Ep4: The Ultraviolet Garden - Growing Up in the Universe - Richard Dawkins
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[2012-05-22 22:21:25] Globtroting - How good is RD at ...
How good is RD at explaining science, I know this is for Children primarily but it seems to me to be quite complex concepts explained so very clearly.
[2012-05-21 03:02:18] skiball100points - Wouldn't it be ...Wouldn't it be awesome if atheists and religious people didn't crash the comments for every youtube video remotely related to science?
[2012-04-30 05:30:04] hjf3022 - He got a school kid ...He got a school kid to have sex with a flower.
[2012-04-29 14:09:45] AbdulShaafee - [ And say {to these ...[ And say {to these polytheists and pagans etc.}: "All the praises and thanks be to Allaah. He will show you His aayaat {signs, in yourselves, and in the universe or punishments, etc.}, and you shall recognise them. And your Lord is not unaware of what you do."] Soorat An Naml {27:93}
[2012-04-11 02:16:48] pg4v377 - A phenomenon can be ...A phenomenon can be observed, but can't be explained, no religious belief has actually happened.
[2012-04-09 14:23:26] aceytam - Agnostics DON'T ...Agnostics DON'T believe in religion, and DON'T sit on the fence. It's based on the concept that anything, however improbable, may be possible. Eg. Flying spaghetti monsters may be improbable, but not impossible, although highly unlikely. Just as so much of science (quantum non-locality, additional dimensions, existence of dark energy/matter etc), however unlikely they would have seemed 20 years ago, are today accepted phenomenon. Agnosticism is the scientifically correct version of atheism.
[2012-04-09 13:37:28] aceytam - 23 christians ran ...23 christians ran across this video.
[2012-04-08 13:38:58] hunarahmad - thank you very ...thank you very much indeed!
[2012-04-03 18:26:51] TheVarsh86 - 17:14 90s video ...17:14 90s video game nostalgia!
[2012-04-03 18:22:05] TheVarsh86 - Very well said ...Very well said mate :)
[2012-03-23 02:06:14] pg4v377 - Just sneakin in ...Just sneakin in here to say that atheists don't claim to know how the universe works, but we're not going to sit on the fence to side with the eventual winner like agnostics. We hold that all religious thought has been manufactured, intentionally or otherwise, by man, and that believing in something w/o proof is not noble, but complacent. We say that if something doesn't make logical sense, it isn't true. That is noble, only claiming to know what we actually know.
[2012-03-09 20:48:52] heroic33 - all hail the ...all hail the Science! all hail the Science!
[2012-03-04 23:46:14] meeynee24 - this guy uses ...this guy uses designed things to argue for evolution, irrational. clearly a moron.
[2012-02-17 05:53:11] Guardian9191 - Thats bloody ...Thats bloody Douglas Adams over there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy shit, first time I've seen a video of him. Such a great partnership these two makes
[2012-02-14 14:08:11] PERITTY1 - Bonjour, ceci vous ...Bonjour, ceci vous permettra de filtrer le format des email pour obtenir le format email adequat donc RDV sur tuskandata . com à bientot
[2012-02-12 23:50:03] jodiebug1 - What a sweet ...What a sweet little bat!
[2012-02-12 11:08:22] huwrj - Science is the best ...Science is the best thing humanity's ever done.
[2012-01-07 13:35:03] RyanTheChristian - I think I grasp ...I think I grasp what you're saying, thanks. You're saying I mustn't mistake desire for natural selection? Okay that makes sense but it doesn't really help me understand how the flower without a bee-shaped attractor starts to grow one in the very first place. You're probably thinking "natural, gradual stages over many years". But there must have been a flower with that first "idea". Did it accidentally attract a bee with a bruised petal, say?So its offspring immitated that? Why?
[2012-01-07 10:01:02] jbatet1 - ...as an aside: ......as an aside: what the selfish gene suggests is that most creatures would actually prefer perfect clones of themselves, rather than evolution, because that would involve passing on a perfect replica of their genes. So the idea that any plant or animal actively wants to evolve is wrong. There are interesting studies on cabbage white moths before, during and after the industrial revolution that illustrate the 'direction' point (white, black, then white again)
[2012-01-07 09:56:55] jbatet1 - ...and secondly, ......and secondly, there is the difference between 'desire' as a rational thought process that only really happens in higher animals, and 'desire' meaning 'I do this because I'm made be genes that instruct me to do it'. plants are not conscious. But they do reproduce sexually (that's what pollen is for) and they are made by genes. Their offspring will vary, and nature will select. No need for the plants to think about it, and they don't "want" to evolve.
[2012-01-07 09:52:46] jbatet1 - Thanks for the ...Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think there are two areas of confusion here. The first is, there are two types of 'desire'. Animals might desire to have offspring, but they don't necessarily desire that their distant descendents are 7 feet tall or have large thumbs for texting. Sexual desire makes evolution possible, but it doesn't drive it, what drives it is nature killing off the individuals that are not suited to their environment.
[2012-01-07 02:06:38] bary1234 - Line in the water ...Line in the water means its just arbitruary, pulled from the hat. As if one birthday would suddenly make a human being so different than he was yesterday. And yeah, its whole another debate and it wont ever destroy this planet so lets rather chew on the superstition :)
[2012-01-07 02:03:43] RyanTheChristian - Well, you seem to ...Well, you seem to be getting a little hot so I'll come back later :)
[2012-01-07 02:02:09] bary1234 - Nonsense. You know ...Nonsense. You know Spiderman is not real. Are you now devoid of emotion, gut feeling and intuition? Did you loose your humanity when you understood Spiderman is not real? Are you now bleak?
