89: Richard Dawkins (+ Paul Bloom and Shaun Attwood)

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Andrew Gold

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Richard Dawkins is one of the biggest names in science. His The God Delusion, which contends that a supernatural deity does not exist, flipped the world upside down in 2006 when it came out, bringing both science and atheism into the mainstream. I interview him today alongside former ecstasy mob boss Shaun Attwood, before a free bonus section with Professor Paul Bloom of Yale and Toronto. Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the bonus bits. Richard Dawkins links: Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QBGS4VQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Books Do Furnish A Life: An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KXNF4ZF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Richard's Website: https://richarddawkins.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins Prof Paul Bloom links: The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Spot-Pleasures-Suffering-Meaning/dp/0062910566 Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulbloomatyale Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bloom_(psychologist) Official Website: https://paulbloom.net Shaun Attwood Links: YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/derickatt Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaunattwood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shaunattwood Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's funny to think of insects having sperm. I never thought of it.
0:04.4	Well, how else didn't they reproduce?
0:06.7	I just never never crossed my mind.
0:12.3	I have a very special guest for you today in the form of a living legend and I mean that because
0:19.4	there are very few individuals in the world today whose names carry as much weight as Dr Richard Dawkins.
0:26.8	Not quite Darwin, not quite Hawking, but Dawkins.
0:31.0	One of the four horsemen that sparked an atheist revolution alongside Sam Harris, Daniel
0:36.4	Denet and the late Christopher Hitchins. He's long been a hero to secular
0:41.6	thinkers such as myself and the great majority of you
0:45.0	listeners and for a podcast that launched 18 months ago with an emotional
0:50.4	interview with a defected Westborough Baptist.
0:53.0	Richard is a very natural selection as a guest.
0:57.0	See what I did there.
0:59.0	It's been a great month for guests with John Ronson, David Badeel, Carl Zimmer and many other big names set to
1:04.8	grace my metaphorical stage. So do subscribe to On the Edge with Andrew Gold for those.
1:11.5	Today Richard Dawkins talks about his new book
1:15.2	Flights of Fancy which looks at the evolution of flight in animals and how different
1:21.0	chains of animals took flight at different times in their evolution,
1:25.4	which is quite an extraordinary thought, how that sort of happens.
1:30.5	For the unaware, Richard Dawkins is one of the biggest names in science,
1:35.0	not in religion, as I wrongly suggest in the interview.
1:38.0	His The God Delusion, which contends that a supernatural deity does not exist, flipped the world upside down in 2006
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