I didn't know better. See Richard Dawkins' point about religious indoctrination. We are taught that the Bible is true, and that if anybody says contrary that it's a lie, so you shouldn't believe them. It took scientific evidence to knock me from religion's grasp. **Edit: see childhood indoctrination.**
@@thekhasi4823 As history has shown us countless times, religion is not strictly synonymous with morality and compassion, nor is atheism a lack thereof.
There are many holy books, many religions and many proposed gods. It's a bit like the washing powder aisle in the supermarket. They all wash whiter than white. Maybe I should pick the one my mother used ?
Τhis man's capacity for expaining his arguments to the ignorant, small-minded religion-stricken imbeciles is truly remarkable. I would have lost my shit at least three times in this clip. Dawkins is an excpetional thinker, converstationalist, writter and scientist.
Right, like you'd ever be surrounded by a room full of curious minds waiting to hear your next thought. It's been 6 years since you typed 'writter' and you still haven't corrected your grammar error. You're aware they made spellcheck for people like you, right?
These people just don't get it: Yes, the process of evolution can be cruel. But to believe in evolution is not to embrace cruelty. Evolution gave us a liking for the flesh of other animals, but we can ignore that and go vegan. Evolution gave us violent tendencies, but we can tame them. Evolution gave us a desire to mate often, and have many children, but we can limit family size voluntarily, and most folks do. I don't like that there are animals that would like to kill and eat me. I don't like that there are pathogens and parasites that want to infect and infest me. But I'm not going to deny those things because it "feels wrong."
If I lived completely by logic and math and science, I would advocate for the elimination/breeding out of human emotion from the species and/or simply ending the species once and for all.
Two greatest crimes of religion against society: 1) Terrifying small children they could burn in Hell for eternity (=psychological child abuse) 2) The foisting on desperate credulous people the false promise of eternal life Tragically and legendarily sad
I used to perceive Richard Dawkins as intolerant of the religious but after watching this talk I have completely changed my mind. He shows great restraint and sympathy for the people who express their faith. And as to the point of there probably being alien beings beyond our ability to imagine them, that's simple maths. It's more likely than not that there are other sentient beings in the universe just on the basis of numbers. If people from a million years ago encountered their modern descendents (us), we would appear godlike and alien with marvelous supernatural powers.
''I was depressed and someone told me that there's actually a magical man in the sky and he love me very much and that made me happy again...IT'S A MIRACLE!!!''.....LOL seems like an irrefutable argument to me
Richard Dawkins is a true hero for standing up against religion. I mean, he doesn't need to. He'd be perfectly happy doing science and scientific research, but he does it for the sake of humanity and that is admirable.
The guy at 0:40 kills me! His proof that there is a god is because we feel that death is wrong? What species would survive long if it didn't have a strong drive to live and an advertion to death? How long would gazelles be on this planet if they didn't care enough about living or dying that they just ignored the lion charging at them?...
Most of this was basically about semantics, the audience were misinterpreting the word faith and applying it wrongly to what Dawkins was saying. That point at the very end about having no evidence for 'probable' life was just embarassing. Poor Richard
Only to himself when he realized he had lost all credibility to his stupid beliefs. Was an atheist? Nah! Just a Christian way of wanting to not look and appear stupid.
Equivocation fallacy, one of many the religious engage in. The definition of faith always comes into question, whereby they employ the classic "we have trust in something", rather than belief in something without evidence. A game of charades with simpletons..
That was incredibly annoying. Copernicus, Gallileo and countless others spent their lives confronted with the same sort of willful, belligerent ignorance in their day, albeit at some risk to their lives. The featured audience members were exactly the same sort of individuals that in ages not too far past would have happily burned or stoned Dawkins to death for challenging their ignorance. Led by that shouty northern Irish twat, no doubt, and exonerated and declared righteous by the someone exactly like Casey under the premise that 'it was for Dawkin's own good'.
Copernicus and Galileo were both religious and scientists by the way, not atheists, just as Kepler, Newton, Bacon et al were religious too, with rational belief in God. It is in fact atheism which has no evidence to support it...
colin5577 In The case of Gallileo, the case is extreme, because the clergy would have believed Galileo was telling the truth about what he saw, only that he was being visually deceived by the devil.
Zayd Depaor Thanks. Doesn’t surprise me, as calculus had not been developed to explain movement. Besides, regards the heliocentric solar system, Galileo wasn’t initiating theory, rather reporting on observations to confirm Copernicus. I don’t know if Galileo knew of Ptolemy. Modern science has also degraded to Newton. The problem for Galileo was his Natural Philosophy was opposed to Church teachings, where the realm of outer space was mystical. Though the moons circling Jupiter could be observed, these visions could be, according to the beliefs of the time, conjured up by the devil, who they believed real.
@@petersinclair3997 No, don't think it is that, they had alternative models. And in mainstream-physics they even admit today that the heliocentric or rather the Copernican principle is adopted more for philosophical reasons as no observational experiment can be used to prove the earth's revolution around the sun, thus Einstein's special theory to explain it away.
I can hardly believe how dishonest religious people are, here they talk very fast and change the subject so quickly it is almost impossible to keep up with them. So I conclude they are afraid ! Afraid without an answer, Afraid without the courage to face the truth of our own mortality. Quite pathetic really...
this isn't an interview it's an interrogation why do they get annoyed at him for not agreeing with their views when they make no attempt to even consider his
Richard Dawkins' immense wisdom is reflected and enhanced by his incomparable patience and respect for people who unashamedly flaunt their ignorance in his presence. What an amazingly humble, respectful and wise man he is!!!
