The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
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Richard Baffled by ‘Spiritual Environmentalists’ Word Salad!
Satish Kumar was one of those I interviewed for my Channel 4 documentary, ‘Enemies of Reason.’ He began by telling a nice story about Bertrand Russell, whom he met as a young man and who supported him. We moved on to holism, which seemed harmless enough, but as the interview wore on, he became more and more mystical, culminating in the treeness of trees, I couldn't help wondering what Bertrand Russell would have said.
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Woke Racism Defies Logic!
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I have long wanted to meet John McWhorter. He’s an extremely well-known public intellectual and opinion leader who, in my opinion, always talks sense. I have this rather eccentric idea that before becoming a public intellectual, you need to earn your credentials by having something important and interesting to be intellectual about, and John McWhorter qualifies in a big way. He is a world autho...
Richard Dawkins vs. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Political Christian or Truly a Christian?
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I will be on tour of North America, UK & EU talking about my latest book, religion, life on earth and beyond. I will be joined on stage by a range of friends and foes on stage. The events will include a Q&A and a limited meet-and-greet. You can get your tickets here: richarddawkinstour.com/ #richarddawkins #richarddawkinstour Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a hero, a staunch fighter against the violent into...
Richard Dawkins Talks to an Ex-Atheist Christian Theologian | (Part 2)
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(This is part 2 of Richard's interview with Alister McGrath.) I interviewed Alister McGrath for my Channel 4 documentary, Root of All Evil. He is a theologian, a nice enough fellow, but I wouldn't go out of your way to listen to this interview unless it's to remind yourself what an empty, vacuous, non-subject theology is. I will be on tour of North America, UK & EU talking about my latest book,...
Richard Dawkins Talks to an Ex-Atheist Christian Theologian | (Part 1)
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I will be on tour of North America, UK & EU talking about my latest book, religion, life on earth and beyond. I will be joined on stage by a range of friends and foes on stage. The events will include a Q&A and a limited meet-and-greet. You can get your tickets here: richarddawkinstour.com/ #richarddawkins #richarddawkinstour I interviewed Alister McGrath for my Channel 4 documentary, Root of A...
There are no "Christian Children"! (God Delusion UC Berkeley Lecture) | Science vs Religion
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I will be on tour of North America, UK & EU talking about my latest book, religion, life on earth and beyond. I will be joined on stage by a range of friends and foes on stage. The events will include a Q&A and a limited meet-and-greet. You can get your tickets here: richarddawkinstour.com/ #richarddawkins #richarddawkinstour In 2008, touring America to promote The God Delusion, I spoke to a la...
Nature’s Mating Dance: Do Females Prefer Honest Males?
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I will be on tour of North America, UK & EU talking about my latest book, religion, life on earth and beyond. I will be joined on stage by a range of friends and foes on stage. The events will include a Q&A and a limited meet-and-greet. You can get your tickets here: richarddawkinstour.com/ #richarddawkins #richarddawkinstour Why are there two sexes, and how is the balance between the two maint...
In Memoriam: Dan Dennett on Mortality, Life, and Existence
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In Memoriam: Dan Dennett on Mortality, Life, and Existence
Sam Harris Is Wrong About Morality | Can Morality Be Objective without God?
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Sam Harris Is Wrong About Morality | Can Morality Be Objective without God?
An Evening with Richard Dawkins - Reason Reignited | Tickets On Sale Now | USA, UK, EU 2024
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Richard Dawkins on Transgenderism
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Richard Dawkins on Transgenderism
Why Did Andrew Sullivan Apologise to Richard Dawkins?
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A Medium Against Reason - Craig Hamilton Parker
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The Christian Priest Who Is Almost an Atheist!
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The Christian Priest Who Is Almost an Atheist!
Is Homeopathy Fake?
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Is Homeopathy Fake?
The Efficacy of Quantum Healing
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The Efficacy of Quantum Healing
Roots Of Reason: Growing Up with Richard Dawkins
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Roots Of Reason: Growing Up with Richard Dawkins
Think For Yourself: Breaking Out Of Indoctrination
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Bill Nye on Saving The World
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Bill Nye on Saving The World
From Genes To Memes: Philosopher Dan Dennett on the Evolution of Language & AI
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From Genes To Memes: Philosopher Dan Dennett on the Evolution of Language & AI
Dawkins in the Classroom: London Students Debate God, Darwin & the Origin Of Life
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Dawkins in the Classroom: London Students Debate God, Darwin & the Origin Of Life
Evolution Education: Nurturing Skeptical Young Minds with Bertha Vazquez
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Evolution Education: Nurturing Skeptical Young Minds with Bertha Vazquez
Darwinism vs Creationism: A Debate On Truth & Evolution with Wendy Wright
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Darwinism vs Creationism: A Debate On Truth & Evolution with Wendy Wright
Truth Vs Christianity: An Open Letter To Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Truth Vs Christianity: An Open Letter To Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Faith, Reason, and Theology: Richard Dawkins and Alex O'Connor in Conversation
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Faith, Reason, and Theology: Richard Dawkins and Alex O'Connor in Conversation
An Atheist Scientist & A Religious Scientist Discuss Evolution
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An Atheist Scientist & A Religious Scientist Discuss Evolution
Why is ChatGPT unsure about God?
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Why is ChatGPT unsure about God?
Christmas Lecture 05: Virtual Reality: Can You Believe What You See?
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Christmas Lecture 05: Virtual Reality: Can You Believe What You See?
Christmas Lecture 4 : The Ultraviolet Garden
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Christmas Lecture 4 : The Ultraviolet Garden
The Divine Comedy of P.G. Wodehouse
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The Divine Comedy of P.G. Wodehouse

