Pioneer Works hosted the prolific and influential biologist Richard Dawkins in conversation with our Director of Sciences, Janna Levin, on November 14, 2016. Subscribe to Pioneer Works: www.youtube.co... • Until the End of Time:...
I would just like to point out that above you made a rudimentary spelling mistake, allow me to highlight it for you. "But you wouldn't now that"...I'm sure you're aware of the difference between know and now but if you are so insistent on being a snob, take extra care. It makes you look bad.
Nicky, well thank you for taking your time to read 6 of my posts in a row looking for something to pick on. Believe it or not even Google fucks up sometimes. It actually modifies a word or two here and there post post. Can you dig that? Post post? Hey, have you ever experienced having an original thought? I don't mean a thought that won't coincide with someone else's. I mean a spontaneous thought regardless of whether someone else had it too. The rule is if you're not copycatting then it's original. By the way, the fellow to whom I directed those posts kind of vanished. It appears he couldn't take the heat and deleted his channel. Sooner or later he'll resurface with a new name and hopefully with a grammar course under his belt. The fellow was truly a dimwit writer. I guess shame got the best of him.
Nicky, there is a rudimentary grammatical mistake in your post. And that is only one post compared to six of mine. "I would just like to point out that above you made a rudimentary spelling mistake, allow me to highlight it for you." You should place a semicolon (;) after "mistake" since you're stating another complete sentence. Either that or place a period (.) after "mistake" and then begin with, "Allow me . . ." It makes you look bad. And I find it interesting that you would make a mistake after "mistake." Get it? Mistake after mistake? Error after error? Don't worry, though. Everyone fucks up here and there.
Nicky? Interesting. Nowhere does it say that to be my name. I am utterly astonished that you would make so many assumptions of me based on next to nothing, it really does say a lot about you. You are simply one of "those" RU-vid commenters looking for trouble! I don't even know why I am here, I rarely get involved as it is truly a waste of time when I could be studying...progressing in my own life. One last thing, I never conducted myself as the grammar snob, you on the other hand, well you did! You deserve to be called out. Bye. Go read a book on evolution, open your mind to evidence.
Nicky -- Didn't your mom call you "NIcky," Nicky Boy? It's interesting how you came out as a friendly neighbor offering to correct a mistake and then, once I pointed out your mistake, you're suddenly showing teeth the size of a dagger. Yeah, go study evolution and remain a deluded fool.
Just a note on what he says about never having been to Iran at 59.22; well, yes, it would be dangerous because of the current regime for a man of his views to go there. But the people are extremely welcoming, they are the bearers of an uninterrupted millenia-old culture that places much emphasis on science and knowledge, and if you look at the number of publications in scientific journals today, they are doing really well, especially considering the regime and its problematic international relations.
I totally agree. I've had female friends who went to iran and loved the country and its people. Rick Steve's video shows the same thing. I've had several Iranian students and friends who are as intelligent, cultured, articulate and knowledgeable as anyone you could meet. And I've been learning a lot about the rich history aod culture of Persia for 2,000 years i the past few years
As loud as Dawkins' socks are, I'm afraid they still lose out to Levin's legs in terms of being a magnet for my eyes. She reminds me of my favorite social studies teacher from H.S., who had great legs and liked to show them off with a modestly short dress. I hated social studies, but I definitely liked her.
Dawkins is always fascinating. Wouldn't it be nice to have more people of reason like him? No need to answer. It's a rhetorical question. (As an aside, Dr. Levin did an excellent job in interviewing Dr. Dawkins.)