Also, it makes so much sence that I can not believe that anyone would not go along with Dawkins´ ideas. Eventually, how complex the theories of religious people may be, and how honest they are with it, it makes no sence. And you see that it makes no sence by even asking very simple questions, wich can´t be answered properly by religious people. And the disturbing thing is, that religious people are even comfortable with the idea of not knowing, and not have reasonable answers and are fine with it honestly. They keep the illusion alive.
chunkyfucker3 Good point.. they do appear sane in all other aspects of life except their religious beliefs.. but how they can look you right in the eye and say that the world was created in 7 days will always unnerve me.. familial religious indoctrination is a v strong influence on some people alright..
Patrick Ryan It is a bit disconcerting. I reckon it's just an absolute fear of the unknown. Like the fear of there being nothing after life. People feel like their consciousness has to go somewhere. My opinion is, death is just like going to sleep, or being a sperm, or being in the womb etc etc. We're no more aware at those times, than we are when we die. It's a comfort blanket to people afraid of death. I just think, it's exiting the "rat race". Eternal peace. The idea of a fantasy make belief world, where all the "good" people go when they die. I thought God loves everyone.... Is Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot in Heaven?
chunkyfucker3 It's funny you should say that death is like exiting the rat-race.. that is actually the basis of the Cathar religion that I'm v much interested in.. we believe that this material world is indeed hell.. and the spirit world is heaven.. and when you die you have a choice to either stay in heaven or be reincarnated back into hell here on earth.. the last Cathars were wiped out in the 13th century in the Albigensian crusades so I guess they were proven right.. I'm proud to say I'm a Cathar and I have no fear of death.. and our slogans are v catchy btw : ) this may be hell but the coffee is good.. this may be hell but the scenery isn't too bad.. this may be hell but you get a steak dinner now and again.. this may be hell but they do wonderful things with ice-cream.. : )
Patrick Ryan Yeah, I'm half thinking of formally leaving the Catholic Church. It has done some disgusting things in my country, and I don't really want to be associated with it anymore. I haven't attended mass in years, and never really liked doing so. Seems pointless to be part of a religion to me. I don't begrudge people their beliefs either, if it's what they want, and they don't harm people for those beliefs.
lol completely agree with Chuck H... this mans brilliant mind being hounded by a bunch of ppl with medieval mindsets. not only the audience if u read the messages from watchers on bottom of screen its like hitting a wall with these ppl geez
Have you seen Richards debate with that blonde American woman Wendy ? In comparison she made that audience look intellectual.At first I thought it was a send up . Do watch it, you really won't believe such a person exists,I was gobsmacked
Ridiculous how people think all faith is the same. Faith that my car will start and faith in Krishna are hardly equatable. These people are on a witch hunt. For fuck sake the guy was badgering him for his use of the word "probably". So desperate.
totally agree the only thing he could argue was his use of the word "probably" ffs he preys to a fukn fairy in the sky who loves us but if we dont be good he'll send us to eternal misery in the fires of hell!!! that's bribery to me and some fukn love,go up to a girl and say marry me or you'l burn in hell and see how far you get without been fukn arrested!
If you do a good deed off your own back ,that's a good thing. If you need a man in the sky who will torture you for eternity, to make you do good deeds ,you are a scared selfish person and it's not a good deed.
This is a good example,why Richard suffered a stroke, Heart attacks and strokes contributed to by tension and trying to deal with fools and Neanderthals
@Stacy Caruso But what more proof do you have of a God than of Santa, Its arguable but you tell a child that there is a Santa,to give it magical presents,and you know that a child will grow out of the belief with your approval ( very few young men of 50 still believe in Santa ) but you teach a child to believe in a God that you equally have no proof for, if the child isn't intelligent enough to grow out of the belief, it is stuck with this monster in the sky for life, even if the child does overcome the belief,and rejects it, they are sometimes then rejected by their parents, No child should be fed religion, let them make up their own mind when they come to the use of reason
I'm half English, half Irish but my ancestry probably originates fully from Ireland so, in a way, as well as having lived here since 2000, I agree with you totally.
Why is it that every time their is a debate between the religious & non religious, the non religious have to keep doing the proving? Surely the greater claim of a God (no matter his/her title) needs to show the proof. The onus is on the 'faithful'!
As an American, I feel heartened that Irish tv audiences are just as blinded by faith as my fundamentalist compatriots. I was tired of being from the only nation of knuckleheads.
Of all the passages to dispute, he pins his hopes on "very probable" in the speculation about other life in the universe? That's the best he comes up with? Dawkins is incredibly patient here.
Christians say they have evidence of a god but when asked what the evidence is, they just talk about faith and feelings. Someone needs to explain to Christians what the word “evidence” means.
And the disturbing thing is, that believers are honestly comfortable with not knowing, not have evidence and not having reasonable answers to critical questions. They are just fine with that. So basically, as they have accept their limitations on this subject, they have good reason to keep the illusions alive without the possibility that an atheist, or anyone with good scientific reasoning could get through. Also, atheist an scientists (wich are related much) often are accused of not have feelings and/or empathy, or even morals. That´s because they say things religious people don´t like. And we all know how religious people deal with things in life that they don´t like... those things do not exist for them. ;)
How many people believe in the tooth fairy,I would say little or none,so my question is why don't they believe in the tooth fairy and if the answer is because there is no evidence to suggest such a thing exists even though we have teeth,so why believe in god when there is no evidence that god exists even though we live on planet earth with all its wonders.that's as simple as I can put it.
"God changed my life, i was depressed and religion helped me out of it and that's my evidence that Christianity is true" "Alah changed my life, i was depressed and religion helped me out of it and that's my evidence that islam is true". If you believe one you must believe the other but the problem is those 2 religions are mutually exclusive. It kills me b3cause Richard is right when he says the moderate middle of the road theist that says faith is a virtue are paving the way for the fundamentalist nuts because it all boils down to faith.
