What I admire most about Dawkins is his sheer cold hearted attitude toward MAN MADE religion. This man has not one second for spirituality. He is 100% correct 100% of the time because he ONLY concerns himself with fact. A true scientist by definition.

I thank Richard Dawkins for helping me to make the final step towards removing the shackles of religious and spiritual magical thinking. I was never a holy roller and had always questioned the nonsense being spewed by religious people but now know fully that there is nothing after we’re gone. No hell. No heaven. Good and bad happens to all regardless of your beliefs. There is no celestial intervention. My mind is completely free of all thoughts of any mythology of religion. You don’t need religion to be a moral decent person., which I strive to be everyday.

I enjoy your pod casts very much. At 82 I still love to learn. Thank you from Canada.

What an absolutely delightful conversation! It was such a pleasure to sit in on this conversation - thanks to you both.

Dawkins you are the prophète of science and reason

Prof Richard Dawkins…….truly a national treasure !

Well, Richard Dawkins is just admirable... The god delusion is fantastic... Thank You from Venezuela...

Excellent talk.

Brandreth did a good job of asking obscure questions that rebounded on himself to recount his own pithy anecdotes.

Lovely listen.

Excellent conversation. Always a delight to see the “normal” side of Dawkins.

They made a movie about Stephen Hawking while he was still alive - isn’t it about time they made one about the incredible life of Richard Dawkins ? I wonder who he would choose to direct it and who he would like to play the leading role.

I really enjoyed listening to this conversation. Very honest and kind of relatable in its humanity. Thank you to all involved.

I enjoyed this podcast so much, especially have read almost all of Dawkins' books, including his fascinating autobiographies. Thank you.

Love Dr Dawkins as a biologist/ author, curious of Richard as a man. Thanks for this episode🎉

What a treat

Wow! You were born in our country.

One will never expand there ability to go further than reason if one don't open their thoughts to the unthinkable ?

What an interesting set of experiences and conclusions subsequent to them,,, then and there after from a future distant perspective….its all quite amazing.

Why do I keep seeing Monty Python skits listening to this.. What O!

A truly admirable man, such a shame they happen to be so few now.

please don’t die ♥️

11:41- just because “you took it (molestation) in your stride” doesn’t mean you SHOULD take it in your stride !

I love their voice

❤❤

thanks for my upbringing out of mainstream religion dictation.

50:59 - If Richard Dawkins has the good fortune to inherit his parent’s genes for longevity, he’ll be with us for many years to come. (His father passed away in his mid 90’s and his mother to almost 103 !)

Fun!

Interesting coincidence that National Science Appreciation Day - March 26th - also happens to be Richard Dawkins’ birthday..

3:46- An adorable coincidence that the mother of the author of The Selfish Gene, was also called Jean, albeit a different spelling but same pronunciation.

That voice is what full meal feals like.

Any advice on how to get over feelings of guilt on becoming Atheist? New atheist here.

I will not critisize Mr. Dawkin's way of thinking. His agnosticism is obviously an intellectual possibility. But one should keep in mind that men of no lesser capacity, to put it mildly, i.e. great sages of the past and of the present, saw things quite differently. One needs to find out where one stands on such crucial existential questions. Mr. Dawkins compels to think.

If the Hitch was on here with Giles. We could truly say malifluous.

Isnt life lovely?

I Patrick A. Andrews am the man who presented a evolution theory that was based on the science of DNA, and current events in 1995 by two way radio that was right .

Dawkins..ohhhh he will find the answer

I have a couple of questions for Richard Dawkins... Do you think Jesus existed? And what about the other guys from the bible, Moses, Paul, etc, did they exist? Uff, I'm so proud to be an atheist... Thanks

Very good conversation. I'm surprised that Richard couldn't recall his young girlfriends. I can recall all of my boyfriends. Richard must have lost his virginity after the age of 20, by what he said.

