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Professors Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins brief U.S. House staff and the public in a science-theme Congressional Hill briefing, arranged by the Secular Coalition for America.
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Richard Dawkins & Steven Pinker: US House Briefing
Reddit sent me. I obliged.
Richard Dawkins is the hardest working man in the fact business.
my two favorite people!
cool
Two of the greatest popularisers of science
The poem is by Aldous Huxley: A million million spermatozoa
"3rd day vegetation-5th day fish & birds-6th day animals then humans"–Genesis 1
PERFECT evolutionary template—4,000 years before Darwin
"Rather BIG gap right at the beginning of evolution."–Dawkins
"If any complex organ could be demonstrated to exist which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, slight, successive modification, my theory would absolutely breakdown"—CHARLES DARWIN
In 6!! editions of "Origin", CHARLES DARWIN NEVER/NOT EVER argued
"better adapted for immediate local environment" (5th edition),
NON-LIFE to LIFE.
INSENTIENT PAIN FREE non-life obtains NO "better adapted" evolving to
PAIN-PANIC-STARVING LIFE. PAIN is AVERSIVE!!
It is irreducibly complex.
WHY!! CHARLES DARWIN NEVER/NOT ONE TIME contended
ABIOGENESIS!!
EVERY atheist worships ABIOGENESIS.
Dawkins TORTURES the language imagining he's on the trail of abiogenesis.
ALL SCIENCE utterly repudiates abiogenesis….but atheists propagandize.
Dawkins superciliously berates 'the religiose' for resisting evolution.
IT'S THE 1ST PAGE OF THEIR BIBLE!!!
THEY dispute Dawkin's duplicitous/sub rosa appending of ABIOGENESIS.
THAT'S Dawkin's "THEORY"
NOT CHARLES DARWIN'S
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SEE MY VIDEO
I am an atheist living in a city full of evangelicals. To be able to sit here and smoke great pipe tobacco with tea and lemon listening to rational people like Dawkins and Pinker is like a breeze of fresh air.
Religion is in the way of good behavior. Science is discovering more and more ways to medically treat those who display bad behavior. People with bi polar conditions are being treated with workable meds instead of being viewed as grave sinners by illogical theists.
Insightful discourse, but on another note… It was an absolute joy to see Dawkins and Pinker wholeheartedly enjoying each others company. It's obvious that they have a real respect for each other. Inspiring.
Epic! Two great people in the same talk.
Four unlettered, slow-brained religious delusionals disliked this video.
Uhm why does she ask dawkins about the origin of universe
Great talk. But sound is too poor for an event of this caliber. Whoever produced please consider better equipment next time so a document of such importance is preserved with due respect. Thanks
Dreadful sound..
…brilliant minds..
Very insightful.
disgusting sound
All members of the U.S. house are educated people. Do they really need a primer on the basics of science? What did they do in college? Did they get their money's worth out of their secondary education? While I find any video presentation starring Dawkins and Pinker a worthwhile affair, these particular ideas can be found anywhere science is practiced. I would find it very frightening if the people forming my laws were not familiar with basic science, lacked natural curiosity, and needed this presentation to bring them up to speed.
2 in the pink, 1 in the stink.Steven Pinker FTW.He is a REAL learned professor. Reads like a textbook. could beat Dawkins in a fight probably.
Just finished two books by the venerable gentlemen: "The Better Angels of Our Nature" (Pinker) and "The Ancestor's Tale" (Dawkins). Great reads.
Cynics and deniers, "God created man from the dust of the earth" . How that process occurs is for science to discover. Evolution however, no more disproves creation than the discovery of gravity did for Newton and Einstein in explaining planetary motion. Let’s cut to the chase and be brutally honest here, atheists like Dawkins irrationally and illogically attack religion as if it disproves a creative mind behind the universe. They smugly cite Darwinian evolution believing it is evidence against God, when it is irrelevant to creation or creationism. It is a false dichotomy b/c it says nothing about ultimate beginnings and the finitude of time! The fact is, an absolute beginning for all time, matter and space is abhorrent to a materialistic worldview, (if any “thing” is to exist now, then some previous ‘thing” must have existed eternally in the past, right?)
As atheist astronomer Arthur Eddington laments, “Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order is repugnant to me. I should try to find a genuine loophole. I simply do not believe it all started with a bang. An expanding universe is preposterous to me..” So forget your feeble attempts to know the mind of God, your bitter diatribes against religion, endless profanities and your deification of evolution as an alternative to creation, as they say NOTHING about how being came from non being.
Embrace the finitude of the past as proven by the impossibility of an infinite regress of past physical events (cause and effects). Embrace this magnificent, awe-inspiring, rationally intelligIBLE, ABSTRACT law-abiding universe and the non-contingent, rationally intelliGENT cause as the ONLY plausible explanation aka G O D !! So we ALL are creationists. Some like Krauss however, just want to claim something came from absolutely nothing (or was it a quantum vacuum, which is not nothing?)
all the evidence shows atheists are less proportional in the prison population than theists, have the same or less divorces, marital infidelity etc. Giving up religion won't make you a murdering bastard, in fact it will probably make you MORE moral. Also society is becoming more scientific and less theistic and at the same time (Better Angels of our Nature) less violent and more humanistic. Too bad this point wasn't pressed further in the talk.
I have to disagree with Dawkins when he said that intelligence is sexy. Speaking as a man who has bedded a lot of beautiful ladies I can assure you I am by no means intelligent. Neither am I particular funny, attractive or rich. So I really don't know what the opposite sex finds so attractive in me.
Canon Rebel in the back ground, Probably t2i or t3i
pinker can't get a word in with dickers hogging the spotlight
I wonder how many Senators and Representatives were in attendance for that event?
Idiot with a camera
The moderador was dumb (And I'm blocked)
Already the second question is about a completely different field of science.
I am so happy that Dawkin and Pinker are willing to educate all who have questions and want to move beyond faith and into the realm of critical thinking , by using the question (((why)))) that is education.
Dawkins never heard of von Neumann probes. The rest of the universe might already be aware of us. They probably have been aware of us waaaay before we could send out EM signals by watching biological evolution and sending the reports back using something that has larger speed than light.
Great company, nice to see both together. I have watched Richard a 1000 times and liked him, every single time. Just amazing.
I think communication/speech would have had to been the most significant factor in the development of human intelligence. Especially since our primary skill with the opposable thumb would allow us to manipulate objects in space, and so create symbols and then represent those with unique sounds.
I love to hear Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker speak. But why are there barred from interaction? Dawkins hints several times something like 'Steven is more of an expert on this than I am', but the interrogator(s) utterly ignore(s) this.