Technically, they're both Abrahamic cults and hence believe in the same god..but the point still stands that they see little value or reason in analogies because they will dismiss parallel claims by rival religions and never apply that same mode of logic to their own. Pa-thetic..absolutely pitiful.
@@FactStorm Yes it's based off the same abrahmic god but the two religions worship it in different ways and believe different things about the god and in such a way that the religions are mutually exclusive. That is to say you cannot be a Muslim and a Christian. My point is that if you believe one for personal reasons being that it changed your life and helped you in some way then the same can be said of every religion and therefore you have to take every religion as true based off that logic but you can't because these 2 for example are mutually exclusive cos Islam says Christianity is false and Christianity says islam is false so there's a logical contradiction there. My point is believing something based off how it makes you feel is not a good way to separate fact from fiction.
On life on other planets: We have got it pretty nailed down to to be alive certain circumstances must be met. Planets that don't meet these requirements don't seem to have life, and the one that does is loaded with billions upon billions of lifeforms of all shapes and sizes. An important part of this is the sun. It's heat and light are CRUCIAL to our survival. Our sun is on of billions of stars, which in turn are surrounded by their own planets. there are so many that even if the odds are extremely low it is probable. Another way to think about this is if you lived on an isolated island, would you think it not likely there are other people or other islands? just because you don't believe in France doesn't mean France isn't there. A very important part of the disbelief in alien life is the term 'alien'. Alien just means 'not from here', other planets are alien, people in other countries are alien, in this context alien is in relation to our planet. When anyone hears the word they think of little green men from awful sci-fi movies and ignore the logic because they think it is silly.
Life on another planet can be nothing but moss that grows briefly for 1 season, or a planet with many complex forms that eventually consume all the resources of the planet necessary for their survival.
i have met so many people of one religion or another who have rammed their beliefs down the throats of others so much that when in you defend the argument of their being no god. They become more aggressive and domineering. I believe that's because they are afraid they are wrong. Some people need above all else that there is a god i suppose that's fine but just stop bible bashing please. Thanks.
What a cluster fudge of a discussion. There was so much potential in these questions, but Dawkins wasn’t permitted to answer due to the tirade of projected religious suspicions.
I am slowly coming to the conclusion that Richard Dawkins is one of the most patient people on the planet. He sits there being accused of intolerance whilst tolerating the scientific illiteracy of his accusers.
Were he religious he'd be a saint.
+Tell Max it concerns the Sandman hahaha I would get a lot more angry for sure! Look at the guy sitting next to Dawkins. He has his book, with 1000 bookmarks of places he has picked out, most likely in order to question him on it.
Not very fair that someone can know 1000 of your ideas and you know nothing about them and now you have to debate them. This shows the power of science. He doesn't need to pick at them. He can just use logic and science to answer the questions.
i agree. he has the patience to sit and listen to really dumb arguments and actually attempt to respond to them. if that was me in there i'd be like, "shut the fuck up with your stupidity!"
GreenDragonReprised agree; what gross and deliberate misinterpretations of Dawkins.
That he has a reputation for the opposite is increasingly shocking the more I listen to him and read his work.
@vljzlj I would say it's too small of a sample. You'd also have to put religious people in there to do the same game in order to actually form a conclusion about religion making people be good. Also "atheist" does not mean "not superstitious". Some atheists will believe in some crazy shit. Just because they don't believe in a god doesn't mean they'll be rational about everything else including ghosts.
> "but this one is just clearly showing that people need some for of God exist he or not, to 'watch over them' or else most of people would not have a 'moral' compass"
That's totally wrong. No one did what they did because they believed in a god. Heck it might have been a coincidence that any of them cheated. And even if it was because of a belief it was a belief in a ghost which is not a god.
How ironic that the guy at 2:03 who accuses Richard of being fundamentalist is clearly fundamentalist himself.
Listen to him talk - raving lunatic.
Considering that a fundamentalist is defined exactly how Richard said, just because the other person wants to redefine a word doesn't make it change.
They redefine words throughout the entire video, that's what you do when you don't understand the word's meaning. They argue the words they don't comprehend.
They don't look at themselves, and so when they look at someone else they see themselves.
My thoughts exactly. Looking at that face and listening to that diatribe of crap makes you wonder how long it will be until that nutcase grabs a gun and kills people for his "beliefs".
"As a young person" snort, that's wishful thinking mate!
Kitty McRatSlayer
Just because he looks like a killer doesn't make him a killer
I feel sorry for Richard a brilliant man surrounded by silly uneducated rocks. His patience is amazing I must say.
and I've been so inspired by it. The way he keeps his cool and explains and answer some seriously dumb questions over and over again! Rock solid patience. Something for me to learn for sure :)!
Well I feel sorry for the religious, not a lying humanist scumbag
Give me a break...he is not patient...he is an expert on everything...that is the problem....just a proud old prick.
Chuck Hammond
And yet Richard would have you believe we were formed from rocks with no intervention, it just happened, lmao 😂
@@johntatum1951 u re one of those rocks :)
I cringed at that woman shouting "Its a miracle".You can't reason with people like that.
Yeah, I know. Look at her face; she just give this out because she was surrounded with proper arguments from Dawkins and didn't have any chance to win.
"And if a hindu gets the exact same effect from Ganesh, is that a miracle?"
Thank you for writing that, because I had to watch it like five times at 5:22, and still couldn't figure out why she shouted "it's America!"..... Couldn't understand her. And when she says it, she has her arms crossed and a pissed look on her face. Happy times.
Her existence is itself a miracle
She simply doesn’t know better, and Dawkins turns her world upside down. It’s a defense mechanism.
