Faith, Reason, and Theology: Richard Dawkins and Alex O'Connor in Conversation

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The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

5 ай бұрын

Join me in a new conversation with Alex O'Connor as we discuss a range of topics, including Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's journey into Christianity, my bafflement at how Alex could stand three years of studying the non-subject of theology, the fear of death, and other things.
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@Clem62
@Clem62 4 ай бұрын
Stay healthy Mr Dawkins. We need you.
@ReallyInterestingName
@ReallyInterestingName 4 ай бұрын
Absolutely ❤❤❤❤❤
@jacobmatthews7524
@jacobmatthews7524 4 ай бұрын
he doesnt look/sound so good at the moment, but i suppose he's in his 80s now.
@normanthrelfall2646
@normanthrelfall2646 4 ай бұрын
The fool has said in his heart there is no God. Time is running out for Richard Dawkins to repent of his sins and turn to Jesus for salvation. There are stumbling blocks or limitations that have been observed, tested and studied. They have been trying to create life in a test tube through chemical interactions for decades and have not even come close. There is no evidence that living matter came from non-living matter. Irreducible complexity within the single cell is a headache for evolutionists Every part within the atom has to be present for it to function and this dispenses with random chance mutations and natural selection relative to chemistry, even the atom is finely tuned with subatomic numbers relative to protons and neutrons in atoms that make up various substances. The fossil record yields no transitional forms between species, neither are there any living forms, so Darwin's tree of life is dead, we only have evidence on the nodes of the branches corresponding to micro-evolution that is kinds within the specie and this lines up with the biblical account Jesus did not lie to us he is the only door into God's presence. Jesus said love God with all of your heart, soul, spirit and strength and love your neighbour as yourself. This is flawless doctrine, wholesome doctrine, sound doctrine and good council. It sounds about right to me, if people want world peace. How do I know the God of the Bible? Answer through the life of Jesus.
@kristiansandsmark2048
@kristiansandsmark2048 3 ай бұрын
@@jacobmatthews7524 He does great for his age, but we are all limited by our biology.
@crioulom120
@crioulom120 3 ай бұрын
Don't worry, he will evolve!
@Alexx481
@Alexx481 5 ай бұрын
Much love for Richard Dawkins and alex O'Connor from iraq ❤
@normanthrelfall2646
@normanthrelfall2646 4 ай бұрын
The fool has said in his heart there is no God. Time is running out for Richard Dawkins to repent of his sins and turn to Jesus for salvation. There are stumbling blocks or limitations that have been observed, tested and studied. They have been trying to create life in a test tube through chemical interactions for decades and have not even come close. There is no evidence that living matter came from non-living matter. Irreducible complexity within the single cell is a headache for evolutionists Every part within the atom has to be present for it to function and this dispenses with random chance mutations and natural selection relative to chemistry, even the atom is finely tuned with subatomic numbers relative to protons and neutrons in atoms that make up various substances. The fossil record yields no transitional forms between species, neither are there any living forms, so Darwin's tree of life is dead, we only have evidence on the nodes of the branches corresponding to micro-evolution that is kinds within the specie and this lines up with the biblical account Jesus did not lie to us he is the only door into God's presence. Jesus said love God with all of your heart, soul, spirit and strength and love your neighbour as yourself. This is flawless doctrine, wholesome doctrine, sound doctrine and good council. It sounds about right to me, if people want world peace. How do I know the God of the Bible? Answer through the life of Jesus.
@milekrizman
@milekrizman 4 ай бұрын
Are you from Iraq?
@ivanfranco2363
@ivanfranco2363 5 ай бұрын
Richard’s channel should have millions of subs 😢
@josmith9662
@josmith9662 4 ай бұрын
Why? Not seen one decent dance, trick or rant. He has not even reacted to Life Of Brian but claims to know about atheism.... shocking lack of content. What crypto does he use?
@SamoaVsEverybody814
@SamoaVsEverybody814 4 ай бұрын
Theists intentionally blind themselves to the truths Dr. Dawkins speaks. It'll never have as many subs as it should.
@jtf9670
@jtf9670 4 ай бұрын
but it's too easy to become intellectually lazy,
@bugzyhardrada3168
@bugzyhardrada3168 4 ай бұрын
​@@josmith9662are you high?
@konstantinlozev2272
@konstantinlozev2272 4 ай бұрын
Needs some female Yoga teacher as an intro.
@zando5108
@zando5108 4 ай бұрын
Crazy to think 82 year old Richard Dawkins running a podcast in 2023! What a treat! Though he seems to want to move on from debating christian arguments even though it was what he was made famous from... This Alex chap seems very sharp, he is fast creating a presence too online, i can see him becoming a major voice for the coming decades and probably of new generation of public intellectuals, exciting!
@davidkariu2330
@davidkariu2330 4 ай бұрын
It's good for his health, one might think.
@freedomlife3623
@freedomlife3623 4 ай бұрын
I don’t get a feeling of academic honesty from Alex, think he is a closet Christian & out to make a name for himself, just like his friend Chris Williamson.
