Richard Dawkins with Brian Greene 

I told my 6-year-old inquiring son, "Those who believe in Santa Claus have more fun at Christmas than those who don't." He chose to continue to believe in Santa for another year. I always encouraged him to be skeptical. He came to me with a huge smile one morning when he was 8 saying he proved his theory that there is no tooth fairy. I asked him what he was talking about. He said his hypothesis (his words, not mine) was that there is no tooth fairy, so he didn't tell me or his dad that he had lost a tooth at dinner, and when he woke up the tooth was still under his pillow. I couldn't have been more proud of my little scientist.

I shall never tire of Richard Dawkins, love his wit and his work.

I'm always hungry for formidable interlectrial minds talking and allowing us to listen in. Thank you 92Y

I thoroughly enjoyed Brian Greene's method of conducting the great Mr. Dawkins interview. It was poignant, well thought out, but more importantly, it was FUNNY! :-) I look forward to watching more of his stuff.

Dawkins is hillarious :D great chap

An interesting discussion between two intelligent people. What a pity so many people who have commented on it seem incapable of holding such a reasoned conversation.

Glad to see this document uploaded won't mind watching it again since the live stream. :)

Senator Bernie Sanders ended his speeches with "Thank you all!" and no mention of God. I prefer that to "and may god bless our troops!" *sighs*

Now that's an impressive tie.

Thank you for posting!

“Science is profoundly advanced most often by those who dare to think forbidden thoughts.”

nice easy discussion and very enjoyable, thank you

Why only 74 thousand views? These two people are true genius’s 👍

I love Brian, I wish he would do more of those.

Nothing fails like prayer.

When *Brian* talks turn volume *DOWN* ... When *Richard* talks turn volume *UP*

two legends...!!!

I rarely watch comfort-zone discussions but that was a great one! (mostly after rewatching the Nye/Ham debate.. YAK)

The most delightful talk. Both are wonderful educators of science and speak with sincerity, wit, and care for the betterment of humanity. Both are soft-spoken as well, which is refreshing in comparison so Neil's wonderful, but brash talks.

I first heard Professor Dawkins before he wrote “The God Delusion” on Science Friday when he was on a book tour for “The Ancestors’ Tale”. He was very good to the people who called in.

So many of the people I know can feel when they were convinced they didn’t believe any longer, but I can’t. I know I stopped believing many times but I was always was trying to “fit in” due to feeling estranged from society, but reason finally gave me no choice at all!

42:52 Ever wanted to see Richard's O-face??? xD

Just found this channel. Subbed.

Brian Greene is great!

Very, very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was really a wonderful exchange and Greene actually brought a lot of fun quotient into it without making it too draggy!!!

Perhaps the dolphins are the most intelligent organisms on this planet. They have no need for astrophysics, and no desire to "conquer Nature". So that's why we have not heard from anybody Out There.

Don't see why its funny to ask why there aren't many high profile atheist females, it's really not funny at all, if anything, she/he do have a point,nevertheless, good answer from Dawkins and it's not really a white man's club.There are so many atheists from all ethnicities and genders. Loved Dawkins wit and humour throughout the whole interview.

dawkins loves that tie

Magic has nothing on quantum mechanics. It is really the "magic" of science.

Noble journeys... of two men in the wonders of the world that don't know. @The great Agnostic!

Brilliant.

My kid was smart. I ran out of tape wrapping his Christmas presents one year, so I ended up using duct tape on a few of them. In the morning, he screams, Dad! I know which ones are from you because Santa doesn't use duct tape!. So I got credit for three crappy random presents and Santa got credit for the rest. Blah.

If we don't know what we don't know, we should admit it instead of jumping to conclusion and assume an evidence-less god did it and consequently make up prophecies and pretend to represent a god. A philosophical god is also imaginary and delusional.

99% of people don't understand relativity! LOL!

He needed coaching because he was used to a different society, much like Akeela in “Akeela and the Bee”.

George Orwell, lived as a tramp in the 1920s. A tramp has no money, no home, and no voice in society, yet Orwell’s later works changed the world and are remembered and quoted all over the world today. The question is that, is it important, and significant, that Orwell is remembered today? Does it have meaning in the overall scheme of things?

Greene's flexibility is very much appreciated.

11:24 hahahaha true that !!

55:52 lol, "crude" doesn't even begin to describe the nature of SL's "physics".

48:00 that science fiction story is also the plot of indiana jones crystal skull

Nairobi, a place of unfortunate association?😢

Dawkins - an educator of note.

Simple, god is an expression of humanity and the church is a reflection of society (at least for those who attend church) Those who believe in god lack self definition, those who bash those who believe are more religious than they know.

Thank god for Richard Dawkins.

Dawkins does not give the most succinct answer against existence of "god" or the "ultimate" creator which is that the concept of an ultimate creator leads us into an absurdity. After all if there HAS to be a "creator" then how can there be an ultimate creator without there being a creator of the ultimate creator ad absurdum.

so much fun ^v^

Physics does not has to explain the mind that evolved to a level to be able to DESIGN the world we livin'.

