A sad fact is that this statement could have been made by almost all of us (atheists).

Well what you would say and what is actually true aren’t necessarily the same

In fact you chose to believe in it since there are no proofs at all so whether you have been brought up by believing in it or not it is irrelevant.....still if you listen you your teacher here you will see that you are contraddicting yourself: if you were brought up in india one would be hindu whereas if born in the middle east one would be either jew or muslim. That is so stupid that your teacher does not know what he is talking about. Believing in something is a choice acquired after studying / research etc etc I was brought up by atheists, left school very early simply becuase i could not listen to all this bloody british non-sense. Those who brought me up tried everything to turn me into an atheist but did not work out so, again, it is a choice to believe in something whether you are proofs or you have none just like Richard here.......start thinking.

As a clear-thinking normal person, evolution and the rest of Richard’s theories just make sense. Nothing else does.

yes, absolutely

You are joking, he's brainwashing the poor kids with his garbage! He even admits evolution is only a theory! Child asks, why is evolution still only a 'theory'? Dawkins replies "don't worry about that" haha what a joker. He even debunks it himself, when he tells the kid 'we used to have a theory the Earth was round, but now we've been in space we know it round, so we call it a fact now! Dawkins follows that scientific pearl by telling the child "don't worry about why we still call evolution a theory". His exact words... He's making it up as he goes along! Listen how often Dawkins uses the word 'probably', Sorry Dawkins 'probably' ain't a very scientific word! Oh and when you google Denisovans and that cute fake homind puppet appears, remember that all they have is one finger bone and a tooth! The puppet is total fantasy but it makes Dawkins go all gooey eyed. It's no different to pictures of angels in the Bible!

Dawkins is more intelligent than all the mullahs , priests, pastors, popes , bishops and rabbis of the world combined . He is my hero .

Why do you admire him so much?

@@chiamtateng1973 he is wize ,intelligent and honest and that's just about it . I have been listening to his lectures , maybe too much, since the mid 1980s on TV and later on KZfaq. He also has a dry type of humour which usually make for a better teacher s . Just watch some of his videos he made in America ? The bewildered look on his face is priceless.

Why?

@@chiamtateng1973Can’t u grant ppl a little hyperbole? He’s working hard to educate ppl. Or r u really just asking why ppl should listen to him?

He's trying to groom them

@@Adogsmate4267 Dawkins would be fine if he left it at science, but he doesn't. His real-life views are atrocious. He praised the warmonger John McCain as a "good man", has "no sympathy" for Julian Assange and even now supports Israel.

"3rd day seed/plant....5th day marine life--birds...6th day terrestrial mammals---humans". HOW is that distinct from "descent with modification"?! FN REMARKABLE!! Genesis provides accounting for oxygen on earth allowing for subsequent animal life. Genesis' offers ONLY a koan for first life: plant/seed 4th day prima facie enunciates; "days/seasons/years...for purposes of sacred observance". OF COURSE, removing all doubt "days" references epochs not 24 hour days. Repeatedly the separation between 3rd & 5th days affirms a reverence for animal life not accorded plants. ---The first page of chapter 4 of The God Delusion has Dawkins claiming to repudiate physicist/atheist Fred Hoyle's contention that 'life beginning on earth is as likely as a hurricane assembling a fully functioning Boeing 747'. Dawkins says, 'oh no, poor boy; he fails to appreciate the miracle of natural selection'. Dawkins' worshipful genuflection to natural selection is woefully in opposition to Darwin's chapter 6: "numerous, successive, slight modification". The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics NEVER/EVER/NEVER/EVER allows inanimate objects to proceed through numerous, successive, slight modification. That IS an absolute antonym of 2nd Law; THE MOST proven law known to humans. Einstein said, '..is the one law of universal content which will NEVER be overthrown" IT HASN'T BEEN! Dawkins is a carny barker fool, and I could continue effectively endlessly with his idiocy. HE'S LITERALLY TOO STUPID TO INSULT..BUT IT'S MADE HIM VERY RICH

Wonderful! You created a good balance between respect, attention to their beliefs and opinions, while gently leading them to think about evolution, their beliefs and the importance of evidence.