@briansmith3791
@briansmith3791 4 ай бұрын
Dawkins continues to debate the 'God' question because it is vital to his worldview that God be 'killed'. His obvious social Darwinism depends on there being no God. If there's a God, how can Dawkins' views that the warmonger John McCain was a "good man", have "no sympathy" for Julian Assange and even now his support for Israel, not be seen as immorality?
@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce
@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce Ай бұрын
Public intellectuals 🤣🤣🤣 "I don't believe in God" wow give this man a Nobel prize.
@Astrohead824
@Astrohead824 4 ай бұрын
Richard you are a huge part of me living a free life. My mind was so confused before finding you. Thanks. Really really thank you
@drgrahambeards9776
@drgrahambeards9776 4 ай бұрын
A deeply thought provoking, intelligent conversation - thanks.
@3joewj
@3joewj 4 ай бұрын
No conversation is interesting without an opposing viewpoint.
@ashtonhaggitt216
@ashtonhaggitt216 4 ай бұрын
​@@3joewjlmfao that's a pretty garbage take. Can't have a good conversation between to rocket scientists if there isn't a rocket science denier involved according to your logic.
@3joewj
@3joewj 4 ай бұрын
@@ashtonhaggitt216 i said interesting conversation.
@RDTRNT
@RDTRNT 4 ай бұрын
@@3joewj your definition of "interesting" is not necessarily universal.
@3joewj
@3joewj 4 ай бұрын
@RDTRNT Yea, because it's my opinion and opinions are not universal.
@JaguarBST
@JaguarBST 4 ай бұрын
Two people I never get tired of hearing. Thank you for the video Prof. Dawkins.
@Thewonderingminds
@Thewonderingminds 4 ай бұрын
glad not being bored
@tombranighan4569
@tombranighan4569 4 ай бұрын
Thank you, Richard. I've been listening to Growing Up in the Universe lately, and I can't wait to show it to my four-month-old daughter one day :)
@coffeetalk924
@coffeetalk924 4 ай бұрын
I never get tired of Professor Dawkins. He's pure gold
@ColinJarrett
@ColinJarrett 4 ай бұрын
Special thanks to Richard for having this channel. He has surely earned the right to retire from public life is he so chose, yet he keeps his foot on the pedal even today. A national treasure.
@erikolsen6269
@erikolsen6269 4 ай бұрын
Youre the best Richard. Love your work sincerely
@mercedesgomez9424
@mercedesgomez9424 4 ай бұрын
Thank you Professor Dawkins. It is always a pleasure to listen to you. I hope you live a long life so we can keep learning from you.
@willd3rbeast
@willd3rbeast 4 ай бұрын
Yet another great discussion! Thanks for this!
@Philusteen
@Philusteen 4 ай бұрын
I love that Alex O'Connor has gotten such great recognition and conversations. Having followed him for years i almost feel like a proud uncle or sonetbing. Great talk as always.
@budd2nd
@budd2nd 4 ай бұрын
Yes I feel that kind of familial pride too. Crazy really, but he was so young when I first found his channel.
@Keralan
@Keralan 4 ай бұрын
@@budd2nd same bro its insane how he's grown. he's gotta embrace the philosopher beard
@ColinJarrett
@ColinJarrett 4 ай бұрын
Alex is well placed to assume the mantle of logic and enlightenment representative. It's great to see him moving into this space.
@freedomlife3623
@freedomlife3623 4 ай бұрын
Think Alex is not very honest with himself, he probably is a closet Christian although he keeps claim he is an atheist.
@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce
@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce Ай бұрын
What a creepy fantasy lol you like to pretend a young man is your nephew and your the weird uncle that the family doesn't leave their kids around unsupervised.
@mrtunapie6653
@mrtunapie6653 4 ай бұрын
I am fascinated that Mr. O'Connor asked Prof. Dawkins some of the same questions I had when reading God Delusion. I enjoyed this lively discussion indeed.
@SunsetHoney615
@SunsetHoney615 4 ай бұрын
I love that I get to watch this twice from two perspectives 😄❤️
@jamesmotorola6866
@jamesmotorola6866 4 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed the comments on Jordan Petersen. Spot on!
@skepticalbutopen4620
@skepticalbutopen4620 4 ай бұрын
Same. His religious bent is nauseating….
@josmith9662
@josmith9662 4 ай бұрын
Only seen a bit of him and cut the religious stuff short as i aint tolerant......but his general being was not as bad as The Atheist Experience and other commentries had led me to believe. I think his political and social beliefs get him double whammied as evil incarnate in some media I was watching.....
@danielpaulson8838
@danielpaulson8838 4 ай бұрын
Peterson enables the least capable thinkers. Religious ignorance.
@vijaymenon1301
@vijaymenon1301 4 ай бұрын
Huge respect and love to Prof. Dawkins. I did find the conversation a bit dragging, where Prof. Dawkins had already made a very meaningful, strong logical arguments, Alex seemed to be lurking around the same question and exploring different angels where there was nothing to explore . I loved Prof. Dawkins composer, patience and his ever amazing eloquence.
