Sunday, November 25, 2007

Richard Dawkins, Atheism and God

Professor Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, a leading atheist and a very famous writer. He is known for his hardcore and aggressive atheism.

The first video here is a lecture by him at a University in Virginia in which he reads some very interesting excerpts from his book 'The God Delusion'. He reads from several chapters and presents his points of view about God.

In this video, starting at about 25th minute, he presents a very interesting experiment conducted on school children which shows influence of Religion on their ability to judge morality of an issue.




Next three videos are of BBC's famous show Hard Talk when Prof. Dawkins was interviewed about the same book.
In Part 1, during last minutes, professor talks about how to disassociate cruel and unjust deeds of people like Stalin who was an atheist himself from the atheism as an idea.

In Part 2, in the beginning, professor puts forward a very interesting point about labeling a child by the religion his/her parents have followed.





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