Charlie Rose

acor  11/08/2009 02:12 PM Report

It's always funny when the great charge leveled against religion is that there is no evidence for it. No atheist ever is willing to try to use this argument on their own views. Why is that exactly? Could it be that the question of God is unfalsifiable? Anyone who tries to use an evidence and science based argument for atheism are often times confused about what science actually is.

This goes to Dawkins and his followers. If you need absolutely everything and every view to be able to be subjected to testability then please give us the evidence for atheism or stop using that argument.

It seems like the meme of atheism can also have its evolutionarily derived defenses against criticism too...

acor  11/08/2009 02:12 PM Report

It's always funny when the great charge leveled against religion is that there is no evidence for it. No atheist ever is willing to try to use this argument on their own views. Why is that exactly? Could it be that the question of God is unfalsifiable? Anyone who tries to use an evidence and science based argument for atheism are often times confused about what science actually is.

This goes to Dawkins and his followers. If you need absolutely everything and every view to be able to be subjected to testability then please give us the evidence for atheism or stop using that argument.

It seems like the meme of atheism can also have its evolutionarily derived defenses against criticism too...

Grisha  05/17/2009 12:51 AM Report

Very amusingly ironic bit when Dawkins suggests that religion's apparent immunity to criticism, the cogency of religious indoctrination, and religion's various defenses against refutation may have gradually arisen as the result of a cumulative evolutionary process.

iconicscooter  01/18/2009 09:02 AM Report

If someone accused you of a crime you would require evidence. If someone makes a claim they need to provide evidence. We live in an empirical world; evidence required.

Science seeks its own falsification, to find out where it's wrong; religion never thinks it's wrong.

Believing in a god or deity, your mind walks off the map and you are either a liar or a sociopath.

You claim that you either are not controllable without your bible, which borders on being a sociopath or you glean from within the understanding that we don't infringe on others civil liberties by stealing, killing, etc.

You choose.

trevorfairweather  12/16/2008 06:19 PM Report

I try to avoid these kinds of things but there is no two ways about it, "yuck" is the only response to the human cloning question. Clearly the line between genius and mad scientist in very fine. I can't believe Charlie engaged this conversation without using the words "Brave New World"

Kim  10/05/2008 07:45 AM Report

I feel that a lot of spiritual satisfaction can be taken from studying reality and learning more about the world around us. Just listening to the section where Dawkins is explaining how exciting it is to him to find out that whales and hippos are cousins is further proof of this. Just because one isn't religious doesn't mean that feelings of emotion-enriching awe and wonder aren't possible without religious faith.

Rowan Rowen  08/25/2008 04:50 PM Report

This man is not even wrong.

Eric  07/21/2008 11:21 AM Report

Sad that his intellect is limited in needing 'proof' to believe in what is true, when human history and especially science has achieved so little proof of anything. Being a scientist he should know better. That a man committed to the exploration of thought for so many years could come away with so little of the marvel of this bountifully spiritual world, and distracted by Creationist Extremists so that he cannot even see life beyond the five senses... Wow. At least he comforts himself in the belief that he's seeing things as they 'are'...that's the faith he has had to put into reality. Unfortunately, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, we all take that leap of faith somewhere in our logic, and no one is free of it. He chooses to take the leap right at is front door and no further beyond it. Still, an enjoyable & lively discussion of many things true!!

Jim O'Brie  06/23/2008 08:36 AM Report

Dawkins seems a very cordial guy; I expected an overbearing tosser.

Judi Clow  02/23/2008 09:46 AM Report

Read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Wonderful scientist. Kepp writing Richard. jc

Ayokunle Adeyemi  02/16/2008 04:36 PM Report

I cannot stress enough my hunger to hear Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak to the significant issues that she continues to champion: human rights, women's rights, & democracy. Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins have dedicated the entire earnings from DVD sales of 'The Four Horsemen', an epic conversation on religion, to funding Ali's security. The issues that she champions resonate strongly with the zeitgist of this 21st century; and it is, for me, imperative that Ali's courageous voice be heard, and heard here, as she represents so strongly the spirit of Charlie Rose.

Between Two Eternities  01/26/2008 03:55 AM Report

It has to be said that Richard Dawkins has a 'style of thought' and 'moral perspective' that attracts real repect like a magnet. He is hard to place. Throughout the course of human existence, I always wonder how people would have received those that are now judged to be the clearest and best minds. No, Professor Richard Dawkins is hard to place.

D Elliott  12/06/2007 09:42 AM Report

You just have to adore Prof Richard Dawkins; he's the very image of an active Mount Vesuvius fused with an innocuous fluffy little kitten, called - say - Darwin.

R Hubbs  08/12/2007 10:27 PM Report

Read the book discussed and found it wonderful. Dr. Dawkins is a great scientist and author.

Patrick  08/08/2007 07:56 AM Report

weird question structure in this interview charlie

Robert Philbin  06/03/2007 06:36 PM Report

Excellent interview and discussion, Dawkins relaxed and thoughtfull, good stuff.

Thank you.

Robert Philbin