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Making Sense with Sam Harris

#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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4.629.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The following conversation between Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty was recorded at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver on November 2, 2017.

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Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're

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1:05.8

Thank you.

1:15.7

We've clearly waited too long to become to Vancouver. Thank you. Amazing.

1:21.7

So a quick rundown on this evening's event. There's a couple of microphones set up.

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We will be getting to questions from you guys a little later on. We're going to chat for,

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you know, however long we feel like it, but we want to make sure there's time for questions

1:34.4

after that. So good to see you both again. Yes, I quite. I'm really enjoying kind of this

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series of events, and I thought today we'd start off in a different direction that's all about me.

1:48.9

It's actually a question that I think both of you are going to have really good input on.

1:53.6

I did a debate a couple weeks ago against a preacher who seemed to have not only no understanding

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of science, but no appreciation for it. Didn't care. Didn't care if he was fairly representing it.

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As a matter of fact, I think there's a chance you might have stood up in a cost of him at some point,

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because he literally stood in front of me and said, oh, that evolution stuff. It's not like anybody's

2:20.0

ever banged sticks and rocks together and got a puppy. He said this twice during the debate. The first time,

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we're in a debate structure, so I'm trying not to interrupt. I need to follow the rules of debate.

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And the second time, I just halted and jumped right in, and I was like, you're right, that's never

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