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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
 Posted - 01/21/2007 : 07:41:21
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Here is a podcast of a lecture by Richard Dawkins (mp3 format) from the CBC Radio progarm Ideas. He talks about how our brains have evolved to pervieve things on a middle scale and how this makes it hard for us to conceive the very large and the very small. He provides a good rebuttal to the "Scientists have been unable to create life in the lab" argument. This will be available until February 12th.
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"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
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Posted - 01/21/2007 : 08:22:47 [Permalink]
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| Great lecture! thanks for posting it. |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 01/21/2007 : 13:02:34 [Permalink]
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I'm a fan of Dawkins, reading his new book right now. Although its good it tends to be a little hard to read and seems to spend a lot of time quoting people, not for facts or expertise, but merely because they are famous for one reason or another.
Are there any more things like this to listen to? |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
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Neurosis
SFN Regular
USA
675 Posts |
Posted - 01/21/2007 : 13:54:16 [Permalink]
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| I would guess you have seen beyond belief 06, watched some of the Dawkins and Harris lectures, if you are interested in the brain you should check out Ramachandran, this is a few of his lectures I enjoyed. And of course there are the podcast appearances on IG, Skepticality, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, The Atheist Experience, and The Non Prophets to name a few. |
Facts! Pssh, you can prove anything even remotely true with facts.
- Homer Simpson
[God] is an infinite nothing from nowhere with less power over our universe than the secretary of agriculture.
- Prof. Frink
Lisa: Yes, but wouldn't you rather know the truth than to delude yourself for happiness?
Marge: Well... um.... [goes outside to jump on tampoline with Homer.] |
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