The Unbelievers Q&A Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss & Penn Jillette 

Religious nuts particularly hate Lawrence Krauss because he says things like "forget Jesus, stars died so you could be born." Which is a powerful statement.

IMPRESSED with Dawkins' wife knowing that she hand-paints all of his ties. Astonishing and beautiful!

Richard , you open my eye, i was a theist but now i am proudly a new atheist.

Somebody get that man a tripod, I felt sea-sick watching this.

richard dawkins open my mind to reality if it wasn't for him i don't think i would have come so far on my journey to atheism, i didn't think anyone thought like me till i found out about him

Is the camera man drunk?

I hold my lighter for Christopher "The Hitch" Hitchens.

Richard Dawkins is so adorable @ 29:10 - I wish I knew him personally.

Looking forward to watching this later on when i got time, some of my favorite people :)

Super! This stuff energizes me when I'm feeling down on the world.

What a beautiful moment was the part of Richard's tie!

Knowledge is knowledge,why cant we see it as such.Knowledge based on science,reason and evidence is just about right but knowledge of self upon which all knowledge rest is equally valid.Knowledge of self has no religion,its all about you/i.without this you/i everything is meaningless even if they exist. Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss are great people,we must learn from them.They have so much to contribute and i have indeed learnt from them esp Richard Dawkins..

18:45 LOL!!!! "Mr Teller" PJ: "Doesn't matter to me..." Awesome

What an awesome gift for Dawkins from his wife.

I was delighted to hear Dawkins give a nod to the great Carl Sagan!

Just stellar!!

Lawrence Krause is so authentic!

Thanks for sharing.

I came here for Dawkins and Krauss, but I loved Gillette's comment that we should respect people. I loved that comment.

I love that he addressed the word theory. It’s should be string hypothesis!

That was nice. You know, a lot of these talks are better than the movie.

We do not all have a sence of awe. I live.

Dawkins is spot on at 46 mins

WHY IS NO ONE CHECKING ON/CARING FOR THE CAMERAMAN !!!!! HE IS OBVIOUSLY HAVING A SEIZURE !!!!!

Nice little talk. I wish the camerapeople could have decided on their zooming. Having the zoom constantly go in and out even while focusing on one person talking is distracting.

entrancing video

Dawkins has interesting thoughts on why north America still has such a problem with the persistence of religion. He suggests that it might be the free enterprise, competing nature of American religion, in contrast to the boring, imposed from above, state religions of Europe.

Mr. Teller that was great

This video is from April 2014

32:17 ... It is remarkable to hear an atheist materialist like Richard Dawkins stating that he wants to know/discover the "nature" of consciousness ... This statement of his is on the one (ideological/philosophical) hand rather enigmatic and on the other hand rather promising. ..... Who knows what the future may bring ? ... One thing is certain ... Science and philosophy (!) are fascinating and exciting ... :)

what if we change it from "the theory of evolution" and just start calling it "the model of evolution"

The idea that our politicians are among the brightest of us has been increasingly difficult to support. Certainly they have often been the wealthiest among us, but ignorance still abounds in their ranks.

the question at 14:45 that richard was addressing they were talking about natural selection and being able to predict the future of a species undergoing natural selection i think a simpler way of answering that then the way dawkins put it is thats basically what artificial selection does to a degree it shows potential and of course very real paths a species can go down.

I fucking love these people.

I love that the advertisement prior to this video was an "explore God" commercial 😂😂😂

The mud dauber is truly an extraordinary creature.

52:00 recode of evolution sys 10 (Mac) req see blind watchmaker-climbing Mt probable [biomorph]

It's a good video, but the quality is horrible. There's probably plenty of videographers out there that would shoot it for free.

To add more to the answer to the last question from the biologist teacher about the Biomorphs program, here are some working re-implementations of the original Dawkins' program, in various languages. Some are ready-to-run apps and do not require you to be a developer in order to run them. There is even an Android app! Non-exhaustive list: Linux / Windows executables: www.rennard.org/alife/english/biomgb.html Online app: www.emergentmind.com/biomorphs Another online app, written in JavaScript: mtzynb.github.io/ (program sources at github.com/mtzynb/biomorph) Program sources in Python: gatc.ca/projects/biomorph-evolve/ The "Blind Watchmaker" app for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alec.blind.android&hl=fr&gl=US

Excellent documentary film by two extremely talented film makers. This Q & A session was hugely entertaining and informative. However, please, please, RDFRS can you find some people at the venues you visit who know how to hold a camera still. The camera movement is annoying and detracts from the concentration one must exert to take in what the speakers are on about.

about the AI question: Biological Brains evolved in an environment in which their goals were set to eat, mate and survive in generel. Even if you use evolutionary algorithsms to create AIs this would be a form of breeding. so the only goal of this evolution would be "to be liked by humans" which could translate to "appear as humanlike as possible". The need to survive for example is nothing that puffs into existence in a Mind when the factor of dying has never had an influence in his evolution.