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  • @delonechapalm354
    @delonechapalm354 19 хвилин тому

    Dogmatic intellectuals - who may as well call Science a religion then - why is RD and his ilk so opposed to ideas or answers to questions, they themselves are looking for the answers for? Richard is sadly very purist and narrow minded when it comes to ANYTHING he doesn't think which to me, does not a truly smart person make...

  • @JP-hb4mv
    @JP-hb4mv Годину тому

    two highly esteemed gentlemen. dawkins is 83 here!

  • @beresfordforbes
    @beresfordforbes 2 години тому

    The lord God Emanuel 🇪🇹 🖤 his the same yesterday today and for evermore 🇪🇹 🖤, new covenant and Jerusalem 🖤 🇪🇹 vengeance his mine 🔥 🔥 twelve legions of angel 😇 🇪🇹 👑.

    • @beresfordforbes
      @beresfordforbes 2 години тому

      God Emanuel 🇪🇹 fot us who can be against us, twelve tribe of Israel royalty 👑 vengeance his mine 🔥 🔥 twelve legions of angel 😇 🖤 👑

  • @warrenwood3212
    @warrenwood3212 4 години тому

    Great stuff Nice to think on this stuff , as it comes in your head, rather than post self censoring. Anyhow, great conversation.

  • @heinpereboom5521
    @heinpereboom5521 5 годин тому

    A somewhat weak argument for evidence of evolution from Dawkins and calling this woman dogmatic, as if she is biased? She seems to be right about excluding other opinions, which indeed happens everywhere and not just in her country. The big question is why there can't be democracy in this area.

  • @ALavin-en1kr
    @ALavin-en1kr 5 годин тому

    With consciousness still ‘the hard problem’ and it not being clear if mind emerged with quantum events, denying that there is intelligence in the cosmos now appears quaint. Consciousness does not design it dreams reality into existence, mind thinks, experiences, plans and designs, humans creates nothing original; astro turf is not grass. Humans imitate what is in nature or combines from what is found in nature and makes discoveries from nature. Mr. Dawkins conveniently overlooks this fact.