Man he has balls. I love it. Going into to a room with a bunch of ignorant magic guy fans and he holds his cool in front of such stupidity. Class
It takes a lot of belief, to be trained to be Republican Irish twice.
Richard Dawkins; eternally patient genius.
@Michael Brown It looks like you trolled at least 60 threads now that I see all of these others.
@Michael Brown Lying about evolution and Dawkins will never prove anything.
It’s funny how much criticism richard gets for stating the obvious. This man is a national treasure
Make that a world treasure!
Really? I know these videos don't do him justice but few men on earth have a better grasp on logic than Gerard. If he were allowed to really talk Dawkins would've left crying
@@bradleymarshall5489 Logic that can explain why jesus is the correct god and allah, zeus, odin, ra, bamba, athena, etc. are fake?
Yes. That’s how logic works. It’s able to help make probability arguments and considering the logical arguments for Christianity between historicity surrounding Jesus, philosophical arguments for divine simplicity made by Christian theologians for quiet literally over 1000 years, and variety of other arguments made by other Catholic logicians like Casey, Aquinas, and more it is able to show why Christianity is far more likely to be true than any of those other religions.
“Well, I’m delighted for you but it doesn’t make it true!”
This upsets religious people because they hear it as belittling and see it as "He thinks he's better than me and that's not ok for him to think that".
@@jwb52z9 he is better than they are in nearly all regards.
He’s kinder, smarter, better educated, and more open to ideas.
"BuT yOu DoNt CaRe AbOuT hEr EvIdEnCe"
that guy in the khaki shirt must've had a few drinks lmao
Holy shit, that woman is batshit crazy..I actually feel sorry for her because she's an average Jane type..a good-hearted simpleton who uses emotion and intuition to come down to empirical conclusions about the nature of reality. She's so naive..bless her soul.
@@jwb52z9 That's the problem, they see everything as a provocation and attack..well, sticks and stone. In their case, at one point it was literally sticks and stones that they used to hurt the non-believer's bones..yet they cry wolf over scrutiny and mockery: insecure and deluded..what a combination!
Too much time spent on the audience, not enough time for Richard's response.
Justin Porteus , the audience are brilliant !! ua-cam.com/video/lGQ-nWOZrok/v-deo.html
@Michael Brown Just because you are too lazy and stupid to understand things does not mean they're incorrect or wrong.
@@aughalough1 In your mind maybe which by your own opinion is not a very brilliant one.
DerickE , Darwinist evangelist fundamentalists Richard Dawkins!!
@Michael Brown I fear you suffer from a gross misapprehension of what evangelists are, what a gospel is and what paganism is. All of this suggests that you - for some reason - believe that atheism is a religion. How can you possibly believe that you're able to add intellectual value to a conversation when you spit out nonsensical word salad? Who should want to listen to you speak?
Richard where do you get the strength to listen to countless stupid questions.
If you watch the oprah episode with dan barker in, the audience is much much worse.
Most of them don't believe in evolution, richard would have a brain hemorrhage listening to them.
Obviously, not from god. lol
it's how he makes a living...There's a fountaain of wealth that has given Richard faith in what he doth
If you're confused by that question, then you have no idea what he's actually doing in this video.
In all fairness I think it's almost impossible for people brought up to be immersed in popular culture, full of "no-go" zones on God and religion, for them to put together suitable questions for Professor Dawkins.
Poor Dawkins, having to put up with these people. He has a bottomless pit of patience.
You need it when you are dealing with people who have a bottomless pit of ignorance.
Dawkins is more of a hero every time he participates in a debate like this...His intelligence and patience with ignorance is so commendable.
The philosopher guy started off sounding reasonable and intelligent but showed his true, fundamental intellectual weakness when he kept needling Dawkins on the question of why alien life most probably exists. As Dawkins stated repeatedly, it's a speculation, of course he has no evidence of alien life, nobody does, but we know there are billions upon billions of planets in the universe and the universe has existed for billions of year it's perfectly reasonable to speculate that somewhere else in the universe there is or was or will be life. The religious just hate the idea that our planet may not be unique in the universe. In the entire vastness of the universe it seems God only likes one small tribe in the middle east.
+Kmeister I found that point interesting as well. The audience members bitch about him being close minded. Then when he speculates about intelligent life out there, they bitch about his evidence for it.
It makes no sense.
What an irony it would be however, if we found that out that we are really unique. That as we move out in to space, because the universe is so old, because we are late comers to the universe (2/3rds of the universe has existed before we even got here) because the distances are so far, that all we find is nothing or just long dead civilizations.
I feel that life must be abundant in the universe. But wouldn't it be ironic if we found that we were the only ones alive :)
+Kmeister This was an attempt to trap him, i.e. if aliens can exist with no evidence than so can a god.
Of course the kicker is that aliens don't have contradicting properties that make them impossible.
+Richard Gates Plus - nor has he categorically actually claimed they do exist. Just that they're more probable than improbable based on actual evidence. Just as any god is improbable based on a lack thereof when it comes to evidence and based on anything that's ever been discovered/written in terms of any god/religion.
man, that last exchange really bugged me. you don't need evidence for speculation. it's not like richard is saying life on other planets is a fact. that guy is dumb!
"i'm going to a party tonight. my friends are PROBABLY there already" i don't need any evidence for that. it's just speculation.
this really exemplifies the irrational thinking of these believers. their logic is really very different. science says 1+1=2. if their god says 1+1=3, they would believe that to be true no matter how illogical it is.