Too bad that you don't communicate with your audience. Pleas tell me, Jesus was a known Mann yes ? This is documented very well. How many children did he have ?`

The big problem for Dawkins, something that he by now must be fully aware of and is having trouble to cope with, is the fact that the simplistic dogma that has made him famous is now being compehensively debunked by sound scientific facts. The post-Darwinist dictum is that spontaneous mutations in DNA create some individuals with superior adaptability who then dominate through selective pressure. This mechanism works beautifully within a given species, but cannot explain speciation. Speciation is a mystery and Dawkins must know this, and yet he keeps pushing his theory because his entire fame is based on it.

I saw Dawkins at a presentation where he was claiming Bill Nye was saving the world. For one thing, no one man saves the world and certainly not the charlatan Bill Nye. What's up with that?

Mathematics made me - along with my famous colleague Leibniz - a theist, and in a few lines I will show you that atheists actually believe in God. 😆 At least they rely on God. Not the “God” they imagine (and which they reject), but the one pointed to by the great mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Because when they argue against God (more precisely, against what they imagine as "God"), they rely on the spaceless and timeless laws of logic, which they implicitely believe, of course, are unconditionally valid. What is actually the case and can be seen, for example, in the fact that mathematical theorems, such as the Euclidean prime number theorem or the fundamental theorem of algebra, cannot be thought of in any other way than being valid in, before and independently of every conceivable world. Already that alone proves that they exist in some kind of intangible, immaterial way. In fact, if one admits that spaceless and timeless, i.e. immaterial and eternal truths exist, such as the laws of logic and mathematics, then one must conclude with Leibniz that there is something that constitutes their being. According to Leibniz, this 'something' is God. The Logos God [cf. John 1-1] is the realm of eternal truths. Leibniz in his "Monadology": "The understanding of God is the realm of eternal truths and ideas, and of on whom they depend ... God's infinite mind embraces the ideas of all potential beings, that is, of all real beings and of all those that can be thought, because they imply no contradiction." Every theistic, but also every atheistic, argument relies on logic. In this way both testify to the Logos. The first consistently, the second obviously not. In this context, it is noteworthy that some excellent theoretical physicists, such as John A. Wheeler, think that even matter ultimately arises from (quantum) logic [ Wheeler's “It from bit” ]. The brilliant Martin I. Kober, who further developed Carl F. von Weizsäcker's quantum theory of primordial alternatives before he sadly passed away in 2021 at the young age of 38, left us this message in his last published article: “The crucial thing about all these considerations is that ... [ in Weizsäcker's theory ] no space-time, no background structure at all and therefore no field-theoretical concepts whatsoever is presupposed. As with Hegel, the entire world is spanned by pure logic, or more precisely by pure quantum logic. Apart from time, all that really exists is logic which floats in the void. This corresponds exactly to the claim of Christian theology that God created the world from the Logos." [ cf. arxiv.org/pdf/1809.02469.pdf, p. 101 f. - my translation from German ]

Why do you, mr Dawkins, need our "contributions"? If you're poor go to church, they give away free lunch every sundays😂

Gyles Brandreth? No thank you, not even for Dawkins. 🤮

How can you be brilliant if you got it all wrong

"Infinite regress" is Dawkins' ultimate, silver-bullet God killer; 'in that only regress exists...God itself must have a creator'. UNFORTUNATELY (MORONICALLY/IMBECILLICALLY) infinite regress reflects the 1st Law of Thermodynamics (NEWS to "Richard"). BUUTTT... in the first chapter of The God Delusion he specifies he refers to ONLY "supernatural gods". 1st Law IS NATURAL LAW---BY DEFINITION supernatural supersedes natural law... THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS!!!!

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Are you fair dinkum You think Richard 100%right HE SAID HISTORIANS BELEIVE JESUS WAS NOT REAL HE WAS WRONG 5 SECOND THERE GOES HIS 100% IF I WAS YOU I WOULD CHECK OUT WHAT HE HAS SAID. After all you can't trust ATHEISTS OK

Prof Dawkins is delusional- Dawkins has written books based on lies lies lies- just to make money ££- What a coward for attacking innocent religious people !! How do you disprove God ??