Way of the Mind

Seen first at God is for Suckers.

In the first part (about 30 minutes), Dawkins reads excerpts from his latest book, The God Delusion.

In the second part (about an hour), he answers questions from the audience. Most of the questions, apparently, come from teachers and students from Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, which teaches — guess what — young earth creationism. Including dinosaurs living 3000 years ago, instead of being extinct 65000000 years ago, as they were in fact.

I found it impressive that Dawkins managed to remain so patiently nice, by the way, even when some questioners clearly showed that they hadn’t listened to a word he said, and were simply trying to catch him in a contradiction or ask a question he hadn’t thought about. Of course, they failed.

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Related posts:

1. 2 Hours with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitchens
2. Richard Dawkins and Douglas Adams, on the purpose of things, and a certain Dish of the Day
3. More on the Dawkins / Hitchens / Dennett / Harris discussion (part 1): belief and emotional investment
4. More on the Dawkins / Hitchens / Dennett / Harris discussion (part 3): "God exists" implies Christianity?
5. More on the Dawkins / Hitchens / Dennett / Harris discussion (part 2): the immaturity of religious arguments