The only close minded people here are the ones who criticise the specualtion of alien life in the universe. For a start, humans are primarily made up of 4 of the 5 most abundant elements in the universe. In other words, there's a lot of Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen and Nitrogen out there. Additionally, many scientists believe based on the evidence that Mars was once suitable for life before Earth. That would mean that 2 planets within the Solar System have had conditions suitable for life. Bearing all of this in mind, it is extremely egocentric to suggest that we are alone and that nowhere else in the universe has had conditions which have led rise to life. That's without saying that organisms across the universe could have evolved in incomprehensible ways such that they are suited to environments that we would consider extreme. It is quite simple to see when looking at the arguments that for someone to speculate that there is alien life is the norm.
My allergy to theists is geting worst everytime i watch these kind of debates...
+Tiago Martinho Could not have put it better myself !!!
I have an allergy to humanists
@@orlansmith6230 That's ok. We will think for you while you pray for us.
Actually this guy was nice. But always the audience...
Tiago Martinho your profile tells me you need God.
The fact that he has to explain further after 1:30 is ridiculous
I'm Irish and I'm embarrassed by how close minded our nation seems to be
Dont be.
Ignorance is universal
Conor s is right unfortunately.
Watch the news in the last few weeks.
Religion is very hostile in ireland if im not mistaken. when i was there some guys had a fight on the street calling each other out for their religion.
Yeah, this is like THE MOST basic evolutionary concept, survivors genes thrive, ofc survivors "rebel" against death. Like please...
*seemed...hopefully...
That women who claimed her story as being a miracle is what's wrong with these people. I've come across people like her so many times. You are in a bad place and then religion helped you and it's a miracle is it? So it has nothing to do with you realizing the bad situation you are in and acting upon it by talking to whether it's psychologist or in her case a priest who gave her advise? People tend to give religion so much credit in cases like this without even realizing, it was them who did all the work to better themselves.How can anyone be this close minded? What about the thousands of people who committed suicide because of depression? Why didn't Jesus save them? Did they not deserve a miracle? What was so special about the lady in the crowd?
Agree completely. She was in a bad place, like everyone finds themselves in at one time or another and because she found a way out of it, it just has to be a miracle. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people around the world (men, women, children) suffer tremendously everyday, are starving, beaten, raped, exploited, tortured, neglected, treated like cattle and die alone and in agony (whether by their own hand or another) and nothing for them, but for this lady, a miracle. The height of human vanity and foolishness.
Matt Frati and many others on here, your logic gives me hope.
togce Precisely. People give very little credit to the power of their own mind and will at harnessing a positive energy/mindset in order to dig themselves out of the mental hole they find themselves in.
She reminds me of the mother who gave thanks to god for enabling her son to survive the Twin Towers attack. What about the three thousand who perished?
I've heard at least one fundamentalist Muslim tell of how Allah brought him from a bad path and into the Truth and a life worth living.
2:27 "As a young person coping with the complexity of life?" Dude, you're forty.
Dawkins must have the most frustrating job on the planet. Theres no reasoning with these vegetables
Recovering theist here (like recovering alcoholic :P). I myself, looking back often ask, "How did I fall for that religious crap to begin with?" And the only answer I can come up with is that I didn't know better. See Richard Dawkins' point about religious indoctrination. We are taught that the Bible is true, and that if anybody says contrary that it's a lie, so you shouldn't believe them. It took scientific evidence to knock me from religion's grasp.
**Edit: see childhood indoctrination.**
same here. if there is a god, why did he create such morons?
bob salmon Veggie Tales?!
bob salmon, yeah they may be vegetables but they nourish you and Dawkins and they also help you stay alive.
@@thekhasi4823 As history has shown us countless times, religion is not strictly synonymous with morality and compassion, nor is atheism a lack thereof.
There are many holy books, many religions and many proposed gods.
It's a bit like the washing powder aisle in the supermarket.
They all wash whiter than white.
Maybe I should pick the one my mother used ?
Τhis man's capacity for expaining his arguments to the ignorant, small-minded religion-stricken imbeciles is truly remarkable. I would have lost my shit at least three times in this clip. Dawkins is an excpetional thinker, converstationalist, writter and scientist.
Ha ha
Dawkins is a fibber and an ignorant parasite!!!
@@orlansmith6230 And you're a rocket scientist.
@@orlansmith6230 Poor trolling there mate.
Right, like you'd ever be surrounded by a room full of curious minds waiting to hear your next thought. It's been 6 years since you typed 'writter' and you still haven't corrected your grammar error. You're aware they made spellcheck for people like you, right?
Audience: you won't accept the evidence
Dawkins: show me the evidence
Audience: we haven't got any but if we did you wouldn't accept it
this is quite literally their argument
Better than any superhero movie ever. This was real. A true Good Guy surrounded by evil, calculating villains.
5:18..."IT'S A MIRACLE!!" LMAO love that
"It's a rhetorical device", "Well don't use it then", so the ex-atheist is rude when he loses an argument
These people just don't get it: Yes, the process of evolution can be cruel. But to believe in evolution is not to embrace cruelty. Evolution gave us a liking for the flesh of other animals, but we can ignore that and go vegan. Evolution gave us violent tendencies, but we can tame them. Evolution gave us a desire to mate often, and have many children, but we can limit family size voluntarily, and most folks do. I don't like that there are animals that would like to kill and eat me. I don't like that there are pathogens and parasites that want to infect and infest me. But I'm not going to deny those things because it "feels wrong."
Brilliantly put, Deacon!
this is nice. well said.
This comment deserves to be higher up.
evolution gave rise to intelligence also so you could say its a self repairing kind of thing.
If I lived completely by logic and math and science, I would advocate for the elimination/breeding out of human emotion from the species and/or simply ending the species once and for all.
Two greatest crimes of religion against society:
1) Terrifying small children they could burn in Hell for eternity (=psychological child abuse)
2) The foisting on desperate credulous people the false promise of eternal life
Tragically and legendarily sad
I'm pretty sure there's worse things they did to small children
This audience deserved Hitchens instead of Dawkins.
