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With so many expressing paranormal beliefs and ignorance of science, Dawkins encourages viewers to contrast these ancient superstitions with the power and beauty of our scientific achievements and understanding.

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jiffyjaffa : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

jiffyjaffa

7 votes NegativePositive

285 days 8 hours ago...

I`m guessing this is pretty old now. (10 years?) and the same creation/ID shit is still coming up today. at leat dawkins hasn`t given up and is still trying to drag people through the enlightenment.
anyway good show.

KMCS : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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279 days ago...

The thing I find so funny about dawkins is that you are deemed "stupid" or "unenlightened" simply for not believing what he believes. If he was really so confident, why would he need to belittle other peoples beliefs and not just let his stand on their own merit?

n8dizzel4shizzel : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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278 days 23 hours ago...

I may not goto church every Sunday but your not gunna take away my belief in God no matter how much bullshit like this you put out.

bigbadjim : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

bigbadjim

12 votes NegativePositive

278 days 23 hours ago...

It`s not just what he believes, it`s what the scientific method has deduced. If scientific method should prove him wrong, he would change his "beliefs".

Beliefs should not be held with faith. They should be constantly under the attack of reason. Darwins idea of evolution is constantly under attack, yet no one has been able to disprove it.

Faith IS unenlightnenment.

Doqaz : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

Doqaz

8 votes NegativePositive

278 days 23 hours ago...

"this is a very heavy ball"

Oh Dawkins, you are so dirty and sexy.

86466638 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

86466638

9 votes NegativePositive

278 days 23 hours ago...

n8dizzel4shizzel, exactly what about this is bullshit i fail to see... And I don`t think that Dawkins is calling people who don`t believe in evolution idiots, but honestly, when people deny the evidence and hold beliefs on faith alone, I think you need to question how well honed their reasoning skills are.

nismo240sx : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

nismo240sx

8 votes NegativePositive

278 days 22 hours ago...

KMCS quit your crying. That`s always what religious people do when someone presents an argument based on logic, reason, fact, observation, and hundreds of years of experiments thats completely discounts fairy tale religious superstition.

Just like that stupid woman in the clip said "I`d rather believe that I came from Adam and Eve, than a monkey"..... Well just because you`d rather believe that because it makes you feel better doesn`t give it a shred of truth.

So you now might say.. "well what`s wrong with letting her believe that, it doesn`t hurt anyone". Well sure this 1 women being a complete moron doesn`t hurt anyone. But 75% of American`s being complete morons does. Not to mention fundamentalist religious people who think crazy things like islamic terrorists or evangelical christian nazi lunatics.

It`s a weed of ignorance that must be stopped at the roots. And that happens to be basic ridiculous religious beliefs and people who walk around in a bubble of religious ignorance and stupidity, forever retarding the progression of human kind.

Led Zeppelin : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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278 days 21 hours ago...

what I find funny about these people that bash on religion and say that it is for the "stupid" and "unlightened", are so very selective with the religions they bash. The most targeted religion on this site is Christianity, particularly Catholicism. But the second some says "fuck islam" or "fuck buddhism" it gets buried. If you truley feel that relgion and faith is for the weak minded, than say so about ALL relgions, yes, even Rastafarism. That religion is closely linked to Christianity, for example the reason they grow dreads is so that they can emulate a lions mane, as that of "The Lion of Judah". Bob Marley himself died because of his religion because he forbade doctors to amputate his toe when they found a tumor in it, because Rastafarism wont let any man become dismembered in anyway.

nismo240sx : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

nismo240sx

7 votes NegativePositive

278 days 20 hours ago...

Alright I`ll say it.

All religions that believe in a SUPERNATURAL GOD OR GODS are nothing but superstitious fairy tales based on ZERO fact, ZERO logic, ZERO reasoning.

Religion is a non-falsifiable superstition which can not be tested by and human made scientific experiment.

On the topic of other fake religions, ask yourself this. Why don`t you believe in Thor, or Zeus, or and of the Egyptian gods or Nors gods, or the tea pot which orbits the earth or the flying spaghetti monster. You can`t prove that there isn`t a flying spaghetti monster so why don`t you believe in it.

