1. Comment #36327 by NAIANF87 on April 30, 2007 at 11:53 pm

great lecture. convincing and solid.

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2. Comment #36332 by Machinus on May 1, 2007 at 12:20 am

As offensive as many of my colleagues find him, I am always pleased with the eloquence and clarity of Dr. Dawkins' lectures. Thank you for this one!

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3. Comment #36376 by Adrian on May 1, 2007 at 2:37 am

Eloquent as always. Entirely inoffensive.

It's difficult to see how anyone could disagree with his arguments.

The world needs to change and it must start in the classroom.

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4. Comment #36391 by Algebratheist on May 1, 2007 at 3:08 am

great lecture. funny, he slipped up and said an "astronaut" killed the dinosaurs.

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5. Comment #36406 by David Williams on May 1, 2007 at 3:56 am

As excellent as ever, clear, concise, amusing, inspiring. I was especially pleased to hear so many of my heroes quoted.

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6. Comment #36424 by Logicel on May 1, 2007 at 5:02 am

Though I have heard or read Dawkins discussing many of the points made in this vid, his delivery was superb--focused, energetic, and entertaining. I really enjoyed this one.

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7. Comment #36435 by Cdat on May 1, 2007 at 5:33 am

Algebratheist, you only think he slipped up..I think he is adding weight to my theory that ancient astronauts killed the dinosaurs to make room for the mutant pod people know as humans...

or not.

Excellent lecture. I am emailing it to some of my more, ah, excitable Christian associates.

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8. Comment #36453 by Yorker on May 1, 2007 at 7:21 am

Long time visitors here will have heard most of this before, but Dawkins executes the arguments well as always.

2. Comment #36332 by Machinus

As offensive as many of my colleagues find him...

I don't understand this, I've heard Dawkins many times and have never thought him offensive. People who find Dawkins' attacks on falsehoods personally offensive, are merely indicating insecurity about their beliefs.

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9. Comment #36454 by scottishgeologist on May 1, 2007 at 7:28 am

Cdat: Love your comment: "my theory that ancient astronauts killed the dinosaurs"

There is something so beautifully von Daniken-esque about that - love it!

Oh yes, worth remembering it was 30 years ago that Von Daniken got owned by the BBC's Horizon....

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10. Comment #36463 by Eureka Step on May 1, 2007 at 7:55 am

This is why I love the man.

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11. Comment #36471 by kkant on May 1, 2007 at 9:06 am

I especially liked the bit about the biologist who had such humility (and indeed joy) in accepting a disproof of his theory of the golgi apparatus. That was a very moving anecdote.

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12. Comment #36485 by sane1 on May 1, 2007 at 10:08 am

Excellent.

Here is another excellent video - from back in 2002 - when RD was apparently getting revved up to write TGD. Interesting to hear the state of his thinking at that time.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/113

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13. Comment #36619 by foxfire on May 1, 2007 at 6:53 pm

I second sane1's "Excellent".

Machinus wrote:

As offensive as many of my colleagues find him

Machinus, a question: do those colleagues find the man Richard Dawkins offensive, or do they find the ideas Richard Dawkins expounds to be offensive? If it is the former, I offer you my condolence and wish you the best of luck in finding new colleagues.

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14. Comment #36956 by Bonzai on May 2, 2007 at 11:14 pm

It is an excellent lecture but he seems to recycle/repakage his material quite a bit, they all sound kind of similar. A longer version of this lecture has been given in Mcgill University in 2006 on the strangeness of science. Except for the beginning part about faith this lecture is a word for word rendition of a portion of the Mcgill lecture.

I would like to see him speaking more spontaneously instead of reading from notes. It would add some variations even if he is making the same points, at least it wouldn't be a word for word replay.

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