  • @clemdane
    @clemdane 5 годин тому

    If Richard Dawkins told me he had longed to meet me I would die on the spot

  • @saliksayyar9793
    @saliksayyar9793 6 годин тому

    This is old mumbo jumbo Indians have been selling to the world.Fooled the Beatles! He could go back to the entire universe , back to the Big Bang and not accept a tree! Animist latching on to environmentalism

  • @jimspectre
    @jimspectre 7 годин тому

    Title is doing this video a disservice

  • @jagathmithya719
    @jagathmithya719 7 годин тому

    Without a *source* no material object can come to existence. *Only* existing material can be *recycled* to form new objects, Then, when there was no material how did it come into existence? What was its source? Satish knows it.

  • @ALavin-en1kr
    @ALavin-en1kr 8 годин тому

    Material science has plenty to say, and that is the problem. Explain consciousness is it fundamental, and what about mind? Does it emerge with quantum events? The forces what role exactly do they play? And magnetism, what exactly is it? Materialism, life based on the elemental doesn’t cut it and never will.

  • @stevepayne5965
    @stevepayne5965 10 годин тому

    If I could wave a magic wand I'd remove all of this martial, war-like talk surrounding cancer - "He/she fought cancer" or "He/she lost their long battle against cancer." FFS, pur-lease. Cancer is a condition that some people have or develop; sadly a great many people will succumb to it given that after cardiovascular diseases it's the second biggest killer. All this "battle/fought" BS just makes it sound as though people who die due to it didn't fight hard enough 🤬

  • @4857i
    @4857i 10 годин тому

    If you let a chicken rot it turns to maggots. God didnt create the maggots, they just appeared because the right conditions for life we’re met.

  • @4857i
    @4857i 11 годин тому

    Shes a literal psychopath

  • @ALavin-en1kr
    @ALavin-en1kr 11 годин тому

    When materialists can understand and explain consciousness, is it fundamental, and mind, does it emerge with quantum events then they can discount religion. The ‘hard problem of consciousness’ would be solved if materialists understood that Consciousness is God. Mind is elemental and emerges with quantum events. These men are very intelligent, and very well educated and yet, sadly, clueless.

  • @ronschulz3652
    @ronschulz3652 11 годин тому

    We are 'spiritual' beings, needing to express ourselves and explore our deeper possibilities of love and openness, a higher power if you will, but I see the social coercion of religion can hijack that, to twist us into hating each other.

  • @bryandraughn9830
    @bryandraughn9830 11 годин тому

    These characters always hate science even when they pretend to be nice. When they are milking their followers they will criticize scientists in the worst ways. Backstabbing cowards.

  • @hstephens78
    @hstephens78 11 годин тому

    For the algorithm 👊

  • @ericmyers5940
    @ericmyers5940 11 годин тому

    John is a legend. Great conversations with him and Glenn Loury.

  • @anthonyrispo1229
    @anthonyrispo1229 12 годин тому

    These two need to write a book together or get a series going or something. Amazing.

  • @SimonSuh
    @SimonSuh 12 годин тому

    I love you Richard Dawkins! <3

    • @SimonSuh
      @SimonSuh 12 годин тому

      I read about a dozen of your books, my favorite was the selfish gene and my favorite is The God Delusion! <3

    • @SimonSuh
      @SimonSuh 12 годин тому

      Thank you Dr. Dawkins!!!!!! :)

  • @sme91158
    @sme91158 13 годин тому

    21:35 "Hermione is actually black..." Oh Mr McWhorter please. You slipped your agenda in there. I've noticed that tendency before with this author.

  • @EllasPOSEiDON
    @EllasPOSEiDON 13 годин тому

    Its the cornerstone of those asian spiritualists. :) They start calm, but when they face a really rational and pure logical mind they just get lost. They are popular among those primitive masses, they always were for generations to generations so they get really used to. When they can't get the approval from real thinkers, the blow up. I find it insanely arrogant and passive aggressive. Irritating.

  • @user-vq9dh8hh2l
    @user-vq9dh8hh2l 13 годин тому

    The word order in English and German is still very different.

