Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

A British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
 
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Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 169 Comments: 0 The Root of All Evil? Part 2: The Virus of Faith The Root of All Evil? Part 2: The Virus of Faith In The Virus of Faith, Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children. The title of this episode comes from The Selfish Gene, in which Dawkins discussed the concept of memes. The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy. His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous. Dawkins's book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. User: Typo Jul 14, 2008 10:32 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 630 Comments: 0 Break The Science Barrier Break The Science Barrier Originally broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 in 1996 and RT 50:52, 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. Science is useful but that is not all it is. Science can be uplifting, thrilling, life-enhancing. User: spam_vigilante Jul 11, 2008 4:24 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 418 Comments: 0 Richard Dawkins Public Lecture: Liverpool 08 Richard Dawkins Public Lecture: Liverpool 08 Richard Dawkins' public lecture at the University of Liverpool on his book 'The God Delusion'. Date: Monday 25th February 2008 RT: 1:35:57 Jun 23, 2008 12:51 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: No Votes Hits: 26 Comments: 0 Charlie Rose: Remnick & Dawkins Charlie Rose: Remnick & Dawkins Charlie Rose interviews David Remnick (American journalist, writer, and magazine editor) & Richard Dawkins (British ethologist, evolutionary scientist, and popular science writer). The Dawkins interview starts at 26:30. User: White_Wolf Jun 21, 2008 12:42 PM
Headline Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Amazing Hits: 1670 Comments: 13 Top 80 Best Short Atheist Quotes Top 80 Best Short Atheist Quotes A collection of great quotes from people such as Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Richard Dawkins, and Gandhi. Some other famous quotes (on the same subject): Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. (Christopher Hitchens) I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. (Bertrand Russell) You are a good person because you fear damnation. I am a good person without obligation. (Guillermo Garcia) Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. (Mencken) It is wrong always and everywhere for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence. (William Clifford) I used to believe in God, until I reached the age of reason. (George Carlin) If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. (Woody Allen) Our god is vengeful! Oh spiteful one, show me who to smite and they shall be smoten. (Homer Simpson) Dear lord: I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done. (Homer Simpson) Blasphemy is a victimless crime. (Unknown) God is dead! (Friedrich Nietzsche) User: White_Wolf May 29, 2008 7:23 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 200 Comments: 0 Dawkins Presenting Daniel Dennett the Richard Dawkins Award Dawkins Presenting Daniel Dennett the Richard Dawkins Award Speech in honour of Dan Dennett, presenting him with the Richard Dawkins Award for 2007 at the Crystal City conference of the Atheist Alliance International. Dan Dennett is a year younger than me, almost to the day. But I must admit that I have grown to think of him as a sort of intellectual elder brother. Since the deaths of Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, I have been rather short of intellectual heroes to consult on difficult questions. Thank goodness we still have Dan Dennett. A year or so ago, it seemed that it might be a close run thing. I remember the shock followed by deep gloom that was cast over a large group of people in a New York theatre, when we were informed that Dan had collapsed and was undergoing emergency surgery which seemed - or so we were informed - unlikely to succeed. Heroic surgery to save an intellectual hero, not just a national treasure but a world treasure, at least to the world of the mind. Many of you will have read the stirring testimonial that he wrote while he was in recovery. Actually called 'Thank Goodness'. It was widely published all over the internet, and was read out to those gathered in San Diego for the Beyond Belief conference. In it Dan mentioned his religious friends who had prayed for his recovery. He was touched by their efforts on his behalf, and he chose to interpret their words as meaning that they had been thinking of him. But he added: I am not joking when I say that I have had to forgive my friends who said that they were PRAYING for me. I have resisted the temptation to respond "Thanks, I appreciate it, but did you also sacrifice a goat?" I feel about this the same way I would feel if one of them said "I just paid a voodoo doctor to cast a spell for your health." What a gullible waste of money that could have been spent on more important projects! Don't expect me to be grateful, or even indifferent. I do appreciate the affection and generosity of spirit that motivated you, but wish you had found a more reasonable way of expressing it. Dan considered the impulse he might have felt to say 'Thank God' for his recovery. He asked himself whether his near death experience had been some kind of epiphany. I find his response to this so stirring that I again want to read it out: Yes, I did have an epiphany. I saw with greater clarity than ever before in my life that when I say "Thank goodness!" this is not merely a euphemism for "Thank God!" (We atheists don't believe that there is any God to thank.) I really do mean THANK GOODNESS! There is a lot of goodness in this world, and more goodness every day, and this fantastic human-made fabric of excellence is genuinely responsible for the fact that I am