Richard Dawkins

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science until 2008. Richard joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his draw to science, his theory on evolution and the lack of language diversity in English cultures. Dax admits he has been a fan of Richard since college and Richard declares what shows he's watching on Netflix. The two talk about atheism, the evolutionary cause of death and the distortion of objectivity due to human filters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert I'm
0:05.1	Dax Shepard I'm joined by expert Monica
0:07.3	Padman
0:09.3	we have a very exciting guest somebody I've kind of had an intellectual
0:15.3	boner for since college. Yeah one of your heroes. Yeah I'm the Mount Rushmore
0:20.3	of science and atheism but give it a shot if you're religious I think we're fair in this but
0:26.0	Richard Dawkins famously wrote the selfish gene that's how I was introduced to him a book he wrote
0:31.4	in 1976 which was a real paradigm shift
0:34.2	we'll get into that he's also an English eithologist evolutionary biologists
0:38.9	an author he's an emeritus fellow of New College Oxford and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
0:48.7	He's written the Greatest Show on Earth, The God Delusion, the Ancestors' Tale, the Blind Watchmaker, the Extended
0:54.1	Phenotype, and of course, the Self's Genius I said, he has a new book called
0:57.8	Outgrowing God, a Beginners Guide. We also talk about his foundation a bunch and it's just a very fun thrilling chat with a hero of mine
1:06.8	So please enjoy Richard Dawkins
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1:24.0	He's an I'm Chexman.
1:27.0	He's an I'm Chexman.
1:30.0	He's an alternate friend.
1:42.0	First and foremost I just want to say, Richard, I don't think I've been this nervous to interview somebody. I've never owned a copy of someone's book for 20 years and then brought it
1:46.6	to the interview to be signed. This is a first for me so I just want to say you know
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