Remember when you were a young child and your parents first told you that Santa was going to bring you presents on Dec 25th. Or that a giant rabbit was going to deliver candy on Easter. And remember them lying to you for years and years until either they told you the truth or you figured the truth out for yourself.

Well now repeat that story except replace Santa with the word God. They sound pretty well the same except neither you nor who ever it was that brain washed you has figured out the bullshit yet.

The onus of proof is not on me to prove that your god exists or that your religion is true. The onus of proof is on you.

mattytheory : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

mattytheory

6 votes NegativePositive

278 days 20 hours ago...

@kmcs: at least he doesnt run around killing non-believers like religious fucks do.

LifeType : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

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278 days 19 hours ago...

fuck evolution and relegion ... i think there is a over all creator , but for any living man to tell you he knows more about after life then you is just lying/brainwashed .. no living man knows the truth .
so dont let any one tell you they do .

stndspec : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

stndspec

8 votes NegativePositive

278 days 18 hours ago...

"people who walk around in a bubble of religious ignorance and stupidity, forever retarding the progression of human kind."

I was working at a guitar center in dallas once, when a lady approached me with her children in tow, a girl of about 15, and two boys, about 9 and 5 I`d guess. She informed me that I was a sinner, and wicked in the eyes of god. (mind you, she wanted to buy a keyboard, and we had only been discussing pianos up until she decided to completely flip out on me. She tells me I am a sinner, and that if jesus had not died for me I would be facing hell. Then she gave me a fake 1million dollar bill which has been circulated by these insane-o evangelical christians, which tells me what her idea of god expects of me.. The things I wanted to say, but for fear of job loss I reigned in any response. She asked me if I`d read the bible, and I mustered as much genuine sincerity as I could, and said that anyone needing a book to determine right from wrong was deaf to themselves.

She was convinced I needed saving. She thought she was doing good! One of her kids might have possibly had it within them to become another Einstein... but since they are being raised to believe provable and clear things like evolution are false, as well as all the math that supports such conclusions, there is essentially no chance that child could ever realize such a love in life, or discover what that potential could be.

That mom has lied to her children, deformed their natural perception of the reality we live in, and done the most fundamental of harms by teaching her children not to think or even value reason.

Led Zeppelin : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

Led Zeppelin

3 votes NegativePositive

278 days 18 hours ago...

lol see, the second I say a comment calling ALL religions absurd, and stating that Bob Marley was a very religious man, I get buried. Hypocrites.

Anyway I have a similar story, I was hanging out with my girlfriend on halloween and was helping her supervise her younger sister and her friends as they went trick or treating. We came to a door that read something like "we do not have candy here. We believe that you should worship the light and Jesus Christ. We will pray for those of you who turn to darkness and sin". This enraged me, one of the kids turned to me and my GF and with a concerned look on her face asked "is what we are doing evil?" To put those kinds of ideas into a childs head, to make them think that an innocent childhood tradition of going door to door for candy and having fun dressing up can equate to "Evil" and make them think less of themselves is a crime.

I believe in spirituality, which in my humble opinion is very different from Religion. Some people mistake sprituality for religion, and mislabel the spiritual as "religious nuts". Some of the nicest people I have ever met have been spiritual, believe only that you should treat other people as best as you can (as any human being should), live each day as if it were their last, and believe that death is but a stepping stone to living, its not the end of it. To me there is nothing wrong with that, but those who go around judging who is "saved" and who is "damned" and believe that it is their duty to push their beliefs on other people are criminals.

napalm4sd : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

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278 days 18 hours ago...

Im a bilogy major in college and any good scientist will tell u that science CAN NOT explain everything in the world and universe. And yes i believe in a higher power, the level of complexity is astounding, life is far to complex to just have happpend by chance, which despite what u have been told or think, is the case. Do i believe evolution and religion can coexist? Certainly, what most people fail to realize, is that if their is a god, which im preety certain their is, that his intelligence and level of overall BEING would far surpass ours, for all we know, god IS a scientist to whom wich we are not even on the same level. Were just his/her creation.

MTHunter : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

MTHunter

5 votes NegativePositive

278 days 18 hours ago...

nismo240, thank you. It is rare to find someone of your intellect.

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