My thoughts exactly. Richard was too nice!!
He would have hitch slapped these cretins
Hermes Mercury- especially the bald-headed prick with the glasses. What an obnoxious, insufferable and overbearing cunt.
Your anwers just pathetic just insults lol
Yes, but they might have killed him. They have before with the wrong type of believer.
I’m sorry to be so harsh but,
Fucking idiots.
If you could reason with people of faith, there would be no people of faith
I used to perceive Richard Dawkins as intolerant of the religious but after watching this talk I have completely changed my mind. He shows great restraint and sympathy for the people who express their faith. And as to the point of there probably being alien beings beyond our ability to imagine them, that's simple maths. It's more likely than not that there are other sentient beings in the universe just on the basis of numbers. If people from a million years ago encountered their modern descendents (us), we would appear godlike and alien with marvelous supernatural powers.
''I was depressed and someone told me that there's actually a magical man in the sky and he love me very much and that made me happy again...IT'S A MIRACLE!!!''.....LOL seems like an irrefutable argument to me
Richard Dawkins has incredible patience.
He always has a complete panel and audience against him.. so amazing
Richard Dawkins is a true hero for standing up against religion. I mean, he doesn't need to. He'd be perfectly happy doing science and scientific research, but he does it for the sake of humanity and that is admirable.
"YOU'RE REJECTING HER EVIDENCE!" lmao
The guy at 0:40 kills me! His proof that there is a god is because we feel that death is wrong? What species would survive long if it didn't have a strong drive to live and an advertion to death? How long would gazelles be on this planet if they didn't care enough about living or dying that they just ignored the lion charging at them?...
“Do you think the universe ooowweess you hope” This man is a prophet
I love Dr Dawkins....everything he says ...I wish these people would just listen and yes he is a most patient man
Love Richard Dawkins!!!!
Most of this was basically about semantics, the audience were misinterpreting the word faith and applying it wrongly to what Dawkins was saying. That point at the very end about having no evidence for 'probable' life was just embarassing. Poor Richard
Only to himself when he realized he had lost all credibility to his stupid beliefs. Was an atheist? Nah! Just a Christian way of wanting to not look and appear stupid.
Equivocation fallacy, one of many the religious engage in. The definition of faith always comes into question, whereby they employ the classic "we have trust in something", rather than belief in something without evidence. A game of charades with simpletons..
The man is articulate, intelligent, clear and a real truth seeker, there is only one Pat Kenny
wow the in-video comments are so stupid my brain bleeds.
Dawkins is right as usual.
I liked the way Dawkins was shut down at the end
That was incredibly annoying. Copernicus, Gallileo and countless others spent their lives confronted with the same sort of willful, belligerent ignorance in their day, albeit at some risk to their lives. The featured audience members were exactly the same sort of individuals that in ages not too far past would have happily burned or stoned Dawkins to death for challenging their ignorance.
Led by that shouty northern Irish twat, no doubt, and exonerated and declared righteous by the someone exactly like Casey under the premise that 'it was for Dawkin's own good'.
Copernicus and Galileo were both religious and scientists by the way, not atheists, just as Kepler, Newton, Bacon et al were religious too, with rational belief in God. It is in fact atheism which has no evidence to support it...
colin5577 In The case of Gallileo, the case is extreme, because the clergy would have believed Galileo was telling the truth about what he saw, only that he was being visually deceived by the devil.
@@petersinclair3997 All the proofs that Galileo used are now rejected by mainstream secular-science.
Zayd Depaor Thanks. Doesn’t surprise me, as calculus had not been developed to explain movement. Besides, regards the heliocentric solar system, Galileo wasn’t initiating theory, rather reporting on observations to confirm Copernicus. I don’t know if Galileo knew of Ptolemy. Modern science has also degraded to Newton. The problem for Galileo was his Natural Philosophy was opposed to Church teachings, where the realm of outer space was mystical. Though the moons circling Jupiter could be observed, these visions could be, according to the beliefs of the time, conjured up by the devil, who they believed real.
@@petersinclair3997 No, don't think it is that, they had alternative models. And in mainstream-physics they even admit today that the heliocentric or rather the Copernican principle is adopted more for philosophical reasons as no observational experiment can be used to prove the earth's revolution around the sun, thus Einstein's special theory to explain it away.
Almost man alone against overwhelming majority of idiots well done Richard Dawkins
“It’s a miracle” discussion over🤨
I can hardly believe how dishonest religious people are, here they talk very fast and change the subject so quickly it is almost impossible to keep up with them.
So I conclude they are afraid !
Afraid without an answer,
Afraid without the courage to face the truth of our own mortality.
Quite pathetic really...
When people are afraid, insecure and ignorant they talk non-stop and become loud. A characteristic sorry to say that most religious people have.
this isn't an interview it's an interrogation
why do they get annoyed at him for not agreeing with their views when they make no attempt to even consider his
8:04 "Well don't use it then"- what the theist guy did with his brain
Richard Dawkins' immense wisdom is reflected and enhanced by his incomparable patience and respect for people who unashamedly flaunt their ignorance in his presence. What an amazingly humble, respectful and wise man he is!!!
That is the single most perfect statement i have ever heard. Indicative almost of something he would say.
I love you Richard, you're the champion of reason!
Also, it makes so much sence that I can not believe that anyone would not go along with Dawkins´ ideas. Eventually, how complex the theories of religious people may be, and how honest they are with it, it makes no sence. And you see that it makes no sence by even asking very simple questions, wich can´t be answered properly by religious people. And the disturbing thing is, that religious people are even comfortable with the idea of not knowing, and not have reasonable answers and are fine with it honestly. They keep the illusion alive.