👍 That’s a good one. I can think of many way that I can modify and use this here in the US.

😂

Technically you Germans have been doing a wilder version of that about 80 years ago....remember.....😂

BMW speaks for itself.

@@DarthwRath Right. That's why you guys never talk about what the Evil Island Empire did about 300 years ago. ;)

The young mind is very malleable and very naive. Unfortunately, it doesn't have much defence against irrational arguments or beliefs being imposed upon it. If children were very difficult to teach they would be far less likely to survive, so the young mind *has* to be accepting of information coming in as fact. However, children don't have prior information upon which is filter out implausibility, so they have to accept it alongside what may actually be useful information. The more irrationality that is introduced to the young mind the more gunked up that mind becomes. Eventually, usually around the teenage years, the mind becomes more likely to repel contradictory knowledge and more likely to refuse arguments from authorities. So, if the gunk hasn't been cleared out by that point it becomes *very* difficult to remedy. The more gunked up a mind is, the more irrational the mind becomes. We see this with some of the students here, unable to get past the initial premise that the 'holy book' that was fed into them at a young age is not evidence is any rational way. The contradictory evidence that *is* rational gets repelled rather than processed. Thus, an irrational base is very difficult to erode with rational arguments because the 'software' for processing that rationality has either never been uploaded or has been overwritten with irrationality. I do not know the answer to this; I'm not sure there is actually is a 'good' way to remove irrationality once it becomes so established since the only truly 'good' way cannot be used. What we need see is a ban on feeding irrational information to children, in the same way we ban alcohol and tobacco consumption with children. This means not taking children to religious organisations. Prosecuting adults who feed religion to a child. Once they are adults they would then hopefully have a good base of rationality to work from. At that point it becomes necessary to allow freedom of choice - because at that point choice is actually informed and therefore meaningful. It will likely not occur in any country with a sizeable religion population, so we'll just have to hope that strong consisten arguments are made in schools for rational arguments to counter well-meaning, but ultimately harmful, parents blasting religion at the child.

@@RJWhitmore I agree with you regarding young minds. I was shocked at some of the arguments from some of the young religious people because they were a group of articulate interesting individuals who had obviously thought quite hard about what they had learned.

I skived R.E. for the whole of secondary school, got caught and after one lesson where I questioned every word that came out of the teachers mouth, I had to play tabletennis with my co-conspirator for the rest of my srcondary education. I also played table tennis with the same friend every Thursday afternoon for a couple of years for skiving field and going to see our ponies instead.

That’s crazy! But you are 100% correct.

Look at Dawkins getting an ego boost from debating children rather than step up and debate William Lane Craig

I always have a weekly dose of dawkins to make me realise how lucky I am to not believe a word he says . He's a very dangerous man . What's different about this planet is it was created for us to live on . Darwin theory doesn't prove a thing . Asking children to give you questions . He's on the same iq level

@@michaelmarshall9132 How is he dangerous?

@@ga6589 because he's lieing to you

@@michaelmarshall9132 I disagree. Dawkins encourages people to think critically and logically, rather than to accept non-evidentiary claims about god and the afterlife. IMO, what's dangerous is when people are religiously indoctrinated through fear, intimidation and superstition. Historically, it's an easy and convenient method that takes full advantage of humans' innate fear of death and what happens after we die. “A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion." -Robert Todd Carroll

@@ga6589 that's my point . Because he doesn't believe he thinks no one else should

Why are you so thankful to him?

@@chiamtateng1973.making these children think and understand that religion has no basis in facts , some historical facts m but all science of islam , Koran is incorrect, plain fantasy

@@chiamtateng1973 I am thankful to him because he is an articulate voice for critical thinking. reason and logic.