@TurdBoi-tf5lf
@TurdBoi-tf5lf 4 ай бұрын
Yeah Alex was kind of dragging it
@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce
@RichardDawkinsIsaNonce Ай бұрын
Dawkins making a meaningful strong logical argument 🤣🤣🤣 what was it "There is no God because i say so and I'm always right and my proof is i have a pompous voice"
@jkonior1
@jkonior1 4 ай бұрын
This is an interesting and intelligent conversation. Well done!
@padraigadhastair4783
@padraigadhastair4783 4 ай бұрын
Brilliant as usual thank you Richard, thank you Alex.
@MDMB53
@MDMB53 9 күн бұрын
Excellent discussion, as usual. Insightful, informative and above all polite! Thank you.
@AnitaHanjaaab
@AnitaHanjaaab 4 ай бұрын
I had no idea you had a channel. I’m so excited to watch every video. Huge fan!
@CharleswoodSpudzyofficial
@CharleswoodSpudzyofficial 4 ай бұрын
Seeing these two sit apart from each other is almost surreal. It's like a generational blessing in the most non-christian way possible
@marinka424
@marinka424 Ай бұрын
It’s all in the bible, we’ve been expecting them.
@davidkariu2330
@davidkariu2330 4 ай бұрын
Richard has always been a direct and real hitter in all his conversations. All-time favourite.
@fay1298
@fay1298 4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. I enjoyed this conversation immensely.
@castelbergtom2252
@castelbergtom2252 2 ай бұрын
All respect for Alex O‘Connor. He is one fine and very bright person. He is intellectually rather ahead of so many of his interview partners. And I guess he is ahead of Dawkins, too.
@buckycool
@buckycool Ай бұрын
Wow,that was a wonderful conversation.Both men are very impressive in their own way.Than you!
@marilyncoo
@marilyncoo 3 ай бұрын
Big fan of your work and I’m so glad I found your channel! Much love from South Texas! 💞
@lovetownsend
@lovetownsend 4 ай бұрын
Richard Dawkins, come to Boston again so I can hug you!
@stewartburnett6471
@stewartburnett6471 4 ай бұрын
I remember who I was fifteen years ago before reading The God Delusion. Thanks for everything Prof. Dawkins
@lizlorraine463
@lizlorraine463 4 ай бұрын
Loved this, thank you❤
@Luke-kj1rj
@Luke-kj1rj 4 ай бұрын
How in the hell did i not know dawkins had a channel
@matsbjur2535
@matsbjur2535 Ай бұрын
Dawkins has a fascinating capacity to cut straight through humanity’s confusions in thinking about thinking, and look objectively at questions. His replies to CS Lewis questions put forth by Alex are great examples 👌
@troubadour1562
@troubadour1562 4 ай бұрын
You don't need a belief in a God to be good and kind. I hope I prove that every day and I'm sure Professor Dawkins does.
@castropianoforte
@castropianoforte 4 ай бұрын
You don't need to BELIEVE in God, no, but from where comes your sense of morality?
@rufusnunez6482
@rufusnunez6482 4 ай бұрын
As a theist, I can say that many times, my atheist friends put me to shame when it comes to morality. I'm 100% sure that people who don't believe in God are capable of exercising objective moral values, sometimes times, to a degree that puts theists to shame. The real question would be, where does that morality come from?whose morality do we live up to? If we can't agree that there are objective and absolute moral values, who decides what's moral and what is not? Culture? Civilizations? Governments?individuals? Who can give us guidance on moral issues? If there's a Creator, He, and Only He has the absolute right to dictate the moral laws. But if evolution is the source of our moral values, then there can not be absolute moral values. In other words, it's someone's opinion against someone else's.
@chrisphillips7798
@chrisphillips7798 4 ай бұрын
Intellectual acuity coupled with humility. Thank you for the conversation Mr. Dawkins.
@justdoit83388
@justdoit83388 4 ай бұрын
I really appreciate your content, it helps me a lot. Grateful for you Richard Dawkins.
@chriswebb2911
@chriswebb2911 4 ай бұрын
Great question about CS Lewis’ argument about authors and characters and laws of literacy. Excellent interview.
@NickZoran
@NickZoran 4 ай бұрын
Love you, Richard. Great one. Alex is a very special rising intellectual.
@donthesitatebegin9283
@donthesitatebegin9283 4 ай бұрын
I like Alex too. But I get the feeling that over-education has withered his ambition. Shame, since we need bold ideas.
@freedomlife3623
@freedomlife3623 4 ай бұрын
@@donthesitatebegin9283my feeling is he lack of scientific rigor, too interested in recognition instead real facts.
@Jeroen4
@Jeroen4 28 күн бұрын
What 😂
@Gumsley86
@Gumsley86 4 ай бұрын
Great conversation
@nickNLB
@nickNLB 3 ай бұрын
Da mm it Richard, I am not an atheist, but I sure love to hear you speak. ❤️🙌
@Nidhin.T.Thomas
@Nidhin.T.Thomas 5 ай бұрын
Dear professor ❤
@basilhammer2965
@basilhammer2965 4 ай бұрын
Excellent podcast!