I was embarrassed as an Irishman when the crowd started to applaud the point that other guy made about the Aliens.
Stupid people can only understand other stupid people. One work of high vocabulary and they're FUCKED!
Me too I'm Irish, they wasted an hour of a brilliant mans life
They appear sane and lucid and can look you in the eye but these religious types are psychotic..
Patrick Ryan Not psychotic.... brainwashed, would be a better term I think. You are born into your religion after all.
chunkyfucker3 Good point.. they do appear sane in all other aspects of life except their religious beliefs.. but how they can look you right in the eye and say that the world was created in 7 days will always unnerve me.. familial religious indoctrination is a v strong influence on some people alright..
Patrick Ryan It is a bit disconcerting. I reckon it's just an absolute fear of the unknown. Like the fear of there being nothing after life. People feel like their consciousness has to go somewhere.
My opinion is, death is just like going to sleep, or being a sperm, or being in the womb etc etc. We're no more aware at those times, than we are when we die.
It's a comfort blanket to people afraid of death. I just think, it's exiting the "rat race". Eternal peace.
The idea of a fantasy make belief world, where all the "good" people go when they die.
I thought God loves everyone.... Is Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot in Heaven?
chunkyfucker3 It's funny you should say that death is like exiting the rat-race.. that is actually the basis of the Cathar religion that I'm v much interested in.. we believe that this material world is indeed hell.. and the spirit world is heaven.. and when you die you have a choice to either stay in heaven or be reincarnated back into hell here on earth.. the last Cathars were wiped out in the 13th century in the Albigensian crusades so I guess they were proven right.. I'm proud to say I'm a Cathar and I have no fear of death.. and our slogans are v catchy btw : )
this may be hell but the coffee is good..
this may be hell but the scenery isn't too bad..
this may be hell but you get a steak dinner now and again..
this may be hell but they do wonderful things with ice-cream.. : )
Patrick Ryan Yeah, I'm half thinking of formally leaving the Catholic Church. It has done some disgusting things in my country, and I don't really want to be associated with it anymore.
I haven't attended mass in years, and never really liked doing so. Seems pointless to be part of a religion to me.
I don't begrudge people their beliefs either, if it's what they want, and they don't harm people for those beliefs.
Dawkins has the 'Patience of Job'!!
IT'S A MIRACLE!
lol completely agree with Chuck H... this mans brilliant mind being hounded by a bunch of ppl with medieval mindsets. not only the audience if u read the messages from watchers on bottom of screen its like hitting a wall with these ppl geez
Pardon my expression but he is a god damn saint that man, I would've gone mad if I were stuck with these people
Have you seen Richards debate with that blonde American woman Wendy ? In comparison she made that audience look intellectual.At first I thought it was a send up . Do watch it, you really won't believe such a person exists,I was gobsmacked
humanity does NOT need a supernatural being for anything. period
I work night shifts and this video really helps me sleep time and time again😊
Ridiculous how people think all faith is the same. Faith that my car will start and faith in Krishna are hardly equatable. These people are on a witch hunt. For fuck sake the guy was badgering him for his use of the word "probably". So desperate.
totally agree the only thing he could argue was his use of the word "probably" ffs he preys to a fukn fairy in the sky who loves us but if we dont be good he'll send us to eternal misery in the fires of hell!!! that's bribery to me and some fukn love,go up to a girl and say marry me or you'l burn in hell and see how far you get without been fukn arrested!
"I was miserable and became happy its a miracle" you have to wonder what her IQ is😆
"You cannot be serious!" HAHA I love Richard. So so patient...godlike, the Irish would say. lol.
Love listening to Richard 💖
If you do a good deed off your own back ,that's a good thing. If you need a man in the sky who will torture you for eternity, to make you do good deeds ,you are a scared selfish person and it's not a good deed.
This is a good example of Richard Dawkins in the lion's den
This is a good example,why Richard suffered a stroke, Heart attacks and strokes contributed to by tension and trying to deal with fools and Neanderthals
@Stacy Caruso But what more proof do you have of a God than of Santa, Its arguable but you tell a child that there is a Santa,to give it magical presents,and you know that a child will grow out of the belief with your approval ( very few young men of 50 still believe in Santa ) but you teach a child to believe in a God that you equally have no proof for, if the child isn't intelligent enough to grow out of the belief, it is stuck with this monster in the sky for life, even if the child does overcome the belief,and rejects it, they are sometimes then rejected by their parents, No child should be fed religion, let them make up their own mind when they come to the use of reason
LOL@the "it's a miracle!" comment. Perfect usage of Occam's razor right there. ;)
RD is unique & a brilliant genius. He had freed so many people from religious superstition. Mental freedom is the best.
The hostility and comments from the buffoons in the audience ……. speechless
Richards opponent clutching at straws at the end there. Fool
danb3e3
No but you have to admit it was a good shutdown, and one that deserved applause from the audience.
i wish they'd let Richard answer the questions asked instead of changing the subject 20 seconds in conversation
All participants were able to clearly make their points without being disrespectful. A very interesting conversation and dialogue.
Looking at the texts and listening to the audience, I'm embarrassed to be from this country
I'm half English, half Irish but my ancestry probably originates fully from Ireland so, in a way, as well as having lived here since 2000, I agree with you totally.
Me too but you cannot argue with a religious fanatic
Why is it that every time their is a debate between the religious & non religious, the non religious have to keep doing the proving? Surely the greater claim of a God (no matter his/her title) needs to show the proof. The onus is on the 'faithful'!
As an American, I feel heartened that Irish tv audiences are just as blinded by faith as my fundamentalist compatriots. I was tired of being from the only nation of knuckleheads.