Has anyone asked Dawkins about the simulation hypothesis?

Jerry Coyne calls Intelligent Design Creationism in as cheap tuxedo!

At 33:50 he gives the answer to his purpose. This is consistant with Gen 3:5-6.

We are merely mortals. We will never understand it all 😳 🤨 🤔 😵‍💫

What? Are these guys saying 🎅 is not real?

Oh White man´s club ? did not realize I was in a white man´s club.

44.33 Richard Dawkins believes genes have a CALLING!

The pimply cosmic teenager in the garage creating our virtual universe ! ? Now the God of the Old Testament begins to make some sense.

I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but could we just say "You know, son, the gifts are coming from us, your parents, we have been working hard to be able to afford all that is around us and we also want to give you a gift at Christmas..." is that a bad thing to say? Sure, maybe for the ultra rich, it's a good story. Money doesn' matter etc. But for average people?

It's difficult to think of Richard Dawkins as ever having been gullible! 🤔

The god of Brain Greene is not the Abrahamic god. That shouldn't satisfy the theists, but it does, because they love equivocation on god questions..

Every thing including sound music, video, fields, energy is product of mass. We have no mass we have nothing except the empty space. Space is eternal. Right? thanks.

I like Dawkins, don't like how he can come across as a little aggressive at times, doesn't really help the cause and makes you sound less credible in a way, bullying doesn't make you right by default.

So if the "Black Cloud" did have to answers to the deep questions it would make sense that humans could not comprehend the answers it would be like telling a human to build something that can do thing that we can not even think about. I don't even know if a human can build something that can work on the level a human can so why would anyone thing that if there were a creator the creator would be able build something just as intelligent as the creator was him self. If you go back and say that everything came from nothing again we would not be able to understand how something works in an environment that has nothing so if something was working in this environment of nothing and started this whole evolutionary process we would still not be able to understand how something works in an environment that has nothing. It would however still be very satisfying because if you were able to trace all the way back to the beginnings of everything and you were able to understand how things came to be then you would be able to do anything you wanted in the lifetime of this universe. To me it would be unsatisfying to learn or understand to "deep questions" because know you would be working in a whole new environment and would essentially have to start all the way back to the beginning and you would have to learn everything about how this new environment came to be.

Time does not exist.

Is 'God' mater or any thing like that, which could be evaluated by matter(human) logic?'

I think it's strange they were disputing how they should feel if they found out God exists. They had such strong feelings about it and spent a long time on it. What difference does it make?

بسیار سپاسگزارم ، از معرفی کردن شما ، هزاربار این اتفاق افتاده ، من توضیح کاملا علمی و منطقی دارم که رد آن مشکل است ، هرکس توانست خدا را به درستی تعریف کند من جوابش را میدهم ،بیشتر کسانی که بر طبل خدا پرستی میکوبند ، او را نمیشناسند و قدرت او را نمیدانند ، ترک باورهای قدیمی بسیار سخت است ، همانطوریکه کودکان دوستان تخیلی دارند ، بزرگ سالان هم امید به وجود خدا بعنوان حامی خود دارند ، و تنها به دیده یک نیروی نامریی به آن مینگرند ، شما با یک موجود عجیب و غریب رو در رو نخواهید بود او هم ما مند شما یک انسان است ، و هیچ نیازی هم به ظاهر شدن جلوی دوربین نداشته و ندارد زندگی و کیفیت زندگی برایش مهمتر است تا کسب شهرت و ، به این گونه افراد که سوالات سطح پایین را مطرح میکنند ، باید پرسید به نظر شما چه اتفاقی باعث ایجاد هستی شده است ، که هیچ جوابی برای آن ندارند ! اگر شرایط من عوض شود شرایط بسیاری عوض خواهد شد ، و سعی من هم همین است که اسرار دارم ، و دارایی خود را تقاضا می‌کنم ،

Whether you believe in God or not, that is not the point. The most important thing in life is to be kind to your fellow human beings, to all life and to our planet. Kindness is a superpower.

Did these two having a falling out? They don't follow each other on Twitter.

it's wonderful - it's always good to have illumination of ideas and exchange of ideas . i still don't believe it's possible to know one way or the other whether there is something like a "god" .. things also seem "real" to me and i dont think there's any actual multiverse (corresponding to all the possible happenings in the world) --- it's just a math idea -- it's not real --

42:55 sex reference lolz

Obvious Reasons to Believe: 1) Obviously, you did not create yourself. 2) Obviously, you did not form the solar system. 3) Obviously, some people are just playing ignorant because Jesus's life on earth was written and documented based on a group of eye witnesses, and it was those people who wrote it. Plus , he gave us messages with sense.

Around 9 min mark, silly lies told to children...perhaps that's where his hyper-skepticism comes from.