@ReallyInterestingName
@ReallyInterestingName 4 ай бұрын
We love you Dawkins ❤❤❤
@colinbrigham8253
@colinbrigham8253 4 ай бұрын
Thank you 😊
@theyatter
@theyatter 4 ай бұрын
Alex is too nice. I remember William L Craig constantly laughing to the heavens, and using Alex's name like a kindergarten teacher would during their conversation. And when Alex put a good point, (I think it was about at which stage a chair comes into being) Mr Craig scoffed and said that was among the worst arguments he'd ever heard... and then didn't even explain why. I think Mr Dawkins is right. I also find WLC unbearable
@PaulWTaber-zd8ds
@PaulWTaber-zd8ds 4 ай бұрын
i know exactly what youre talking about and remember thinking, he didnt even explain why haha
@AnujGupta-ro9xc
@AnujGupta-ro9xc 2 ай бұрын
Richard Dawkins is one person I'd fangirl for. Shamelessly.
@aligood54
@aligood54 4 ай бұрын
I am proud to have come to life in your era "Master Dawkins"❤
@daanmollema6366
@daanmollema6366 4 ай бұрын
Oh glorious Master Dawkins, Lord over my universe, let me write the sweetest hymns to sing thy praises
@briansmith3791
@briansmith3791 4 ай бұрын
Be careful of who you admire. Dawkins praised the warmonger John McCain as a "good man", has "no sympathy" for Julian Assange, and sides with Israel even now.
@bigdiccmario
@bigdiccmario 3 ай бұрын
Clown said “Master Dawkins” 💀
@whitewhite2410
@whitewhite2410 4 ай бұрын
Richard is amazing ❤❤❤❤
@PooperScooperTrooper
@PooperScooperTrooper 4 ай бұрын
Nice one! Sigh, I was just thinking about the christmas my brother and I watched your Universtiry Christmas Lectures. What a lovely way to spend an hour every morning, whilst eating christmas chocolate and mince pies it really was. It's sad that my kids didn't do the same...no, they (and I, I'm almost ashamed to say) had Minecraft!
@joaozinhogarcia3969
@joaozinhogarcia3969 4 ай бұрын
Thanks Teacher Ricahrd Dawkins,my English no very well,but I'm learning...I like of silence and of life that's true...
@sobekneferu4041
@sobekneferu4041 3 ай бұрын
I love this conversation so much! Richard Dawkins is one of my heroes and someone who influenced and helped me tremendously. I also love Alex O Conner, he has become my new favorite atheist and thinker
@billwalton4571
@billwalton4571 3 ай бұрын
these are dumb thinkers that you like
@GuardianSoulkeeper
@GuardianSoulkeeper 3 ай бұрын
​@@billwalton4571He's not a creationist lol
@sharkamov
@sharkamov 4 ай бұрын
It's a delight to be listening to individuals who are utilizing their brains for what they are there for, precisely like Alex and Richard in this civil, logical and entertaining discussion! As for someone who has had the privilege of living on this wonderful planet for close to 70 years, and when it comes to the overarching questions our species are confronted with in regards to us _being_ here - in the vastness of space, namely: _''HOW did it all start?'', _WHERE_ did it all start?'', and not least: _''WHY,_ and _WHAT_ made it all start?'' - all I can say, is: I honestly _don't_ know! - And for me, that has never been a problem! . . . Even though I personally threw religion(s) out the mental window at the tender age of 13 (and with a normal upbringing, _devoid_ of religious indoctrination, aside from certain futile attempts from a handful of deluded elementary school teachers), and since that point, I have _never_ looked back, other than in tremendous appreciation of from the outset being equipped [or what Prof. Dawkins adamantly would state is something definitely EVOLVED!] with a 'personal' neural network (i.e. 'brain'), enabling me to _instinctively_ comprehend the utter folly of superstition and 'magic', I guess I have to say I find a certain kind of mitigating ''solace'' in knowing that every single living human being on the face of the Earth is in literally the exact 'same boat'; none of us knows anything _remotely_ similar to definitive answers regarding any of these most profound of conundrums, and you can take _that_ to the bank! . . . As Alex so rightly puts it at the outset of this discussion; *''you'll **_have_** to think of religion as essentially something which serves as some kind of social function''* - in my view boils down to being the unequivocal double edged sword that it in reality _is,_ and always _has_ been: giving it's adherents (in many cases) a 'source' of profound sense of patently false (surrogate) security and/or comfort (not to mention ''salvation''), while on the other hand being the most _insidious,_ perfidious and _effective_ tool for de facto mind control that has _ever_ seen the light of day on this 'godforsaken' planet! . . . I take it that I'm not alone in harboring a tremendous affinity for the statement once made by the Austrian Neurologist Sigmund Freud: *''The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never rise above this view of life.''*
@DanGrant365
@DanGrant365 4 ай бұрын
Perhaps one of the most empowering truths, if not the most empowering things for a person to realise. It's also a continuous journey to return to/remember this awareness, daily.
