Richard Dawkins: God, Truth & Death

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and author. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, as well as coining the term meme. Dawkins is a vocal atheist and is often referred to as one of the four horsemen of the New Atheism movement which began to grain traction in the mid-2000s, catalysed in large part by Dawkin's 2006 book, The God Delusion. SPONSORED BY: GiveSendGo - Go to https://www.GiveSendGo.com/ to check out a better alternative to crowdfunding. Support the people who support freedom! SPONSORED BY: EasyDNS - domain name registrar provider and web host. Use special code: TRIGGERED for 50% off when you visit https://easydns.com/triggered/ Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Intro 01:04 Sponsor Message: GiveSendGo 03:02 Richard Dawkins’ Background 04:54 The Selfish Gene 05:50 Crucial Recent Discoveries for Human Development 07:15 How Much Does Biology Dominate Our Lives? 08:25 What Innovation & Discoveries are Happening at the Moment? 11:34 Downsides to Medical Advancements 13:15 Is Genetically Modifying Babies Playing God? 15:44 What is Life & Can it be Discarded? 20:49 The People Who Move Our Species Forward 23:59 The Current State of Science 25:44 The Tyranny of the Discontinuous Mind 27:55 Eroding the Concept of Truth 31:52 Is the Claim that you can Change your Sex Supernatural? 33:48 Do Humans Need Religion? 34:50 Did Richard’s Criticism of God go Too Far? 37:08 Could the Universe Have Been Planned? 46:09 Sponsor Message: easyDNS 47:12 The Comfort of Religion 50:42 How Richard Would Face Death 53:06 Richard’s Aim to Defeat Religion 54:47 Euthanasia 56:38 The Development of AI 1:01:40 Are We Alone in the Universe? 1:06:08 What is The One Thing We’re Not Talking About? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	Do you all think that there is a fundamental part of us as human beings that need to religion?
0:36.6	You could say that there's a deep psychological need for religion.
0:43.6	The comfort that you get from believing a falsehood is like a drug.
0:48.6	And it's a perfectly valid argument to say that there's everything to be said for the drug.
0:54.6	I just want to make a distinction between what is true and what humanity needs.
0:58.6	And it may very well be that we do need false ideas in order to flourish and prosper.
1:05.6	But I'm also interested in what's true.
1:07.6	A lot of people are zipping their mouths because of a political pressure.
1:12.6	And if people for political reasons are trying to deny that there really is a binary separation between the two sexes,
1:20.6	then that is anti-scientific, anti-rational and is a subversion of language, actually.
1:27.6	Hey Francis, do you think financial platforms should be apolitical and not cancel people just because they don't agree with their politics?
1:43.6	I'll never forgive what those absolute b****** tied bank did to us.
1:48.6	Now Francis, we don't know if our bank account was cancelled because of our politics.
1:52.6	Give me five minutes in a room with them and I'll find out.
1:55.6	What are you going to do? Test your new jokes on them.
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