The concept of time (rotation and revolution of the planets) alone is good enough to tell us that creation did not happen by chance. While it is sensible to refute the existence of a creator based on the Abrahamic religions, it is not wise to leave it there. In studying the systems of philosophy, it is necessary that the mind adopt a discipline of impartiality and sobriety. It must then be raised to an exalted mental condition through the process of reasoning. This intellectual function is required for the comprehension of recondite and invisible truths of matter and nature. - vjsingh.info

Jaclyn Glenn.

what is behind the believer 's childish and desperate clinging to a personal god (case of wendy Wright) supposed to have created him and to go on protecting, guiding and judging him? Simply the fact that, the more mediocre and unfit and weak a human being is, the more easily he will refuse his (anguishing) freedom (and loneliness) as an adult ant try to revert to being a child protected and guided by his "almighty" parents...

god was simple discrete machine, quantum of action.

we have to look beyond our time understanding, for time is a measurement of cycles of movement ...everything occurred spontainiously and yet they have never occurred at all. for example, if you used a film camera and recorded action then cut all the film segments up and laid them all in front of you, you will see all action at once. if you played the film on the screen one at a time at a certain speed, you will see action over time. now, if you did all that beyond the speed of light, it would be too fast to acknowledge what has occurred. so everything exists yet they don't and so it is with god

The earth is created by God, not by comets.Therefore,God does exist. Right?

Does he know that the 92Y is a Jewish Institution ?????

To break down all the lows of physics we don't need to go back to fictitious dense hot point, big bang object. The physics breaks down just when the stars go dim and dead, emitting no more photons,. That reminds us the time of first creation, before God said let there be light. Right?

The difference between physicists and biologists with respect to the possibility of God is that the usual definitions of God describe It as loving us. Biologists know more about the pain suffered by living things than physicists do.

Lol how does something come from nothing??? Uhh, well duhh! Atheists can't see the forest for the trees, plain and simple

Which time? no i don't believe in any time. Time doesn't exist.

As i said there are no limits to human's stupidty, but again he is not even a human, because humans have a brain

With the advancement in science I suspect Atheism will be gone within 40 years

(translation -- it feels to me like i am more real than math .......i love the idea of a good God --- i believe in God because it would be too dark and sad a World without God.....c'mon! why not ! )

Baby leukemia in parliament (al).

If you love the universe the birds will make you mentally ill so you fight with the environment to make it intelligent. Your supposed to make the environment intelligent so no God needed. God has been liberated and he is fully capable of evolving himself without any help. God don't want your worship he just wants to get married. Royal weddings is most watched thing on television. We fixed the video and audio for best experience possible. Cameras are supernatural and all of them captured 3D. The audio loud don't make violence so has depth. Nobody has to buy anything for it to work.

I really don't understand the "greatness" of Dawkins mentioned so many times by lot's of people. He sounds to me like an absolute beginner in philosophy. Not once a great, unique insight what so ever. Take away his English accent and slow speech and you end up with nothing interesting 🤔

39:10 show me the evidence

The idea that "the gene is the unit of selection", the idea that "the individual is the tool of the gene", the idea that "the body is the machine for passing on the genes that created it" - books like "The Selfish Gene", "The Blind Watchmaker. These are fictions that made Dawkins famous. He essentially substituted "God" for the "Gene". Fame does mean that he is true. Real solid current science backed by evidence and fact is now gradually undermining Dawkins' grand unsubstantiated speculations and instead pointing to a far more complex reality than Dawkins wants us to believe. The genome is probably more like the hard drive in a computer - full of data that is stored, and then used and processed by other controlling functions that we as yet don't fully understand, and perhaps never will. Dawkins insists that Darwin solved "the big one", that it really is "terribly simple". That is infantile, wishful thinking. Nothing in the universe is intellectually simple. Look at physics - dealing with inert DEAD matter. That should be dead simple, right? Not so, the further phycisists dive into smaller and smaller particles the stranger it gets. Why would biology be simpler? Key quotes from Dawkins regarding what he expressed in his book “The Selfish Gene”: “It’s I suppose my most original contribution.” “It’s not really a testable hypothesis, it’s just a different way of looking at what is already familiar”. - So in other words pure conjecture, to put it bluntly. How is that even better than religion?

"Which God?" : You know what? God is not matter and cannot be pointed to. Right?

6:22 mins of Dawkins, had enough! still is naive...

13:00 Brian Green... man and women..... realist man an idealist women is a great original combo! imo

"..Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind." Job 12:9-10 (NIV) “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16 (NASB) "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) Near death experiences show us there is an afterlife .. You can watch a video with John Burke here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dq3xirn7te8.html You can watch the Alpha film series here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kf1TOTRCT1g.html You can hear the gospel here: www.peacewithgod.net

I would take your bet but I believe gambling promotes sinful behavior. You couldn't pay up from the lake of fire. I will pray for you chaps but do believe if you can't see how obvious God is our creator and Jesus was God himself and died for my sins and yours too, God help you and you have been warned.

Dick Dawk, um ... kins must feel himself omnipotent. Says there is no God. Good Dawky, Dick.