@@ga6589 +1 I couldn't have articulated that better.

​@@chiamtateng1973 Why aren't you? He is (gently) challenging these kids inherited worldviews in favor of curiosity and an evidence-based intellectual foundation.

Exactly what I thought. Its really important to clarify that one, because the ambigous therm "theory" seem to cause a lot of confiusion

@@Overlordsen very true. Although I would point out that both hypothesis and theory are both magnitudes higher than faith and subjective interpretation

This video made you religious!?

​@@rosalind1635If so then this guy will be the biggest failure 😂

I would be very interested to know how it affected your faith if you don't mind sharing

Not an interview... But yes it's an old classic.

Dr. Dawkins, thank you for the remply I feel very honored at this moment

That’s hilarious 😆

This looks like an older video. If I recall from my very basic camera progression knowledge, auto-stabilising tech was added at some point (and iterated upon), which means we are more familiar these days with steady camera action. This video was either likely taken before such tech or such tech was too expensive at the time for use here. On the other hand, it *was* a long video; maybe his hands got tired and his head *was* free to carry stuff!

I thought the same thing. The camera work is awful. Even so the talk is so interesting.

@@RJWhitmore "It looks like an older video" No shit?! Was it the four pixels that gave it away?

Using modern video software it would be possible to stabilize this much more.

Everything? He does nothing, he's not contributed to the science in any way! He just lies to children! Did you even watch this video? Dawkins changed the questions two kids asked because he cannot answer them; 'how could the heart evolve' and 'why is evolution still only a theory'! Even worse, Dawkins attempted to shut down an enquiring mind by telling the girl "don't worry about why evolution is still only a theory" before immediately moving on to the next question! Appalling attitude! He's a liar, you cannot prove evolution! Google image Denisovans, look at the stupid cute looking hominid creature that appears and then ask yourself, how could evolutionists have a clue that it looks like this, when the only Denisovans remains found are a single tooth and one finger bone! They obviously have no clue what it looked like, how tall or hairy it was etc etc. It's a lie, a fiction, a hoax to brain wash every child and uneducated person that sees it! Evolution is a lie.

dawkins: does anybody has an idea why our bodies are made like that? student: because god made us like that. dawkins: yeah!! ... anyone with another idea?😅 reminded me so much of the situations back in school when teachers wont comment on how stupid the answer of a student was.

Frustrated for what..? He made the students to think rather than imposing something... This was a wholesome conversation

@@SoorajSuseelan10001 Exactly, better than believing in Adam and Eve, the apple and the snake 🐍 with its legs. What kind of evidence for the existence of creation? Compared to evolution, fossils, and DNA evidence, evolution is not a theory anymore. It is an irrefutable fact.

Dawkins mentioned the director not permitting his use of the whiteboard. I have a feeling that the choice of students attending was intentional and that RD was as much a pawn as the rest of them.

😂

Enjoy Hell then. I will look down from Heaven laughing at you.

You have to stay up man come one 😂😂😂

i'm rewatching it in Pakistan watch it later lol it is worth it.

Is it? Looks like any state school in London

what type of world... the mixed up world we have

You should visit Indonesia, there is a lot of fossils found here. We have museum of it.

I'd suggest searching evolutionary biology.

Haha, we all know what the word theory means in science, I'm guessing you don't and are confusing it with the academic definition!

@@ankyspon1701 No. People don't. Otherwise, they would not say that evolution is JUST a theory. I don't know what you mean by "academic". There is the scientific definition, the philosophical definition, the mathematical definition and the common use definition, and they are all different.

@@ankyspon1701religion is all .. theory .. in every meaning of the word ..

@@carlodefalco7930 No. It is speculation. It is not theory in the scientific sense.