Questioner: We HAVE human minds, we don't need to simulate them!

44:00 Dr. Dawkins points out the problem with using the word spiritual. Can't be spiritual when you don't have a spirit.

Anyone else learn more from this than they did from the movie?

What could life look like in the future? What creatures could evolve in 100 million years, for example, given what we know about life on Earth and the principles of evolution? Will similarly strange and unusual creatures evolve in the future? I believe in the Darwinian theory of evolution, and I have many questions, including apes today, after millions of years, what will be their evolution?

I played the video and thought that was Paul Heyman in the middle.

Can I ask what they mean when they say that human consciousness was an 'accident'? define the word 'accident' - was it not meant to happen or were they just referring to how nearly impossible it was that we are, let alone living in the universe, but also have required this intelligence, knowledge, awareness and Consciousness? Human evolution is so fascinating and Beautiful. I am so grateful to live and especially in the same time line as these guys and also the wonderful Derren Brown :-)

0:46 that literal fedora tip

Love the audio, but camera work is suboptimal

Really looking forward to seeing this movie, as far as I can tell it isn't available on UK Netflix yet. What is extremely encouraging to see is the groundswell against religion. In an ever more connected world we see that the problems that face us have their roots in religion which after all has been the guiding 'wisdom' behind our ruling classes for millennia. We desperately need to move on and religion will no longer be able to suppress science despite the best efforts of the media corporates and the neoliberalists. I'm quite sure the Pope would like to silence Dawkins as he did Galileo if this were possible today. We face major problems and our very survival is in doubt, causality is certainly in religion and belief in the supernatural because we don't commonly adopt rational discourse and behaviours. The greatest evil (I don't use the word lightly) that religion does is to delude people and rob them of reason through fear - it is the tool used to instil faith through abuse of the imagination. It is corruption on a global scale.

the host sold some books to Joey in Friends show. 50 greens it was

For Science’s sake can someone tell me which film are they talking about?

What movie were they talking about?

EXCUSE ME WHAT FILM ON RADIOHEAD?

Is one logically inconsistent if one condemns factory farming but condones vivisection ? Given his disapproval of the former (see R.Dawkins podcast “Yes Animals Feel Pain too”) I wonder what his stance is on the latter. I’ve yet to see anyone ask him this question.

What movie they are talking about?

What is the title of the film they refer to?

what movie are they talking about??

What film are they talking about?

best part is 15:30 .... does he believe in God?

here is what comes to mind when someone asks me does god exist - the more knowledge your consciousness absorbs, the farther you grow from the illusion of reality. 'Reality" being the materialistic power-struggle over green velvet paper, and those within that realm who blindly follow within this "reality". I think the people who know what I'm talking about, will identify with what I'm about to say. Once you've TRULY broken through that illusion, you go through a phase where you no longer see "purpose" in life. Not in a depressive context. You still desire life, but you no longer feel as if you have a real "purpose", because you've broken the illusion of "reality", and it wasn't meant to be broken. Since you can now see outside of this "reality", you begin to feel cursed. Almost regretful that you broke this illusion. You do not regret the knowledge, but you regret the outcome of understanding the knowledge itself. You're now free, but the freedom seems virtually useless. I went through another phase two years ago. I began to focus more and more on every single present moment of my life and began to train myself to never let a single moment go by without experiencing it and capturing it. Love and Fear, are the only two real emotions, everything else is just a variation of those two basic emotions. Joy and Depression, are only variations of Love and Fear, and once you understand that, you begin to realize that the complexity of the human mind can be broken down and you will begin to truly truly truly understand yourself for the first time ever in your life. So, what is happiness? Is it purpose? Is ignorance bliss? Is it enlightenment? The journey to enlightenment? Personally, I believe happiness is the ability to fully exist moment to moment in a balanced aspect. Being able to exist happily in every present moment, makes the past one with the present, and the future able to co-exist with the present. It's quite amazing how music can translate thoughts for us

What film??? I would love to watch it if someone would only be kind enough to educate me.

I’m sorry, but the appalling camera-work started to give me motion sickness and I gave up at about the 20 minute mark. Up to that point the content was excellent.

I don't know how you can ascribe to the idea that man knows enough about the Universe to BELIEVE in science rather then just using it to navigate along with all things we experience and call yourself "unbelievers". And yet here are Dawkins and Krauss holding to the idea that humans are just another form of life and yet so special that we can trust our understanding of the Universe to other humans.

It seems to be impossible to change the ignorant from using the term "Theory". It seems to me it would be easier to have scientists to change the name of a more proven idea. "Theorem" seems to be a better choice, as it would be less confusing.

A evolutionary conscience becomes self aware like skynet.

Is that Emery Emery @ 8:00 ?

22:20 How much are you willing to bet creationists are going to quote mine this?

