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On Saturday, March 8th, 2008, Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on The God Delusion during his US Tour. The event took place on the UC Berkeley campus in Wheeler Auditorium, and was completely sold out. A line of hopeful attendees stretched around the side of the building, waiting to see if there would be any ‘no-show’ tickets at the last minute! There was a Q&A session that followed the talk, which will be posted to the site soon.
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@SaganAppreciationSoc
Maybe you could email this to Dawkins himself. He might appreciate it.
The lines from …
The lines from unweaving the rainbow really are beautiful.
There are like 10 …
There are like 10 quotes from just this section of the video that I want to add to my favorites. Especially that bit about death at the end.
“We privileged few, …
“We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that state, from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
I think I have a new favorite quote.
@KeroroGunsouTX Not …
@KeroroGunsouTX Not really. The universe will be no different after your death than it was before your birth, you will have had no effect on it. Your loved ones, of course, will mourn, but other than that, it means nothing. No relevance.
Unless, of course, you’re religious, and in that case, you really don’t have a point.
I would disagree …
I would disagree with Dawkins on one point, where he quoted Mark Twain comparing death to the time before birth. I would simply say that what’s ahead of us is always more relevant than what’s behind us.
Thank you for …
Thank you for making this video available to us. I am so glad to live in the age of Dawkins. We have a slim chance to save the species now.
makes allot more …
makes allot more sence, I dont get why he would be a vegetarian if he was fine with killing other humanbeings, I need to educate myself more on this subject
good audience
good audience
@aModernDandy Don’t …
@aModernDandy Don’t stop trying to disagree with Dawkins. Thats what he has been trying to teach us all along: DON’T ever stop questioning!
When a person of …
When a person of considerable import repeats an absurd urban legend, it becomes important to correct.
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@SaganAppreciationSoc , It doesn’t matter. That is besides the point. Thank you though, I learned something today from you.
Richard repeats an …
Richard repeats an urban legend at 1:11. Despite the popular myth, Hitler was not a vegetarian.
Squab was one of Hitler’s favorite meats. In addition to historical accounts from multiple 1st-hand witnesses, there are 2 books specializing on the topic:
“Hitler Was a Vegetarian And Other Tales” by Ron Ferguson (ISBN-10: 0905489713, ISBN-13: 978-0905489711) or Rynn Berry’s book “Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover” (ISBN-10: 0962616966, ISBN-13: 978-0962616969)
Add a text correction?
Not any surprise …
Not any surprise about US. Ignorant sheeps.
If true,that’s very …
If true,that’s very sad.
UC Berkely is one …
UC Berkely is one of few universities that he could speak to in the US. Most colleges in Tennessee seem to be feeled with conservative republican morons.
@krjo4215
sad
@krjo4215
sad
“I’m an atheist …
“I’m an atheist with respect to the Judeo-Christian God, because there is not a shred of EVIDENCE in favor of the Judeo-Christian God.”
~ Richard Dawkins
…Dawkins, that’s because you have not visited my channel.
WOW!
WOW!
His last quote …
His last quote simply blew me away. wow
@TheRioterKiss …
@TheRioterKiss TOTALLY AGREED
@chiggevara I COULD …
@chiggevara I COULD NOT AGREE MORE
@aModernDandy BRAVO
@aModernDandy BRAVO
I always tried to …
I always tried to disagree with Dawkins. I studied Religion as a main subject in my last two years of school, and Philosophy as an additinal subject. And whenever we discussed Dawkins I frantically tried to disagree with him. But ever since I left school half a year ago I kept thinking about his arguments and his thories and I realized that I do agree with him.
Now I watched these videos and I have to say they were brilliant – and I’m glad that I can acknowledge that now.
That last part made …
That last part made me cry. It is so beautiful, so inspiring, so tragic and still so uplifting. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!