@@carlodefalco7930 Actually lad, there's more 'factual' information in the Bible, Sumerian scrolls and the Vedas etc than there is in any of Dawkins' books or lectures. You were brainwashed as a child reading too many Tommy the T rex books, how much real investigation have you done into evolution since then? Do it and then see what you find, because while you can obviously see that life does slowly change over time, that's the same species evolving, ie a human simply becoming a slightly different human, not a totally different creature. As for lies... Dawkins talks about Denisovans looking so much like us, but did you know the only Denisovans remains they have is a single tooth and finger bone! But Google Denisovans and you will see a full sized homind creature, it's a fiction, a lie, to sucker people and continue the brainwashing everyone's had since kindergarten! Dawkins just posted a new video of himself attempting to brainwash kids the way we were all brainwashed as kids and when he invites them to ask questions, he evades most of their questions because they are unanswerable. Evolution is only a theory!

You mean you didn’t believe David took out Goliath after days of everyone refusing to fight him and the armies just sitting and waiting? You don’t think David took hundreds of foreskins from dead philistines back to Saul as evidence that he’d killed them? Never mind turn the other cheek! Keep your Crown Jewels well protected!

yeah i think when childrens realise that santa is not real thats when they shouldve known that thats the same for their religious champions lol but i guess not which is really alarming

It's mostly just Islam that is ferocious in its brainwashing. Christianity can be too. The other religions are more cultural than dogmatic, imo.

There are some inherited cancer syndromes as you point out. Some of them can cause leukaemia. If you can reproduce before you succumb to the cancer process, then natural selection will not remove these errors. In the wild, if the elder members of the group play an important role, then any premature death has a survival disadvantage; elephants and some primates. Rodents, insects and most birds less so.

There's an old joke, avout when science fills a creationist gap, they will simply claim that makes two gaps, one on each side.

@@richardgregory3684well said…

I know Richard Dawkins would agree that religious myths and legends have a very important place in the human imagination - just not in fact.

@@vernondias7342 The universe is fine-tuned for Life. That fine-tuning precludes any physical interference, ruling out ALL Religious Gods, past or present, but points to a creator.

Appears so, religious explanations ultimatly are arguments from authority. A parent, a priest or a holy text says that x or y are true, so it is true

What are you on about? Can you not see how ridiculous that is?

Thanks,@@RaveyDavey I think that Bible had descried DNA structure: “ … a whirlwind came out of the north, … Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. … they had the likeness of a man” (Bible, KJV, Ezekiel 1:4-5). Whirlwind + Four living creatures + likeness of a Man = DNA (human blueprint) Yes or No ?

I would agree, or pretend to, with who is in charge. Remember the golden rule. Whoever owns the gold makes the rules.

Modern science tells us that we have observable evidence for one universe fine-tuned for Life. For me, that points to a creator.

@@briansmith3791 The FS Monster blesses you.

@@VaughanMcCue FS Monster? What's that?

@@briansmith3791 Sorry, I should have been clearer. Deep in their heart, everyone knows That the real saviour is The Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is written in She-brews 10;26 Everyone is a Pastafarian, but occasionally, they are willful in their unbelief. Also, in Martha 4;4. Women cannot live by pasta alone. Thanks for your interest and contribution.

Because hes a creep that shouldn't be around kids

I'm surprised he hasn't been knighted. He spouts the Authorities line constantly. Praising the warmonger John McCain, attacking Julian Assange and siding with Israel even now.

@@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce I see from your name that you are an impartial commenter

@@doccock100 Of course 😉

@@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce Richard Dawkins was molested as a child, but I am unaware of his paedophilic criminal history as suggested by your user name. Please educate me.

"it can be argued that these Constants are very finely-tuned or we wouldn't be here". Dawkins ( Poetry of Reality, Aliens, God 31-33mins). " Our conclusion is that the fundamental properties of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for Life"- 'A Fortunate Universe' book by theoretical physicists Lewis and Barnes. We have observable evidence for one fine-tuned universe with emergent unguided processes such as evolution by natural selection. The fine-tuning argument rules out any Religious Gods, but points to a Mind behind all this.