@preddysun_official6913
@preddysun_official6913 4 ай бұрын
I love you, sir
@lauraj8429
@lauraj8429 4 ай бұрын
I am SO excited to watch this!! 28:00 Blunt and to the point. LOL. 1:02:48: No need to slip that in there Alex I wish Richard had the opportunity to ask Alex things and converse more about what is interesting to him. Was anything missed out? I adore Richard Dawkins and can't get enough of hearing him speak. I always respect someone who plays devils advocate but it would have been more interesting if this had been more like a conversation and less like an interrogation.
@Netomp51
@Netomp51 4 ай бұрын
28 instead of providing Alex with a good point of view he tried to humiliate his studies, is that wonderful to you ?
@normanthrelfall2646
@normanthrelfall2646 4 ай бұрын
The Miracle in the Cell and the End of Evolution The complex structure of the living cell was unknown in Darwin's day and at the time ascribing life to "coincidences and natural conditions" was thought by evolutionists to be convincing enough. The technology of the 20th century has delved into the tiniest particles of life and has revealed that the cell is the most complex system mankind has ever confronted. Today we know that the cell contains power stations producing the energy to be used by the cell, factories manufacturing the enzymes and hormones essential for life, a databank where all the necessary information about all products to be produced is recorded, complex transportation systems and pipelines for carrying raw materials and products from one place to another, advanced laboratories and refineries for breaking down external raw materials into their useable parts, and specialised cell membrane proteins to control the incoming and outgoing materials. And these constitute only a small part of this incredibly complex system. W. H. Thorpe, an evolutionist scientist, acknowledges that "The most elementary type of cell constitutes a 'mechanism' unimaginably more complex than any machine yet thought up, let alone constructed, by man."105 A cell is so complex that even the high level of technology attained today cannot produce one. No effort to create an artificial cell has ever met with success. Indeed, all attempts to do so have been abandoned. The theory of evolution claims that this system-which mankind, with all the intelligence, knowledge and technology at its disposal, cannot succeed in reproducing-came into existence "by chance" under the conditions of the primordial earth. To give another example, the probability of forming of a cell by chance is about the same as that of producing a perfect copy of a book following an explosion in a printing-house. The English mathematician and astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle made a similar comparison in an interview published in Nature magazine on November 12, 1981. Although an evolutionist himself, Hoyle stated that the chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein. This means that it is not possible for the cell to have come into being by coincidence, and therefore it must definitely have been "created". One of the basic reasons why the theory of evolution cannot explain how the cell came into existence is the "irreducible complexity" in it. A living cell maintains itself with the harmonious co-operation of many organelles. If only one of these organelles fails to function, the cell cannot remain alive. The cell does not have the chance to wait for unconscious mechanisms like natural selection or mutation to permit it to develop. Thus, the first cell on earth was necessarily a complete cell possessing all the required organelle and functions, and this definitely means that this cell had to have been created. There are three limitations or stumbling blocks to Darwinian Evolutionary Religion • There is no evidence that living matter can come from non-living matter • There are no transitional fossils and no intermediate living organisms between species • Irreducible complexity as in the single cell and living organisms are made of trillions of cells
@normanthrelfall2646
@normanthrelfall2646 4 ай бұрын
Professor Proves Scientists cannot explain the Origin of Life Dr James Tour one of the World’s top chemists challenged ten of the world’s leading origin of life researchers to produce evidence for their theories. He wanted the evolutionary scientists to put up evidence or shut up and stop misleading the general public. Evolutionists are always claiming they are getting warmer to explaining how life evolved from a primordial complex soup of chemicals. This primordial soup is an invention of man and there is no evidence that this ever existed in the actual earth’s geology, this only exists in the imagination of evolutionist’s hearts and minds. These top evolutionists have refused to debate Dr Tour face to face on the 25th August 2023. Dr Tour issued a daring warning on his you tube channel. He promised to admit he was wrong, and he would take down all his anti-evolution material on his channel and stop making videos about chemical evolution, on one condition: that any one of the ten leading origin of life researchers-all chemists with intimate knowledge of the chemistry of life-would answer one of five questions about how life overcame hurdles that had to be surmounted before a living cell could appear. Dr Tour took himself out of the judging and allowed three of his opponents to judge for them-selves on whether they had succeeded. He wrote to each one of them personally giving them 60 days in which they could respond and by the deadline of the 24th October, not one of the ten had dared to take up his challenge. My comment: Life evolving from chemicals in relation to “fine tuning” that has to be precise and is extremely complex is impossible and so this theory, chemicals to the first living cell carries no scientific justification. There is design in DNA and RNA for those who want to see it, line upon line of digital code. Yet, chemicals to living cells, is the line pumped continually in schools, colleges and universities. This is committing academic murder! Tell a lie long enough, loud enough and often enough and people will eventually believe it. Darwin’s evolutionary fairy tale depends upon chemical evolution in order to get life started. Dr Tour has authored 680 scientific publications and holds 120 patents. In 2014 Thomson Reuters named him one of “The world’s most influential scientific minds” and he won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Centenary Prize for innovations in material chemistry and is also a fellow of the American Association of Advancement of science. Dr Tour is a committed Christian believer and he stands in awe of God because of what he has done through creation. He states my faith has increased through scientific research, end of quote. The truth in relation to science can lead you to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus said to Nicodemas who was about the third richest man in Jerusalem at that time, you must be born again of water and the spirit or you cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Nicodemas replied, how can a man be born when he is old, can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born? Jesus knew the thoughts of his heart and replied, “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe, if I shall tell you of heavenly things?” That is my point we are only scratching the surface when it comes to the wonder of God’s creation. Jesus didn’t lie to us, he told us the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Jesus loves you and he wants you to repent of your sins by saying the sinner’s prayer. Lord Jesus I have broken your loving commandments, but I repent of my sins and turn away from them, please come into my heart and life and forgive me, give me your peace and reassurance. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life [John 3:16].