  • @user-vq9dh8hh2l
    @user-vq9dh8hh2l 14 годин тому

    Fun, nourishing conversation! Woke is religion b/c Marxist atheism is a religion. And this is why the 'Slamo-Woke affiliation is less strange than it looks and why since Hitler-alHusseini Waffen SS and Soviet Union-"Palestine" and even the Islamo-Republic, Shia-PA Sunni affiliation, it keeps repeating. Given that, in Arabic, Abeed, (slaves) is the term for dark skin people, today, African American Abeed are the useful idiots slaves de jour. Tragically, the Woke are somnambulanting in deep sleep. 53:58

  • @farcenter
    @farcenter 14 годин тому

    We used to call this type of cliche, pseudo profound babel " dorm room bong hits" in college. As in " bro do you ever think how hierarchies don't exist and everything's a network?" " Nah man that straight dorm room bong hits".

  • @ARGARETHM
    @ARGARETHM 15 годин тому

    Unfortunately, shes lost the plot.

  • @TheNineteenthCentury
    @TheNineteenthCentury 15 годин тому

    I certainly appreciate Mr. Kumar's poetic view of the world, and he is clearly a very nice man; I respect his quest for wonder and beauty. I think his mistake is in not realising that despite his criticisms of it, _science_ can bring about the sense of wonder he seeks, a sense that can in fact be called spiritual, though I probably would not use the word, since it has unscientific connotations.

  • @plv.d.4079
    @plv.d.4079 15 годин тому

    She could have just named it Gender, an unfalsifiable hypothesis.

  • @peznino1
    @peznino1 16 годин тому

    Hate the camera moving..very distracting..

  • @chrisgale5634
    @chrisgale5634 17 годин тому

    New Age mumbo jumbo😅

  • @michaeltoppel1420
    @michaeltoppel1420 17 годин тому

    Defining basic believes which should not be questioned are the fundament of any kind of political movement. We only see this as a matter of religion, because our two best known religions (Christianity and Islam) were partly political movements as well.

  • @holgerjrgensen2166
    @holgerjrgensen2166 18 годин тому

    Earth is a Living Being, Life-Unit, Mountains is skeleton Poles is gristle. Our hair skin nails is part of Mineral-kingdom, When cutting nails, We care Not to get too close to the Nerves, the cutted nails and hair, become free stuff, goes back to the Stuff-Circuit, gets re-used by Life-Units.

  • @OmarRampado87
    @OmarRampado87 18 годин тому

    Is science arrogant? At least scientists are not allowed to reply "I don't know" when asked for providing evidence

  • @angelmartin7310
    @angelmartin7310 18 годин тому

    My crows should start cawing any monent now, like every morning. Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how awesome crows are?

  • @germantoenglish898
    @germantoenglish898 19 годин тому

    Energy I understand but spirit and soul go into the realm of metaphysics. Also, this unexplained interaction of the energy of everything is too fuzzy for me. The next step is to create a wish board (or whatever it's called) and wait for the energy of the universe to fulfill all your dreams. I suppose it's the New Age form of prayer.

  • @mahatmacote6478
    @mahatmacote6478 19 годин тому

    Rock has no spirit. A tree grows. It doesn't have a perceivable spirit. A crocodile has a very tiny amount of spirit if it can have an attachment to another creature - but only because it's needs are served by that creature feeding it meat of other creatures. Dogs have visible spirit by affections and emotions, also connected with their needs. Humans are attached to this concept of spirit, but relationships are also malleable. We also regard our needs as significant, as well as familial attachments. Humans will disregard what we need to do and are influenced by what we should do. For example, we don't need to support a disabled person, but there's an attachment to what we should do. That also goes for caring for an elderly family member - if we had no shared connection, we don't have any need to do it except as a paid service. Spirit is an enveloping manifestation of emotion.

    • @rishabhthakur8773
      @rishabhthakur8773 13 годин тому

      Can u clearly define spirit according to science? I am not understanding what spirit actually is .