sad to hear his marriage ended and he suffered a stroke also. happy though it did not damagage his great mind. andhopefull his voiice will make a complete recovery. not ready to lose another great mind and debater
when the male gets a female he gets a prize, when the female gets a male she gets rather little.. 33:40 that suppressed smile on janna's face, priceless =o)
32:26 Notice in other species the females don't display for sex as much as males. (e.g bird song, frog grib-bit, goldfish /carp males [they're gold]) Why then do only human females display for sex like they do? Answer she is not displaying for sex. She is displaying for food and protection. (Note e.g hookers are not displaying for sex: sex is bait.) (There are two planes of selection ("imperatives of life"): 1 survive (eat, be immune), THEN less important 2 reproduce (breed/convert food). Somewhere along the line male humans started giving the females food etc (as part of their male v male competition). That opened up a new niche where female humans were competing against each other to get the most from men (on the first plane of selection). Fem hums perpetually display "ovulation" so as to always get the payments. Now the female humans just do it because they 'want to' or "feel naked without it" /...'morning ritual', unthinking. ...Both nature and nurture snowballing along unthinkingly. (Western males are VERY tolerant of female wants.) But that "wanting" is a chemical chain reaction/ compulsion /instinct. Out of all the variant chemical compulsions in the litter this one did best for a reason the creature itself doesn't know. ...It is like saying "the male whale jumps out of the ocean and smashes down on it because he wants to." YES. But that "want" was selected for a reason the whale doesn't know. (It signals to other male whales to beat it.) "Wants /behaviors" are just like any trait: chemical variants being selected between unwittingly. E.g leopard spots or deer antlers etc etc. Self reporting is the least accurate form of evidence. Even worse than regular ole "eyewitness testimony". ..... Soft sciences -- like bio /ethology etc -- make predictions from a fact based framing. ................ From my above ... "(Western males are VERY tolerant of female wants.)" This little parenthetical thing is relevant too... 1 Notice humans are very abstract creatures. (e.g outfits, money, words) 2 Both genders use to ostentatiously strut about. Then the Western and Chinese males stopped fopping about in garish outfits because of the male v male coups/revolutions to pull down higher males. CONCLUSION... The west fem human is "pre /counter revolution." And west males let her get away with it still (as part of their male vs male competition). Grey clothes for all!! Viva la revolution! .................... Another reason for makeup may be more poignant... Humans are smart / use tools. (Dames too to a CERTAIN [feeble] degree.) So back in caveman days, a less attractive female, witnessed 13 springs come and go ... and still no man won her in battle and raped her yet. She was miserable. So she went down to -- or the other dames took her down to -- the river where the red mud etc was; ...used this 'tool' [being humans] to solve the problem. Then it became an arms race each gen -- i.e even the pretty dames did it too. That IS a sexual display; so yeah. BUT still other species females don't overly display. BUT but humans are 'smart' /use tools (even dames to a feeble degree -- especially matronly ones). So it may be both a sexual display AND a camouflage TRICK at the same time. (Like a cod piece -- an 'equalizer' and display, stemming possi from a protective desire.) Note human genders DO wear high heels to cover up a weakness [short-ness] originally. (We say now it is because the female wants to elongate the calf and shrink the foot. But that may be 'post hoc rationalization.')
@@CapitalJ2 Answer: she is not displaying for sex. She is displaying for food and protection. (Note e.g hookers are not displaying for sex: sex is bait.) Also... The west fem human is "pre /counter revolution." And west males let her get away with it still (as part of their male vs male competition).
Dr Levin is the brainiest, baddest astrophysicist there is and highly regarded! Check our some of her videos on Startalk, her intelligence will blow your mind!
Richard may be perceived as a rough person, but his perspective is eye-opening every time you listen to him, and his understanding of his field is impressive and humbling at the same time. How much science and our understanding of the word that surrounds us has improved and is still improving the lives of all of us, simple apes, gives hope for the brighter future.
What is " science "? It is a word. It means what the English says it means or what the English has been told. E'lm - عِلْم It's a word that means what the English call science. A'llam - عَلَّم A word that means "he taught". Olim - عُلِم A word that means ( understood ). Note that all the three words are Arabic and are all written in the same three letters in the same order therefore there must be a strong connection between the meanings, and there surely is. That is an example of a language that has been preserved in a book and in that book there is many challenges for who doesn't believe by it. It is more than 1400 years old.
When someone is intelligent, it shows in all aspects of life. I could not agree more with his idea of buying bags of socks rather than being limited to a pair. Another example (one not meant to be half-silly) is the idea to cut out moderators in debates and discussions. The Dawkins appearances where the hosts follow that idea are vastly better than the ones with moderators. I think Dawkins and Larry David would get along, at least in their shared tendency to constantly be inventing ways to improve everyday life.