@ecstaticbutter9164
@ecstaticbutter9164 4 ай бұрын
Oh I love love love these types of videos! If I was an influencer with 30 million followers, I’d share this with everyone 😭.
@Grmario85
@Grmario85 4 ай бұрын
I really enjoy these conversations even as a Catholic. I appreciate clear cut scientific honest discussions and you would be surprised on how many people with religious affiliations watch this.
@briansmith3791
@briansmith3791 4 ай бұрын
As a Catholic, you would be better off avoiding Dawkins altogether. He is morally depraved. He praised the warmonger John McCain as a "good man", has "no sympathy" for Julian Assange and even now supports Israel along with the rest of the prominent atheists.
@Ayman.Mahmoud
@Ayman.Mahmoud 5 ай бұрын
Here we go 🤜🤛
@andyhight9441
@andyhight9441 4 ай бұрын
The search for more knowledge will never end as long as humanity exists.
@vityatuponogov
@vityatuponogov 4 ай бұрын
Love your content. Can you please add subtitles for your videos? Sometimes its really hard to understand for non-native speakers like me
@personofinterest8731
@personofinterest8731 4 ай бұрын
It took me years to like Richard Dawkins because I thought him to be cold. I was wrong. I hope he lives until he's 100 and enjoys every moment. Thanks for tge valuable conversations Alex. Peter Hitchens should apologise for his behaviour, hope he gets over himself.
@soroushadel8684
@soroushadel8684 4 ай бұрын
Alex is on a roll. From eviscerating Ben Shapiro to a wonderful discussion with Dawkins. Well done lad.
@Marnild
@Marnild 4 ай бұрын
Eviscerated ? I thought they had a nice respectful discussion.
@soroushadel8684
@soroushadel8684 4 ай бұрын
​@@MarnildBen was struggling to keep up and alex dismantled ben's moral relativism argument and returned it back to highlight the hypocrisy of morality in religion.
@arthuroldale-ki2ev
@arthuroldale-ki2ev 4 ай бұрын
I am now 77 years old and as long as I can remember , I have held the same views as yourself on religion Richard. Only I never had the courage to voice them in public, as religious folk can get very nasty , as you know. but then no doubt a religious person would say that if I had faith , then I would have the courage. I will die an atheist (humanist) and no doubt a still coward.
@josmith9662
@josmith9662 4 ай бұрын
It really depends on where you live, what relationships etc you have to lose. I was in Saudi 6 months and kept my gob shut when people assumed i was christiain, declaring athiesm might have endangered my head and job..... Spouting off in a bar in England is risk free
@solexxx8588
@solexxx8588 4 ай бұрын
Sin is for religeous grifters to exploit. We are not born with sin. We are born self aware and evolve to self analyze our actions and adapt to achieve the outcomes we desire.
@arenh2049
@arenh2049 4 ай бұрын
Prof. Dawkins, I share your fear of eternity. It has been the most daunting thing my mind has been able to conceive of since I can remember.
@goldilocks913
@goldilocks913 4 ай бұрын
I hope you find peace 🙏
@dark1021
@dark1021 4 ай бұрын
Never heard of this guy but I’m very interested and the conversation was extremely satisfying. The first bit reminds me of one thing I think of often, and that’s scale. There are many sizes of life. Humans are small in comparison to elephants or a redwood tree, we also know there are stars and things out there bigger than what we have in our system. So the question comes to scale, or perspective. Is life and the universe really big? Or are we just small?
@PhilosophyofGuitar
@PhilosophyofGuitar 4 ай бұрын
As far as we can tell everything is relative to each other.
@johnd5619
@johnd5619 19 күн бұрын
love the videos! timestamps would be great
@sirrevzalot
@sirrevzalot 4 ай бұрын
I love how Alex is running Dr. Dawkins’ podcast 😂 Who’s interviewing who here?
