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Richard Dawkins (Atheism Vs. Religion)

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Russell Brand

Politics, Society & Culture, News:politics, News, Comedy

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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One of the most influential atheists in the world and the best-selling author of ‘The Selfish Gene’ and ‘The God Delusion’, Richard Dawkins joins Russell to debate the role of religion, science and power. They talk consciousness, reality, existence of extraterrestrial life and love. Find out more about Richard Dawkins: https://richarddawkins.com/  For a bit more from us join our Stay Free Community here: https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Come to my festival COMMUNITY - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/

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0:00.0

Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. It's Friday and of course every Friday, as you by surely are now aware, I have an in-depth conversation with intellectuals, visionaries, radical thinkers and spiritual leaders joining me today is one of the most influential philosophers, evolutionary biologists, social influences, inventor of the term meme.

0:19.0

He's the best-selling author of the selfish gene and the god delusion, and I'm very excited to be communicating with Professor Richard Dawkins.

0:26.6

Dickie Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, the foremost atheist in the land,

0:31.6

talking to me, one of the world's most religiousist folks.

0:35.6

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can

0:38.3

f*** off. I mean how's it going to go down? Do you feel that society's in trouble?

0:42.4

Maybe I do. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Right. So what do you think the answer is? Well, not religion.

0:49.1

Well, I do. I think religion is relatively too small to deal with big problems.

0:55.0

There's this assumption that science and religion are at odds with one another.

0:59.0

I agree that there's a lot we don't know, we may never know.

1:02.0

And I want to know. I want to work on knowing.

1:05.0

How come you're doing this?

1:07.0

I don't know. That's a very interesting.

1:09.0

These are some of the things I've always wanted to ask you about.

1:13.6

Okay, we can certainly disagree on that. I mean, of course we can.

1:21.6

We can. I'm not arguing with you.

1:23.6

Stay free with Russell Brand. See it first on Rumble.

1:28.3

Thanks for joining us.

1:29.3

Thank you.

1:30.3

I've been looking forward to speaking to you for a very long while because, well, quite a lot of things, as a matter of fact.

1:38.3

I wonder mostly where you feel the conversation about daism and theism currently resides.

1:50.0

If there is anything that you would amend around your evolving discourse from the point where it became, in a sense, one of the key components of the cultural conversation around faith and atheism

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