PART 2: Richard Dawkins reads excerpts from The God Delusion and answers questions at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006. This Q&A features many questions from Jerry Falwell’s Liberty “University” students.
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PART 2: Richard Dawkins reads excerpts from The God Delusion and answers questions at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006. This Q&A features many questions from Jerry Falwell’s Liberty “University” students.
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I think he was irritated at the end of the conference since some of the questions were dumb. Also the lighting and sound were poor and… irritating.
@HayleeHalogenX @HayleeHalogenX Lol man. i started reading your comment and I was like ‘o, here we go, another LUK AT DA TREES” and then you ended it with SCIENCE IS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. I was like LOL.
@HayleeHalogenX How stars form and how they die, is what makes them interesting for me. The processes are just beautiful, and beautiful is our ability to understand them.
@meanmopar426 I look at the stars and am amazed by how spinning balls of noxious gases can be so beautiful.
Because SCIENCE IS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. SCIENCE.
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@thesparitan What was that middle part again?
@thesparitan Hmmm. What was that middle part again?
What if your wrong LOL. awesomely bad question
@meanmopar426 What is the proof, what is the evidence. I could say something just as crazy as you just did, why should you or I believe the claim.
So whats the evidence? the evidence of what you claimed?
wow people..its asking a question, not telling your life story
@meanmopar426: Yes, we all are free to chose, and thats why I like living in a democracy
. And meanmo, I was a Christian for many, many years (I even married in church..), a deist for some more years.. I have thought about this long and hard.. I looked at things as fully as I can possibly aspire to (and the thinking process goes on, there is still so much to be learned and much to be understood)..
@Nalae1978 “While I do not think the existence of a creator god is likely – much less that of a caring one.”
Your choice. Let me suggest that when you do begin to see creation. And I have no doubt that you will. Don’t just run off and join anything. Take the time to look into things FULLY. Because their is a lot of deliberate misinformation out there intent on swaying people into a false hope.
G’ Day!
@meanmopar426: I have to get back to work as well
..While we seem to agree that we disagree, it was an interesting discussion for me, and I wish you all the best.
@Nalae1978 Evolution isn’t sound at all.
Yes, I am an Old earth Creationist. Those same fossils, DNA, etc that you use to show evolution. Is also used to show why life went extinct for example.
I see and know clearly why they went extinct. For example. Science claims that the Dino’s were wiped out by a meteor. But to me that “meteor” had a name. Ist Cor 4:4.
Well time to go. I have a lot to do today.
Take care Nalae1978!
@meanmopar426: While I do not think the existence of a creator god is likely – much less that of a caring one – and while I do not think there is an ultimate purpose to the universe (and, if there were, the likelihood of it having to do with us humans is not really worth pondering) I agree with you about love. And, I am quite fascinated by “outer space” myself..
@Nalae1978 Yes. We do ALL share a connection with one another as well as for the beauty not only of this world, but also for the spender of the Cosmos.
We have YET to realize our full loving potential. However, God does have a plan for mankind that transcends not only time, but also Space.
It took me over 40 years to realize this. Now my wife and I look up at night and ponder just what kind of lakes and flowery meadows we would like to form up there VERY soon. The Icing on the cake if you will.
@meanmopar426: “Awful lot of time”: I presume you are not a young earth creationist? So, we do agree, there actually was an awful lot of time? Yes, there are gaps. It is more astonishing that we do have so many fossils at all. And even without them, just by biogeographical data, comparing the life forms around today, and genetics, evolution is shown to be a sound theory.
@meanmopar426 There are hundreds of thousand of papers about the branching out you describe in your post – and as I said, I am not a biologist, I am a geographer. I do not write papers about evolution or abiogenesis, since I am not an expert of these fields, even so any divisions between the subject matters of the natural sciences (and the social sciences) are ultimately artificial. I am actually more of a cultural geographer, even so I did some work on glacial geomorphology..
@meanmopar426: No, I actually meant you and me, “atheists” and “believers in God”, if such stereotypical descriptions can be used. We are awed, we are moved by beauty, we share the joy of living.
@Nalae1978 “We are more alike than you may think.”
Man and animals you mean. Yes we are. But NOT in the way Darwinian religion teaches you it is.
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Hold on to your hat.
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Ever watch a Dream Works film where the boy is fishing from the moon onto a distant land? Can you picture going to a dead planet and Creating.. (That’s right I said Creating and not planting) Organic life?
That’s my dream. And I do love to fish.
@Nalae1978 “awful lot of time”
Here we go again with Darwin’s magical black box (Chance of the gaps) or as I now refer to it (Darwinian Pixi Dust).
Sorry Nalae. I don’t believe in Trillions of Miracles. To see what I mean by that do a paper on “Orgi” the 1st living organism. And when you do have him branch out into the diversity of known living organisms we see today. You know. Have him Morph into a fish, then a Dino, Whale, Crab. Lobster, Chicken, etc etc etc etc etc. & see what I mean.
@meanmopar426: Well, thats one thing we share then, even if our explanations and interpretations of this beautiful universe are not the same. Sometimes I am driven to tears just by touching the bark of a tree. Sometimes I feel connected to everything around me, handling a rock that is a billion years old and contemplating its journey through time. My heart opens when I hold newborn babies in my arms. We are more alike than you may think.
@meanmopar426: I actually grew up in a very small town myself, and I spend much time on farms when I was a child. Nobody ever proposed that complex life forms miraculously form themselves by chance. The beginnings of life were much less complex, and it took an awful lot of time before vertebrates came into being. And dirt, chemicals and lightning flashes is NOT a correct summary of the currently debated theories about abiogenesis.
@Nalae1978 I know how Wonderful the Cosmos is. You do not yet, but you will. That I am sure of.
@meanmopar426: Bye to you as well, and I hope you will one day open your eyes and see how awesome, wonderful, fascinating and complex the universe truly is, and how rewarding it is to try to understand it better and better. I pity you, I am sorry to say that, you are missing so much. But each to his or her own, all the best to you – live long and prosper
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