Maybe Burmese Buddhism is different, but the Dalai Lama has said that anything in Buddhism that conflicts with science should be rejected. I agree with him on the whole, particularly as regards extreme or even moderate Xtianity or Islam, and I am an atheist, but sometimes he makes generalization about religion that demonstrate a lack of knowledge of subtle distinctions (I hasten to add that I consider the Selfish Gene to be a work of genius and it certainly shook up and organized my knowledge of Biology as a yg biol grad student
I’ve always wondered - we know that there are thousands of species we are yet to discover (oceanic especially). I wonder if it would be possible (I would imagine more expedient too) that if we are able to map the ‘genetic tree’ of all life that we know of, that the ‘math’ might then also identify ‘probable’ species based on what we know exists. Perhaps then also what sorts of habitats etc that may foster such a species. This way, perhaps if we have an ‘idea’ of a species that we are looking for and perhaps for instance the type of environment we may find it in, that it would perhaps be a more expeditious way (and compounded way) of discovering species. Perhaps this is already happening?
If global warming was a problem, the equatorial areas would be deserts. On the contrary, the equatorial areas are rain forest areas. Plant more trees to reclaim the deserts caused by deforestation. Plants need more CO2 to give you food and oxygen. More forests will also lower the sea level.
Joan. Most have identity crisis and heart is weaker. Lower back ganglion for stress on spinal cord. Almost all old people have spinal dysfunction mostly leading to amnesia. The first heart attack. Strong spinal cord means better evolution history.
In the discussion of elvolving states of Bio-logical interpretation of phenomena, the Anthropic Principle In-form-ation relies on the weird and mysterious programmers who get the fine constants just right, but the living organisms very approximate circumstantially..? (Doesn't make sense out of exploding chaos) So instead of dissapation and death, the innate symmetrical balance of recirculation cycles and proportioning converge on metastable resonances driven by AM-FM communication quantization mechanism of modules, an unsuspected situation in which everything is partially "alive" and definitely active in relative degree of coherence-cohesion pulses. It doesn't make sense for an individual, but population dynamics is more understandable, it's so "generously" wasteful by comparison, in an eternal feedback system. (No external thesis required for actual Existence in Cartesian quantum dualism) Merging of chemical compounds in modular cells is the inevitable consequence of circulation, (resistance is futile), because it's the QM-TIMESPACE Principle In-form-ation formulation of time duration timing modulation. The "balance of life", predator-prey selection pattern is the natural occurring conception of probability in potential possibilities of e-Pi-i interference positioning resonance. Someone's thesis on Sex was based on predator-prey investment in balance, and one should be careful about what dangers are hidden in attractive camouflage. No matter how much indoctrination of children is tried, if the information is insufficient to produce the promised results.., then those who remain in the re-ligion, or any other institutional congregations, are most likely to be "hiding in the light", for alternate reasons to those promoted, which is why Science and Technology are, (well maybe there's a problem with funding?), refining the search for meaning and purpose relative to actual (constructive meme) culture.
You lost me at two and a half minutes in speaking about former President Trump. Here we are September of 2023 and the world did not blow up or go crashing down because of his presidency. So sick and tired of liberal scientists not staying grounded in the science.
Real spirituality is actually Ontological not religious. Like how Buddhism is about seperation of the being from the noise in your head. So your attachment to this noise is useless in the end lighten up☺😂🙋♂️so no dogma dog
*It takes power* to order ATP molecules. It takes power to order the structure of elements. It takes power to form stars. You have no explanation for where the power came from other than to appeal to more physical things, which themselves, require power to exist. Can atheists admit the problem?
*It takes energy to order energy.* You can appeal to another and yet another universe and it will never solve the problem for where the energy came from until you arrive at an all powerful source of energy so that your appeal to more and more energy is an appeal to God. The same thing holds true for more and more possibilities. You would have to include all possibilities, which is also an appeal to God so that you have an all powerful, all knowing ordering and later a programming of bound up energy/ matter so the Bible is true, from the beginning. There is an all powerful all knowing Maker of everything there is.
As I post on utube vids displaying this topic hear this: if one requires a book to validate their religion one has NO faith. Therein is the rub and contradiction with 'believers' (whatever the hell that means) - they on one hand demand faith w/out proof Yet YET, rely on manmade scripture for their faith/beliefs. No book/dogma, no faith. The irony is astonishing isn't it? Tragic. But also, what fails to ever be spoken of in these vids and I've watched them all, i.e. Hitchen, Harris, Lennox et al is none of these men discuss the indigenous spiritual path of tribal peoples which is where ALL the truths can be found. The extreme ego/vanity/conceit/narcissism in religion that DENIES and CONDEMNS tribal cultures is why christians en mass are shameful bigots - has to be THEIR god only who matters. So to the 'believers' I say this to you: nobody is denying your belief in anything you deem vital but for the love of fkn god/goddess, keep they religion to thy'self I beg you. The 21st century has no need for it nor does our beloved mother earth the ONLY deity you need to worship and care for. Islam, Judaism, Christianity do NOT own faith. They ruin it. Period. Aho!
