Björn Ulvaeus meets Richard Dawkins
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- Author, ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is world-renowned for his energetic participation in debates on religion, science and culture. The book "The Fight Against Illusions" revolves around the second half of his eventful life and touches on his encounters and experiences related to science and research. Here he meets Björn Ulvaeus in a conversation about his life on the front lines of research and about his fight against superstition and delusions.
Moderator: Björn Ulvaeus. Recorded on December 12, 2015 at Cirkus in Stockholm. Organizer: Fri Tanke publishing house and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
In Swedish:
Författaren, etologen och evolutionsbiologen Richard Dawkins är världskänd för sitt energiska deltagande i debatter om religion, vetenskap och kultur. Boken ”Kampen mot illusionerna” kretsar kring andra hälften av hans händelserika liv och berör hans möten och upplevelser kopplade till vetenskap och forskning. Här möter han Björn Ulvaeus i ett samtal om sitt liv vid forskningens frontlinjer och om sin kamp mot vidskepelse och villfarelser.
Moderator: Björn Ulvaeus. Inspelat den 12 december 2015 på Cirkus i Stockholm. Arrangör: Fri Tanke förlag och Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien.
So nice to see Mr Dawkins so fit and sharp. May he live many years still.
Fit and sharp certainly, however, remember this was recorded in 2015, before his mild stroke.
@@andrewmorton3344 ah yes, you are right. Forgot.
His mom is still alive!
N as far as I can tell he recovered from his stroke very rapidly
@@isidoreaerys8745 no his mother is a long time dead now
Great interview. Thank you 🌟
Wow! Five minutes into the program and already I would love to go to Sweeden. What beautiful people. Hello from Australia.
As a Dane I ofcourse hate the Sweedes but I have to agree with you, nobody else could have done an interview as well as that with Richard Dawkins, credit where credit is due.
I guess I am an ignorant American who a.) didn't know "Sweden" could be spelled "Sweeden," and b.) has no idea why it should obvious that Danes hate Swedes. You learn something new every day!
@@billscannell93 It is a historic thing, Denmark and Sweden have spend more years on more or less a war footing with eachother than the USA have been a thing.
@@MrSigmatico Danes hate Swedes, but Brits don't hate Danes even though your ancestors fucked us. Explain that.
This is great. Fit perfect with the ABBA revival. 😀🖖🙂👍
A well done interview, enjoyable and informative.
The only way religion can survive is through passing down from parents to Children. Also, that's the same reason why it has become an identity, thus considered as offensive to criticize.
The only solution to this problem is to prevent that 'default inheritance by birth' from parents to children.
In the comprehensive school curriculum, add to the part that deals with knowledge about religion, conclusions about the devastating damage to the human intellect and our sanity religion has dealt. Also include in the value system of all educational institutions, the denunciation of holding religious claims for true in a factual sense.
Thanks a lot
If you want to see Bjorn in a different light, go watch Abba's "Does your mother know?".
Very good 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Dear Dr, Howkins, Have you ever read anything about the "Some answered Questions " of Abdul Baha- answering the Questions of Lady Cliford Barni, or the book of " Certitude " by Bahaullah. or the Poetry of RUMI: from more than 1000 years ago, who is referring to the existence starting from Soil. wind or fire? some how closer to Evolution.??Why not?
Excellent talk. I'm not sure Life of Brian could be made today, actually, too "offensive" sadly. D.A., J.D., NYC
The Movie you mentioned about ISLAM is being made now by the youth of IRAN, started 180-300 years ago, but it is so strange that the feeling and thinking of superiority ,cultural Gap and racial & cultural difference made it difficult to see hear or feel, so it needs very sharp eyes, ears, ..senses and emotional intelligent to see and feel...
I love these kind of intelligent discussions. I am generally interested in science. But, I am also a spiritual person, and see no real conflict in believing in both "sides".
Above being interested in science, or being spiritual .. one should always strive to be rational and critical in thinking. Because we are by nature, not rational.
@@sagarvyas3638 is there a universal rationality? Is it not the case that at the particles level rationality becomes irrational as demonstrated by the slit experiment?
@@kama4581 true. The only way for anything to be, or mean universally true, would be if every thinking agent interested would agree to it.
Correction of spelling is for Dr. Dawkins from previous note, i have seen you tubes about the superstitions of All religions under the name :PARSA IRANI, should you be able to translate from Persian. about all including ISLAM.
DO you see yourself foremost as a scientist or author nowadays?
As a scientist
Lower left corner showing his credentials almost simultaneously of Dawkins mentions: Författare = author..
To get a PHD you have to do a masters and to do a masters you have to teach, now the reason you have to teach to get a masters is that you learn more from teaching others than you do from being tought yourself, so it seems only logical to me to deduce that whriting books for the lay person about science is science in and of itself because not only is it going to teach the whriter but it will also teach the reader and you do not get much more bang for your buck than that do you?
I agree with you that much of teaching is self-education, because you must become very familiar with the information, and have it organized in a way that makes sense to YOU.
I don't recall Dawk telling us covid19 was going to happen
Why would he?
@@MrSigmatico Because he insists that science is truth.
@@splinterbyrd It can not see the future, not following your thinking here.
@@MrSigmatico Dawk should acknowledge that he doesn't know everything.
@@splinterbyrd Lol I think you will find that he says I do not know regularly.