I almost thought for a second the other guy might be smart too then he took that quote completely wrong from the book
A lifetime of genius work is not sufficient enough to break the stupidity of several millennia...that's the power of meme.
Such an excellent an respectful discussion, I loved it.
That guy at 2:01 is on the verge of a nervous breakdown lol
Of all the passages to dispute, he pins his hopes on "very probable" in the speculation about other life in the universe? That's the best he comes up with? Dawkins is incredibly patient here.
Christians say they have evidence of a god but when asked what the evidence is, they just talk about faith and feelings. Someone needs to explain to Christians what the word “evidence” means.
And the disturbing thing is, that believers are honestly comfortable with not knowing, not have evidence and not having reasonable answers to critical questions. They are just fine with that. So basically, as they have accept their limitations on this subject, they have good reason to keep the illusions alive without the possibility that an atheist, or anyone with good scientific reasoning could get through. Also, atheist an scientists (wich are related much) often are accused of not have feelings and/or empathy, or even morals. That´s because they say things religious people don´t like. And we all know how religious people deal with things in life that they don´t like... those things do not exist for them. ;)
@@bastiaanvanbeek "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
- Richard Dawkins
I've never seen a more biased and close minded audience for anything in my life!
A good discussion, amusingly brought down to Earth with the host announcing a Jungle Book quiz winner
Carl Sagan was the Eyes, Richard Dawkins is the Brain and Christopher Hitchens was the Sword...
How many people believe in the tooth fairy,I would say little or none,so my question is why don't they believe in the tooth fairy and if the answer is because there is no evidence to suggest such a thing exists even though we have teeth,so why believe in god when there is no evidence that god exists even though we live on planet earth with all its wonders.that's as simple as I can put it.
I used to be religious ( now an ex-muslim). When I listen to religious people I ask myself : Was I also once that stupid when I was still religious?
Good for you mate. That must have taken a great deal of bravery for you. Respect.
@Michael Brown Lol you're always showing up on religious videos with your laughable skydaddy fueled comments. Please grow up. ☼ #butthurt
I had the misfortune of being raised Catholic. I ask myself the same questions.
You know you are the boss when the whole room is against you.
5:51, I understand his frustration and highly respect him for his reaction.
Another good clip from the great Prof Richard Dawkins ! thanks for uploading ! *******Pdh
"God changed my life, i was depressed and religion helped me out of it and that's my evidence that Christianity is true"
"Alah changed my life, i was depressed and religion helped me out of it and that's my evidence that islam is true".
If you believe one you must believe the other but the problem is those 2 religions are mutually exclusive. It kills me b3cause Richard is right when he says the moderate middle of the road theist that says faith is a virtue are paving the way for the fundamentalist nuts because it all boils down to faith.
Technically, they're both Abrahamic cults and hence believe in the same god..but the point still stands that they see little value or reason in analogies because they will dismiss parallel claims by rival religions and never apply that same mode of logic to their own. Pa-thetic..absolutely pitiful.
@@FactStorm Yes it's based off the same abrahmic god but the two religions worship it in different ways and believe different things about the god and in such a way that the religions are mutually exclusive. That is to say you cannot be a Muslim and a Christian. My point is that if you believe one for personal reasons being that it changed your life and helped you in some way then the same can be said of every religion and therefore you have to take every religion as true based off that logic but you can't because these 2 for example are mutually exclusive cos Islam says Christianity is false and Christianity says islam is false so there's a logical contradiction there. My point is believing something based off how it makes you feel is not a good way to separate fact from fiction.
oh richard you,re so so so patient, ah how does he do it, im shocked that these views are still so previlent in ireland, actually its sad.
He is just incredible.
On life on other planets:
We have got it pretty nailed down to to be alive certain circumstances must be met. Planets that don't meet these requirements don't seem to have life, and the one that does is loaded with billions upon billions of lifeforms of all shapes and sizes.
An important part of this is the sun. It's heat and light are CRUCIAL to our survival. Our sun is on of billions of stars, which in turn are surrounded by their own planets. there are so many that even if the odds are extremely low it is probable.
Another way to think about this is if you lived on an isolated island, would you think it not likely there are other people or other islands? just because you don't believe in France doesn't mean France isn't there.
A very important part of the disbelief in alien life is the term 'alien'. Alien just means 'not from here', other planets are alien, people in other countries are alien, in this context alien is in relation to our planet. When anyone hears the word they think of little green men from awful sci-fi movies and ignore the logic because they think it is silly.
Life on another planet can be nothing but moss that grows briefly for 1 season, or a planet with many complex forms that eventually consume all the resources of the planet necessary for their survival.
Dawkins has to defend the phrase , "most probably". Religious people mite not wanna draw attention to things in books about belief.
Oh Poor Richard dealing with Idiots yet again only this one next to him on the dais!!
"God put eternity in our heart"
WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL IS BALOO?
Not sure think he is a tiger,hope this helps, but could be wrong
i have met so many people of one religion or another who have rammed their beliefs down the throats of others so much that when in you defend the argument of their being no god. They become more aggressive and domineering. I believe that's because they are afraid they are wrong. Some people need above all else that there is a god i suppose that's fine but just stop bible bashing please. Thanks.
What a cluster fudge of a discussion. There was so much potential in these questions, but Dawkins wasn’t permitted to answer due to the tirade of projected religious suspicions.
As an Irish Atheist, you hit the nail on the head!
Richard Dawkins said in a book that the existence of life on other planets was "very probable". Therefore, God exists.
Um.. what??? Moron 😂
@ady nails hahaha legend
"As a young man" - just another one of your delusional beliefs.
Nice one. I like your comment a lot.
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They should ask their god for a brain. Failing that, they could ask the wizard.
8:13, most accurate subtitles. good job youtube.