A true atheist invariably has the capacity to be real. And if we are going to be really real, we have to admit that if God actually does exist, then hey, we ain’t nothing compare to Him. The weak atheist not the strong atheist, will, at this juncture, do double back flips, trying to avoid this reality, if God indeed exists. Atheism solves this great inferiority problem, hence its appeal. If God exists, who has supposedly created everything, then hey, He has some real greatness huh. But that greatness, obviously diminishes our greatness doesn’t it. Why? Because we don’t even begin to compare with it. Therefore our greatness or worthwhile-ness is so insignificant compared to His greatness, that we can’t feel as proud of ourselves, as much as we’d like to, because God is so much greater. Get it? His greatness diminishes our greatness. But when we remove Him out of the picture and say hey He ain’t there, He doesn’t exist, we start feeling pretty good about ourselves without the big guy raining on our parade. That’s the real deal. But hey, the truth is that He does exist. Although you can feel good and start to swell when you pretend He ain’t there. Because actually it’s a pretence. A subtle form of pretension. But the bummer is that yep you’ll feel good alright being an atheist but hey it all ends bad. Nope it’s not going to be good at all. Heaven and hell and all that jazz. Reject God, He rejects you. God knows we have this inferiority problem. Right?It’s not rocket science. Wanna talk about it some more then give me a yell and I’ll say some more.
I'm not sure if the 'good christians' who are posting their ridiculous, inarticulate comments on this video realise that by doing so they are living up to the stereotype... Also, why seek out a video on a person who you obviously abhor and comment..I don't look for pro religion videos so I can ridicule them. I can only assume that they are afraid of science, scared that Dawkins and the like are making sense and reducing their religion to what it is, an ancient superstition based on fear.
Speaking as someone who was raised in evangelical churches and attended Christian school- it has a lot to do with willful ignorance, but also that people need a scapegoat or someone to direct their hatred, anger, inadequacies & shortcomings, etc. which is portrayed throughout the Bible. When Christians are super judgmental and mean I feel like they’re just revealing their own hatred and will to impose their authority over EVERY LIVING THING because they feel otherwise powerless in this world. Maybe it could also be called an ego thing, as in fragile egos that have a need to be right or above others.
Sunday Service. ...scientology has it's similarity, where it has a main fruitcake story (if christ/darest is crazy , should read scientolgy) The point of the crazy stroy is that it is just that. A story. The problem is the behaviour: It copies the door knocking/gutenberg/modernity(Film) technique. ie. Greenpeace is the same - but at least they don't getaway with murder in private (it gets found out, and normally protest is public on purpose) I myself am being hounded by Channel9. Pretty much the same thing - they use the ability to remotely doctor your mental and physical state, and pretend that it's abouteither creating wedding events, or paedophile walk to the ocean events. Did it to my mother 2wice, finally got her to kill herself in comfort at home: hence they use her death for euthansia.
Greenpeace, in spite of its faults, generally fights real huge quantifiable injustices & environmental harms, not imaginary untestable unprovable unfalsifiable bullshit such as what comes after death. It's main fault is that it weakens itself by being anti-war, idiotically, when it SHOULD advocate FOR the environment.
Advocating for the environment, according to greenpeace, incase you have forgotten thier arguments include: Removing the male population. Killing all city activity Making sure that humanity dies first and only the anmals are left behind. Looks like a religion to me. The fact that it holds onto the hippie era, and submits too "free love" and free drugs....makes them look like they are being controlled with a defined end game: Dopification of the populous for walking the ext generation out into the ocean to commit suicide, for the good of mudda earth.
