Part one of Richard Dawkins’ two part documentary on religion, ‘The God Delusion’, part two below. Includes the infamous interview with evangelical nutcase, Ted Haggard.
Running time: 48 mins.
Running time: 48 mins.
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If you’re a Dawkins fan you might enjoy commenting on our “The God Delusion” forum. I’m going to try to get Richard Dawkins for a live chat in mid March 2007, and I’m inviting you to attend. I had him for a chat back in 2003, when we read and discussed “Unweaving the Rainbow.”
If you like this you might also like to know that Dawkins also recently toured the USA promoting his new book, The God Delusion, where he gave an excellent round of question and answer sessions, one of which was posted on youtube by the rational response squad. Makes for excellent viewing.
Part one, where he discusses the book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7yf9GJUfU
Part two, questions and answers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_z85O0P2M
For more information on the tour, check out his tour diary:
http://richarddawkins.net/tourJournal
Thank you for these. I am a big Dawkins and Sam Harris fan, and I stumbled across these videos a month or two ago and found them fascinating. They’re long, yes, but very, very worth the time to watch.
If you’re interested in more along the humanist/freethinking lines, you can check out my blog, as I have a number of posts about the topic.
Thanks again for posting these videos.
Richard Dawkins has many things to say, all worth listening to. I too watched this a couple of months ago and read the God Delusion recently. Don’t close your mind to Dawkins. I have a few posts worth reading on the subject at http://paralleldivergence.com
While I’m not religious I have to say that I find Richard Dawkins to be a bit of a pessimistic nerd.
I find his speculations of where we came from, like the religious kooks to be irrelevant to the more important question of where we are going.
I don’t find Dawkins to be pessimistic at all. His musings on life are tremendously optimistic. That this life is all we have, and to make the most of that time. To fly in the face of increasing evidence and uphold blind faith in religion sems far more pessimistic to me. He remarks that human intelligence is spectacularly miraculous. The improbability of life ever having happened is staggering. He’s a brilliant speaker as well.
The claim that he’s a “nerd” is probably more telling of the claimer’s personality than that of Dawkins’s. Using the same scale I suppose one might say all scientists with PhD’s are nerds.
I think it’s interesting that the more you listen to Dawkins, the more he seems firmly ensconced in an Atheist meme, similar (though contrary in goal) to the Christian meme that Sue Blackmore and others have analyzed. His world view has all the meme characteristics: payoff (intellectual superiority), retribution (“sheep-ness”), and even replication (see his links for “atheism support groups”). I find it just as unlikely for Dawkins to escape the mindset of that meme as for a fundamentalist Christian to abandon theirs.
Thanks for posting these! As a Dawkins fan I know I’m going to enjoy watching this.
Good points Tim. Tim shows us you don’t have to be a nerd to be intellectual and logical.
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