  • @edelschnedel
    @edelschnedel 20 годин тому

    Home birth as an example of rejection of science is an unhappy choice. What happens in many hospitals during childbirth is very little science, but rather a lot of commerce. Science will help determine during pregnancy whether or not a home birth is safe and feasible. The procedure is not nearly as deadly as it is reported to be. But this debate is an excellent example of the manipulation of science to suit commercial interests - something that does way more harm than a random sprinkling of gullible people who buy into a fad, because it’s systematic.

  • @jeffknott1975
    @jeffknott1975 20 годин тому

    He leaned the word "intrinsic" and ran with it

  • @sacielo
    @sacielo 20 годин тому

    he thinks himself as the heir of Aristoteles ... his ideas would have been dated even back then.

  • @davidbanner6230
    @davidbanner6230 21 годину тому

    Is that the way Atheism grows, for it's own survival...

  • @davidbanner6230
    @davidbanner6230 21 годину тому

    Do you think it possible that god might exist in your cosienceness...?" God might not need to exists in six bilion peopple's reality, but only in yours....? You have to be able to think beyond mere human abilility....

  • @davidbanner6230
    @davidbanner6230 21 годину тому

    So sorry that you were unable to understand what I was saying. I was not attempting to dispute Darwinism, Atheism, or evolutionary theory. All I was questioning was, when every human, and animal, development can be (quite rightly) placed within the envelope of evolution. Then how can it be, as there seems to be, a tabu in seeing that faith, and thereby religion, are just as much part of that evolution as all its other functions of existence? In the development of life we take it for granted that as such life develops it become equipped with mechanisms for its protection. In animals we have T cells, antibodies, and leukocytes, however in higher species like apes and especially humans there have arisen a dimension of life that cannot be protected by biological means, and that is the dimension of rational thought and what we call intelligence. With intelligence - by its necessity to be complex - protection cannot be administered by antibodies, T cells, or leukocytes so evolution, over time, has developed an external form of protection for the frailty in humans, and possibly lesser animals, stability and what we call sanity. This is implemented by deputizing some complexity to the care of a higher entity which is created within intelligence to facilitate stability and security. Whether this higher entity is real or imagined is open to conjecture, yet as it is a product of the mind and also has a necessary function, perhaps it falls into a twilight zone of existence in our understanding? Why does it bother you? And why is converting, releasing people, so important to you? And why should anybody be interested in what you believe

  • @davidbanner6230
    @davidbanner6230 21 годину тому

    The game's up Richard....

  • @TVmediaable
    @TVmediaable 22 години тому

    This supports the idea of a One World Religion where Thomas said, "All that there is, I exist and it is I, who is the all.". Yeshua also suppport this idea when he said, "Split a piece of wood , I AM there. Lift up a stone and you will find me there.".

    • @EllasPOSEiDON
      @EllasPOSEiDON 13 годин тому

      And those are words written by people with the intention to build a cult. Nobody knows what a fictional character said, or in other words, a fictional character could say anything and capable to do anything. The only limit is the imagination of the founders. See all religions.

  • @thelvadam5269
    @thelvadam5269 23 години тому

    John McWhorter speaks at 2x speed so naturally the video was relatively short 😂

  • @Legolas1345...
    @Legolas1345... День тому

    R.i.p to all those who think atheism doesn't offer anything

  • @Legolas1345...
    @Legolas1345... День тому

    My mind tolerance level reached one level higher

  • @Cedrou21
    @Cedrou21 День тому

    Did Sam Harris already spoke about her being a christian now ? Lol

  • @TurdFerguson456
    @TurdFerguson456 День тому

    I think you get the word rock from the sound of it. A hard jagged rock hitting/grinding another rock. At least the "ck" part of it. A slab falling off a wall and smashing with an echo almost says the word rock. "Rah" is it breaking off and hitting the air, then "kuh" or "hck" is the hitting ground. 🤷‍♂️