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TRIGGERnometry

The Reality of Sex & Gender, Evolutionary History & Free Will - Richard Dawkins

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and author. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centered 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 gain traction in the mid-2000s, catalysed in large part by Dawkin's 2006 book, The God Delusion. Richard’s latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie, is available to pre-order now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300278098/ Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Should really be holiday. Now back to the interview.

1:07.6

We had this big controversy with two boxes in the Olympics. What do you make of all of this? I think it's both unfair and actually dangerous. You believe that the question I'm asking you now and the answer you're

1:15.6

giving me now is predetermined. I'm afraid I do and I find that very hard to

1:19.5

stomach but but yes free will is an illusion but it's a very very powerful illusion we all feel

1:26.2

as if we've got free will that's quite a common thing with the same question

1:30.4

yes but that's because you haven't answered it. It's quite a contradiction. I will not answer it, nor will anybody else in any satisfactory way.

1:38.0

It's a philosophically difficult problem.

1:40.0

Professor Richard Dawkins, such a pleasure to have you back.

1:44.1

I can't wait to talk about your new book, your tour of America.

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