alive today. It is a worthy recipient of the gratitude I feel today, and I want to celebrate that fact here and now. To whom, then, do I owe a debt of gratitude? To the cardiologist who has kept me alive and ticking for years, and who swiftly and confidently rejected the original diagnosis of nothing worse than pneumonia. To the surgeons, neurologists, anesthesiologists, and the perfusionist, who kept my systems going for many hours under daunting circumstances. To the dozen or so physician assistants, and to nurses and physical therapists and x-ray technicians and a small army of phlebotomists so deft that you hardly know they are drawing your blood, and the people who brought the meals, kept my room clean, did the mountains of laundry generated by such a messy case, wheel-chaired me to x-ray, and so forth. These people came from Uganda, Kenya, Liberia, Haiti, the Philippines, Croatia, Russia, China, Korea, India - and the United States, of course - and I have never seen more impressive mutual respect, as they helped each other out and checked each other's work. But for all their teamwork, this local gang could not have done their jobs without the huge background of contributions from others. I remember with gratitude my late friend and Tufts colleague, physicist Allan Cormack, who shared the Nobel Prize for his invention of the c-t scanner. Allan - you have posthumously saved yet another life, but who's counting? The world is better for the work you did. Thank goodness. Then there is the whole system of medicine, both the science and the technology, without which the best-intentioned efforts of individuals would be roughly useless. So I am grateful to the editorial boards and referees, past and present, of Science, Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, and all the other institutions of science and medicine that keep churning out improvements, detecting and correcting flaws. I think you can see why Dan Dennett is my intellectual hero. May 15, 2008 2:55 PM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 563 Comments: 4 Richard Dawkins: Thomas Aquinas' 'proofs' Richard Dawkins: Thomas Aquinas' 'proofs' Excerpts from Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion", chapter 3, Arguments for God's existence read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward May 14, 2008 12:43 AM
Headline Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Amazing Hits: 833 Comments: 1 Richard Dawkins: Unintelligent Design Richard Dawkins: Unintelligent Design Many religious people are very fond of saying that God works in mysterious ways. These ways must be very mysterious indeed, for why would God create both the Cheetah and the Gazelle? Do you think God likes to watch games of life and death from His, Her, or Its comfy throne up in Heaven? And why would God ever dare to design flawed eyes? Maybe Heaven was struck by a Heavenquake and God's pencil made some strange detours? User: White_Wolf May 6, 2008 11:24 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 693 Comments: 12 Richard Dawkins: Why the Campaign Against Religion? Richard Dawkins: Why the Campaign Against Religion? What does Richard Dawkins have against religion? User: Griff May 6, 2008 1:23 AM
Headline Tag: Risque Rating: Good Hits: 449 Comments: 0 Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed Anticipating success with their feature film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser trailer for the film's sequel. Their "teach the controversy" slogan seemed to work well in getting the general public to believe that Intelligent Design is a viable alternative scientific theory to Evolution, so the team has moved on to promoting other theories that they feel are being suppressed by the scientific community. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed tells of how Sex Theory has thrived unchallenged in the ivory towers of academia, as the explanation for how new babies are created. Proponents of Stork Theory claim that "Big Sex" has been suppressing their claim that babies are delivered by storks. Furthermore, Stork Theory proponents warn of the serious moral dangers posed by teaching children that sex has a function. They point out that evil dictators such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao all believed in Sex Theory, and they may have even had sex themselves. User: Dosetaker Apr 18, 2008 5:23 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 388 Comments: 0 Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss sat down for a public discussion at Stanford University on Sunday, March 9th 2008. The focus was on Science education, but the discussion also covered religion, physics, evolution and more. User: Dosetaker Apr 16, 2008 5:52 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 404 Comments: 1 Bill Maher: Richard Dawkins Bill Maher: Richard Dawkins Bill Maher interviews Richard Dawkins. From April 11, 2008. User: Dosetaker Apr 13, 2008 8:32 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 47 Comments: 0 The Hour - Richard Dawkins Part 2 The Hour - Richard Dawkins Part 2 The Hour's George Stroumboulopoulos interviews Richard Dawkins - author of "The God Delusion". Part 2 of 2 RT: 4:41 User: Shiggety Apr 3, 2008 4:20 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 66 Comments: 1 The Hour - Richard Dawkins Part 1 The Hour - Richard Dawkins Part 1 The Hour's George Stroumboulopoulos interviews Richard Dawkins - author of "The God Delusion". Part 1 of 2 RT: 9:39 User: Shiggety Apr 3, 2008 4:18 PM
Headline Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 986 Comments: 7 Dawkins & Attenborough: Evolution of Wings Dawkins & Attenborough: Evolution of Wings Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir David Attenborough explain the evolution of the wing. Dawkins does so in response to Creationists' claims that there's no such thing as evolution. User: White_Wolf Apr 3, 2008 5:02 AM
 
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