@musssryn1059
@musssryn1059 4 ай бұрын
Sangat bermanfaat
@davidlamb7524
@davidlamb7524 4 ай бұрын
"We are in an unimaginable universe " Alex 14:03 😊
@cmlacosta
@cmlacosta 4 ай бұрын
I'm neither scientist nor mathematician but I strongly believe, based in our current numerical values that if "2 + 2" is not equal to "4", we're doomed...
@purnurschneider1254
@purnurschneider1254 4 ай бұрын
I loved this conversation. I felt there were some unanswered questions towards the end so of course I venture: 1. Concerning the human desire for a god, Fromm proposed as reason the adults’s need for parental love and care. I can also imagine the need to escape responsibility and free arbiter when facing tough decisions. 2. There must be many studies showing how some departures from rationality and beliefs without evidence favor survival. There were some examples in “The God Delusion”. 3. As a weak consolation in the face of death, just consider that we die slowly every day after reaching adulthood: we lose teeth, eyesight and hearing, we get saggy skin, weak organs and dementia. Death is almost a continuous process.
@purnurschneider1254
@purnurschneider1254 4 ай бұрын
Plus, by dying we make space for future generations.
@castelbergtom2252
@castelbergtom2252 2 ай бұрын
One can’t help but like that grey gentleman, and I say this as a confessing Christian. He has the charm that Christopher Hitchens always lacked.
@badreddine.elfejer
@badreddine.elfejer 4 ай бұрын
Hearing Dawkins talking about poetry is spiritual
@Jeroen4
@Jeroen4 28 күн бұрын
Great interview by alex lol
@stewartcohen-jones2949
@stewartcohen-jones2949 4 ай бұрын
I’m waiting for a book from Alex. He needs to take that next step . Make a statement.
@yunowot
@yunowot 4 ай бұрын
Whenever I need resassuraunce of my moral and intellectual superiority, my prowess as a logician and a good old fashioned gutteral laugh, I listen to these guys.
@theboombody
@theboombody 4 ай бұрын
Claiming moral superiority is not often effectively done. It's like when humble people brag about how humble they are.
@yunowot
@yunowot 4 ай бұрын
@@theboombody wrong.
@September2004
@September2004 4 ай бұрын
Did they both post pretty much the same conversation on the respective KZfaq channels?
@alisonhiggins8459
@alisonhiggins8459 4 ай бұрын
Richard concedes his arguments and is open to debate. Alex seems to be rigid and doubles down on his beliefs. Great pod cast Richard is so relevant today as always. Great minds. It’s not about Hitch’s charisma but his knowledge and wisdom.
@josmith9662
@josmith9662 4 ай бұрын
To me Alex has always been more the crusador type, couple that wth being younger, more mobile with ideas and doing an interview... he will play devils advocate. Richard however strikes me as slightly bemused that others cant cope with the simpliest realities of this world. A bit like me when my lodgers still cant manage two locks on the front door after 3 years in the house
@ashleysherlock5705
@ashleysherlock5705 4 ай бұрын
You've definitely misjudged Alex here. As often, Alex takes the side of opposition, so most of the time he isn't even expressing beliefs he actually holds.
@Overflowingg
@Overflowingg 4 ай бұрын
@@ashleysherlock5705 The reason for this should be obvious as this was uploaded to Alex’s channel as well. His style of interviewing revolves around challenging the other’s beliefs. He wants thoughtful answers, and philosophically probes his guests. As Alex intended to upload this to his channel for his podcast too, I think that Alex naturally slipped into being the host. However, I suppose on Dawkins’ channel this might come off as Alex simply being stubborn as one would expect Dawkins to guide the conversation and Alex to fill the role of the guest by merely responding to questions.
@ashleysherlock5705
@ashleysherlock5705 4 ай бұрын
@@Overflowingg I suppose that's possible but Alex and Richard talk about Alex deliberately taking the oppositional opinion at the start of this very conversation
@leob3447
@leob3447 4 ай бұрын
Alex indicates multiple times he's playing devil's advocate to the theological point of view to foster the conversation. I think the only thing Alex kind of pushed that was his personal belief was about debating WLC, since Alex has had a few pretty good conversations with him (including one where he kind of stumped WLC with the notion that the universe could actually be 'necessary presupposition' instead of god).
@rajivradha
@rajivradha 4 ай бұрын
Mark Cohn was asked the same question when he was walking in Memphis, he said he was tonight.
@jamieodv
@jamieodv 4 ай бұрын
I've never seen Dawkins directly in front of me, not something I'd ever considered. He's often addressing a interviewee to his side. So the intro caught me off guard. 😂
@guitaraflamenco
@guitaraflamenco 4 ай бұрын
Smarmy? Can listen to this guy.
@josmith9662
@josmith9662 4 ай бұрын
I saw that interview 4 yrs ago, Alex was so intense and border line aggresive I thought he was going to bite Richard.... I suspect he has mellowed now, lets see
@OfficialRogue
@OfficialRogue 4 ай бұрын
Was it? 😅 I thought it was nice, just like this one
@josmith9662
@josmith9662 4 ай бұрын
@@OfficialRogue it saw a near bite experience, this one was more licky
@patolek1990
@patolek1990 4 ай бұрын
I wached this video that alex mentioned about sun being a size of a blood cell
@skepticalbutopen4620
@skepticalbutopen4620 4 ай бұрын
Is it on KZfaq?