/ Please look for the secrets of the first bacteria that appeared in the earth . The bacteria evolved into multiple cells . We hope to discover the secrets of the origin of the first bacteria on Earth . Bacteria have only one cell . What are the stages of the emergence of the first bacteria on Earth? . We ask you to work, research and discover in order to explain the secrets of the origin of the first bacteria life on Earth
32:26 Notice in other species the females don't display for sex as much as males. (e.g bird song, frog grib-bit, goldfish /carp males [they're gold]) Why then do only human females display for sex like they do? Answer she is not displaying for sex. She is displaying for food and protection. (Note e.g hookers are not displaying for sex: sex is bait.) (There are two planes of selection ("imperatives of life"): 1 survive (eat, be immune), THEN less important 2 reproduce (breed/convert food). Somewhere along the line male humans started giving the females food etc (as part of their male v male competition). That opened up a new niche where female humans were competing against each other to get the most from men (on the first plane of selection). Fem hums perpetually display "ovulation" so as to always get the payments. Now the female humans just do it because they 'want to' or "feel naked without it" /...'morning ritual', unthinking. ...Both nature and nurture snowballing along unthinkingly. (Western males are VERY tolerant of female wants.) But that "wanting" is a chemical chain reaction/ compulsion /instinct. Out of all the variant chemical compulsions in the litter this one did best for a reason the creature itself doesn't know. ...It is like saying "the male whale jumps out of the ocean and smashes down on it because he wants to." YES. But that "want" was selected for a reason the whale doesn't know. (It signals to other male whales to beat it.) "Wants /behaviors" are just like any trait: chemical variants being selected between unwittingly. E.g leopard spots or deer antlers etc etc. Self reporting is the least accurate form of evidence. Even worse than regular ole "eyewitness testimony". ..... Soft sciences -- like bio /ethology etc -- make predictions from a fact based framing. ................ From my above ... "(Western males are VERY tolerant of female wants.)" This little parenthetical thing is relevant too... 1 Notice humans are very abstract creatures. (e.g outfits, money, words) 2 Both genders use to ostentatiously strut about. Then the Western and Chinese males stopped fopping about in garish outfits because of the male v male coups/revolutions to pull down higher males. CONCLUSION... The west fem human is "pre /counter revolution." And west males let her get away with it still (as part of their male vs male competition). Grey clothes for all!! Viva la revolution! .................... Another reason for makeup may be more poignant... Humans are smart / use tools. (Dames too to a CERTAIN [feeble] degree.) So back in caveman days, a less attractive female, witnessed 13 springs come and go ... and still no man won her in battle and raped her yet. She was miserable. So she went down to -- or the other dames took her down to -- the river where the red mud etc was; ...used this 'tool' [being humans] to solve the problem. Then it became an arms race each gen -- i.e even the pretty dames did it too. That IS a sexual display; so yeah. BUT still other species females don't overly display. BUT but humans are 'smart' /use tools (even dames to a feeble degree -- especially matronly ones). So it may be both a sexual display AND a camouflage TRICK at the same time. (Like a cod piece -- an 'equalizer' and display, stemming possi from a protective desire.) Note human genders DO wear high heels to cover up a weakness [short-ness] originally. (We say now it is because the female wants to elongate the calf and shrink the foot. But that may be 'post hoc rationalization.')
@@quietrage2891 Wasn't asking for your confirmation. @TO SERVE: "Notice in other species the females don't display for sex as much as males." Rhetorical. You types are simply admitting you haven't noticed something everyone else has.
Cute: Using language as the main tenant to the backout topology. Are you slowly going to introduce "security system" , the "black sheep" Great. What did Viet.Aus.Aria state: sit back and enjoy the music.
God made all life from in the beginning able to reproduce from the start within the kinds of life that God chose to exist. Within the kinds, the natural variation has happened for God made all life to have the "instructions" within the genes from the start allow much room for variation. He commanded all life to go forth and multiply! Intelligent Instructions don't evolve mindlessly! Nothing within the theory of evolution can explain the existence of intelligent outcomes from mindless steps. For this generation to deny that life all over the earth is a result of intelligent design means we truly are a wretched and lost . civilization. Richard cannot prove evolution theory is true in nature only very elloquently in his highly paid forums.
U lost me at "influential" and "reason" in referencing richard Dawkins who says that anyone that doesn't believe the way he does should be made fun of.
Michael: No he doesnt say that. Anyone is free to believe what they want. But no one is above ridicule. That includes religion. If you believe stupid shit on piss poor evidence, yes you should be ridiculed for holding stupid beliefs. Why shouldnt you?
Well, I was going to listen but they started out political. And yes Richard. You are not American. So do not comment about things you do not understand.