#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God
Within Reason
Alex J O'Connor
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Richard Dawkins is the world-famous evolutionary biologist, New York Times bestselling science writer, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and previously Oxford University's Professor for Public Understanding of Science. Dawkins rose to prominence after his 1976 publication The Selfish Gene, which introduced the term 'meme' and began a series of highly popular books including the Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, and, most recently, Outgrowing God.
Professor Dawkins speaks to Alex about the meaning of atheism, the labelling of children as 'atheists', the evolutionary and social bases of morality, and the usefulness of theology as a discipline.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Cosmic Skeptic podcast is brought to you by you. |
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| 0:08.0 | forward slash Cosmic Skeptic. Oh, So welcome back everybody to the Cosmic Skeptic podcast. Today I'm joined in his |
| 0:39.7 | own very lovely home by Professor Richard Dawkins of course the |
| 0:43.4 | Evolutionary Biologists and fellow of New College Oxford University |
| 0:47.2 | turned face of new atheism and author of a number of highly popular |
| 0:51.6 | works including the selfish gene the, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, |
| 0:54.4 | and most recently his new book, Outgrowing God, which is available to purchase right now. |
| 0:59.2 | If you're watching on YouTube, a link will be available in the description. |
| 1:02.1 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:03.0 | Professor Dawson. |
| 1:04.0 | So, I suppose the best place to begin with this is |
| 1:08.0 | given not only your own previous work, |
| 1:11.0 | but also the work of other new atheist writers. Why do you think we need |
| 1:14.4 | another book about atheism? Well it's about 10 years or more since I wrote The |
| 1:18.8 | God Delusion and I've always wanted to write a book for young people. |
| 1:24.0 | Got Delusion is written in a style for sort of, |
| 1:28.0 | shall we say, university graduates, although not necessarily |
| 1:32.0 | in a particular subject. |
| 1:34.0 | And rather to my surprise, various people have said that they would like a kind of easier version. |
| 1:41.0 | That's not quite what Outreling God is because it doesn't actually, you know, the chapters don't cover the same ground, but it is written in a style for 14 year olds up to 99 year olds I suppose. So it's sort of started off as being |
| 1:57.6 | aimed at younger people. Right I see because you know I I myself read the God delusion when I was a teenager and |
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