@andresdubon2608
@andresdubon2608 4 ай бұрын
I kinda like how Richard sees Alex as the new generation, at least a bit.
@jpjrobot
@jpjrobot 4 ай бұрын
The God Delusion should be read and taught at school. This would benefit civilization immensely.
@valleyriver
@valleyriver 4 ай бұрын
Can someone ask Dawkins why we can’t demonstrate in a lab the transition from non self replicating chemicals to self replicating life? 11:27
@Tacitus_Kilgore1
@Tacitus_Kilgore1 4 ай бұрын
I have discovered that living your life to fit into the concept of time is to limit the fullness of your life. Now I'm not saying time isn't important or doesn't have relevance in our lives, we all know the world works on time. But you don't have to live your life strictly within the concept of time. Certain parts, yes, but everything? No. You can separate what's important from what is routine. Living your life as experiential existence allows you to move time to the background. It becomes less important than the experience itself. So, I have chosen to look at life as not the time we are given but the experiences we are given. Good or bad. That is essentially what life is, moving from one experience to the next. Time is linear, experience is fluid. For example, the expression time flies when you're having fun is, in my opinion, a fallible observation. Time neither speeds up or slows down, it's how the particular experience is making you feel that allows you push time to the background so as not to allow it to interfere with your good experience. You forget about time and that is freeing. The same goes for bad experiences, time appears to slow down and makes the pain worse, when really it is your unwillingness or inability to confront the issue head on. Time doesn't care if you are having a good time or a bad time, it doesn't speed up or slow down, it is our perception of the experience that causes the disconnect. Living one's life as an experience is far more rewarding than waiting for an expiration date where you feel you have to cram as much into it as you can. Just enjoy the moments you're given, learn the lesson it's teaching, and stop worrying about how many you will have. Quality over quantity.
@christiansmith-of7dt
@christiansmith-of7dt 4 ай бұрын
Challenging history with untold accuracy
@davidpretiz4439
@davidpretiz4439 4 ай бұрын
Excuse me, I like that artwork on the wall.
@thierryf2789
@thierryf2789 4 ай бұрын
Richard Dawkins is very patient with this young man who does not seem to have one single idea of his own. By the way, in mathematics, you can demonstrate that 1+1=2 and that 2+2=4 . The problem with studying theology is that you don’t study other things.
@SUPREME-SCIENCE
@SUPREME-SCIENCE 4 ай бұрын
This guy called Alex Doesn't realize who is in his presence. He doesn't know how stupid his questions sound in the presence of the best Scientist in the world!
@MsAlishaan
@MsAlishaan 3 ай бұрын
You really ought to read up on the 'real' scientists' opinion of him. He's only taken seriously by atheists - he's your god.
@robertchadwell7146
@robertchadwell7146 4 ай бұрын
There's a good reason for calling it the biblical corpus. Even though people intellectually know it's many books that were written over time and bound into one we generally think of it as one book just like any oth book on the shelf.
@samhatam
@samhatam 4 ай бұрын
I think Hirsi Ali has her frontal cortex damaged since her childhood, how could someone be enlightened with reasoning and logi, reject and quit all of that and go back to superficial 2000 year old deity. Mr. Dawkins you’re so polite and diplomatic.
@guyverdio
@guyverdio 4 ай бұрын
I hate questions like how do we know 2+2=4. In the case of 2+2=4, we know this because we've defined it as such. We have this concept of quantities, we give labels to certain quantities. When we combine the quantity we've labelled 2 with another quantity of 2, the quantity we get is the one we've given the label 4.
@geekexmachina
@geekexmachina 4 ай бұрын
I would very much be interested in A conversation with Bart Ehrman or the Digital Hammurabi Channel.
@sammyking9407
@sammyking9407 Ай бұрын
Dreaming of the day when Dawkins stops running and hiding and formally debates Dr Craig.
@aleksandarvolchev7818
@aleksandarvolchev7818 4 ай бұрын
I'm not sure who is the guest here? Alex or Richard? Based on the interview I would say it's Richard? Anyways, nice talk!
@matterasmachine
@matterasmachine 4 ай бұрын
There is creator, but it's simple machine. Not all powerful and not all mighty.
@SUPREME-SCIENCE
@SUPREME-SCIENCE 4 ай бұрын
Poetry and science differ in their methods, purposes, and expressions. Poetry is a form of artistic expression that uses language to evoke emotions, feelings, and imagery, often employing metaphorical and symbolic language. Science, on the other hand, is a systematic and objective study of the natural world, aiming to understand and explain phenomena through empirical evidence, observation, and experimentation. While poetry seeks to convey subjective experiences and emotions, science strives for objective understanding and explanation based on evidence and logic.
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