[2012-01-07 02:00:06] RyanTheChristian - The paedophilia ...The paedophilia question is a tricky one and a huge debate in itself. I see where you're coming from and would like to ask certain questions about that line in the water (water?!) and why it's there, but I think it's just distracting us from the debate about the isms :)
[2012-01-07 01:59:33] bary1234 - : Dont choke on ...: Dont choke on your cake, agnostics are Atheists. And you say there is no Spiderman, so you are no better than any Atheist. You say some imaginary creatures and consepts are not real. As if you could prove that they are not real. You are an Atheist towards hundreds of billions of ideas and creatures. And no, Atheism is not a belief. Dont try to redefine the word, it allready has a perfectly good defenition.
[2012-01-07 01:56:39] RyanTheChristian - No, atheism is ...No, atheism is logic, science, no emotion, no gut feelings, no intuition. Atheism would bring about a Vulcanesque society (obviously I'm using it as an analogy) where anyone not adhering to pure logic is destroyed (because logic dictates, such people are not harmonious, backwards, relics, worthy of erradication, evolution). It just doesn't bode well for me. Looks bleak. I like my beliefs. I want to keep them. And Poseidon wasn't forgotten, but replaced. Big difference.
[2012-01-07 01:54:55] bary1234 - Spiderman is ...Spiderman is imaginary? Prove it. Prove there is no freaking Spongebob if you can. Or we can just skip all that, and use the : "Far fetched, oh yes. But possible." We will land there anyways in the end.
[2012-01-07 01:52:04] bary1234 - Dude, I am swimming ...Dude, I am swimming in my cake. Atheism is the best and coolest position to hold, because its a freaking starship Enterprise compared to the leaking liferafts of religion. Its the truth. Agnostics dont have a god, they admit its something humans dont know about. If you cant name the god you believe in, you are an Atheist.
[2012-01-07 01:51:53] RyanTheChristian - Yes, agnosticism IS ...Yes, agnosticism IS the most honest position. I'm glad you admit that. Many atheists insist antheism is the most honest, which is not right. Atheism is a belief. The most honest position is "I don't know" which is agnosticism, NOT atheism.
[2012-01-07 01:49:26] RyanTheChristian - No I haven't seen ...No I haven't seen it but it is buffering as we speak.
[2012-01-07 01:49:18] bary1234 - Yeah, still ...Yeah, still everybody has better morals than the god of the bible. Lies can be nice. They are still lies. Belief in a lie can feel good. Its still a lie. I know I can never end all superstition. I am happy when we have 7 billion Atheists and some 100 000 superstitious people. Overwhelming majority of rational people anyways. And organised religion, that shit has to die. Its just sick there still are organised cults recognised by governments.
[2012-01-07 01:47:41] RyanTheChristian - An impossible leap ...An impossible leap? Ha! Is that your scientific position? Because if it is, it doesn't bode well for your pursuit of truth. We know there's no Spiderman. He is known to be fictional. I don't think it's a fair comparison.
[2012-01-07 01:44:35] RyanTheChristian - Everybody does? ...Everybody does? Come on. Let's not underestimate the evil of the people who actually use religion to kill people. Religion *could* be quite nice. It's just the people who spoil it :) Well to understand what I believe about the Bible would take a more than 500 characters. You don't seem interested so I won't go into it, but I reject agnosticism because I have a firm belief. And your attempt to combine atheism and agnosticism made me chuckle. Can't have your cake AND eat it :)
[2012-01-07 01:41:47] bary1234 - : By pseudoscience ...: By pseudoscience I dont mean fiction. I dont mean Scifi. I dont mean fairytales, cartoons, movies, theatre or sock-puppets. I mean lies, presented as facts. I mean superstition, things we dont know, presented as if we did know, with zero evidence. We can have philosofical conversations, just like we can play with sockpuppets. We just dont make cult out of that. We can compare real science with fiction, we can compare reality with the imaginary. No worries.
[2012-01-07 01:38:10] bary1234 - : Peadophiles cant ...: Peadophiles cant help themselves. Its like any other brain-injury. Humans cant choose their sexuality. Most of our urges drive us like cattle, we are just passengers of our glands, trying to rationalise and justify the actions our bodies force us to take. Sex: All we ask for is conscent. Are the sexual partners conscious and willing to participate in the act. And we have drawn a line in the water, saying that young children under certain age cant conscent.
[2012-01-07 01:32:42] RyanTheChristian - I agree with ...I agree with everything but your last statment, that baseless belief and psuedoscience deserves to be rejected and opposed. I mean, hell you just erradicated pretty much all interesting philosophy... But in all seriousness, without pseudoscience you wouldn't have much to compare your science to! Think about it :) Pure science *is* debunking pseudoscience, is it not?
[2012-01-07 01:32:22] bary1234 - Nobody is a Vulcan. ...Nobody is a Vulcan. Atheism is not being a Vulcan. We are still humans, primitive poorly evolved primate mammals. We are still driven by our urges, to eat, have sex, struggle for power, all that nonsense. It will never end. There is no need to worry about us turning in to robots just because we dont believe in Poseidon anymore. Who cares that we forgot Poseidon? What harm did it cause to humanity that Poseidon is no more worshipped? What did we loose there?