If you can't describe consciousness how can you rule out spirituality.

Damn, I've seen this one before, thought it was new

Surely those of us who are atheists should have a short and useful summary of fundamental beliefs? For starters : 1. An atheist is one who believes there are no gods ( G Oppy) 2 We come from dust and thereto will return (Dawkins) 3 Death is the end and " Has dominion" (Hitchins)

Fedora tipping intensifies

Was Einstein a believer?

wtf lawrence skipping out to do what?

Yeah but the hats and stuff,

Lawrence looks a lot like Teller...until he talks.

The camera man is fucking things up

At 11:23 Lawrence flushes his intelligence down the drain.

What a panel…only missing sam harris… and the late great Christopher Hitchens.

oh shit! 18.45 in.... "Mr. Teller" damn dude, you done fucked up :D

29:05 All Atheists are pirates

Celebrities are tastemakers? To whom?

what film are they talking about?😂 sorry for my stupidity

Does Sam Harris and his justification of torture appear in the "Unbelievers" ?

buy a tripod please

Last question did suck IMO

Lawrence Krauss hogs the mike

Is it safe to assume all those dudes wearing hat indoors are Americans?

Please in spanish language 🙏

Camera person is making me nauseous

Camera man needs to be fired

We generally don't do any of this stuff in the UK or even most of western Europe. We generally don't do believer, non-believer or agnostic. If we had a term for our general position it would be NO POSITION. We generally don't own a bible, read a bible or go to church except for traditional weddings and funerals. We might put CofE on a birth certificate or census form but only because that's what it said on ours. Only 1 in 60 Brits go to church. The NO POSITION is the position we hold wrt having a favourite colour or number or wrt UFOs or ghosts. We might watch a TV programme on UFOs or ghosts but only for entertainment. Sorry I have forgotten to use the word generally but please accept that I always mean generally. NO POSITION means not going there, not checking out the cosmological argument or the argument from design. We have never heard anyone say hallelujah and if we did we would move away from them. Even our churches don't sell anything other than BELIEF and FAITH and haven't really done anything other since Soren Kierkegaard. Neither do we read Darwin or Dawkins on evolution. We just take Plato's advise "if you have a medical problem, see a doctor". That is, we don't read medical books if we have an illness, we trust the NHS and medical science. Similarly, we don't try to audit physicists, chemists or Dawkins. We are just happy that there are millions of scientist in thousands of disciplines doing their core business and giving us cures for Ebola and Zika.

Has Dawkins and other rudely adamant atheists considered and allegedly refuted the Transcendental Argument for the existence of God? It’s seems to be faith to always be able to trust in the objectivity of the universe.

It's hard to take back the word "theory" because the word we *should* be using, "hypothesis", just kinda feels awkward.

Maybe God is mathematics?

A white non-gay telling me Glenn Beck supporters are "nice" lol. Need I say more?

Why does every atheist love Richard so much.

I hope Mr Dawkins will respond and help me answer this question. anyone else who has a reasonable, rational, answer, I would appreciate it, contemplate it, credit it and possibly adopt that answer as sufficient ,only if the responder kept to certain, polite rules,,no profanity, name calling or unrelated to the subject, intentionally inflammatory or derogatory remarks,,please, I signed up here to learn ,not feel , please teach, dont preach. Anyways,,,, Mr Dawkins, 30 minutes into the video you said something that shocked me, you said, " I don't believe that we can have an absolute right or wrong, I don't think there can be absolutes in morality", ( I hope I quoted that correctly), .I must respectively disagree,, and I must honestly admit I did not know you held this view.. I thought we were looking for, gathering consensus and specifically defining morality, in order to objectively but absolutely , judge actions, ideas, dogmas, laws, and the like. I agree absoluteness is very hard to find, cultural diversity makes it almost impossible, but the way you said that with such certainty,,,well ... and I hope you understand I think you're like this too, my little "bell of truth " (ie: truth rings) went dead silent, after ringing continuously for a half hour. or how it does since the very first time I saw on RU-vid a new word, clicked on it just out of curiosity, and flipped the universe upside down. The word was...... Hitchslap, ,,... my question .which is more of a challenge,, can you refute this moral absolute,,,,,,,,,, to kill for the sole purpose of a perceived pleasure to be gained at the moment of the killing is wrong, IMMORAL ALWAYS ........ I see in my mind the wealthy, big game hunter , African safari type, in his trophy room of death, and him saying phrases like " thrill of the hunt" or pleasure of the kill", this also applies to many, regular everyday hunters, all the way down to the nasty little brat with a BB gun shooting birds and cats for fun. it's not the kill it's the reason for it that it is immoral, and I believe it is absolute. Thank you in advance for suffering through my long windedness.

Why does atheism have to become a movement?

Most of the problem is how atheists and theists talk to each other... If I call you an idiot are you going to listen to what I have to say?