Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss: Something from Nothing
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Critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics at this event entitled 'Something for Nothing'. This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 10 April 2012. Richard Dawkins FRS is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. Born in British colonial Africa, he was educated in England, where he now lives. He did his doctorate at Oxford under the Nobel Prize winning zoologist Niko Tinbergen, then was briefly an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1967 to 1969, after which he returned to Oxford, first as a Lecturer in Zoology, then Reader, before being elected to his present professorship. He is the author of nine books: The Selfish Gene (1976, 2nd Ed 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil's Chaplain (2003), The Ancestor's Tale (2004) and The God Delusion (2006). The God Delusion has sold more than two million copies in English, and is being published in 30 other languages. Dawkins is now editing an anthology of scientific writing for Oxford University Press, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. In 2006, to promote the values of education, science, and critical thinking skills, he established The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) which is now a registered charity in both the UK and USA. Richard Dawkins has Honorary Doctorates of Literature as well as Science, and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He has been awarded the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London, the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the Nakayama Prize, the Cosmos International Prize, the Kistler Prize, the Shakespeare Prize and the Lewis Thomas Prize. Lawrence M. Krauss is a renowned cosmologist and science populariser, and is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare public intellectual, he is also the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and nine books, including the international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek, and his most recent bestseller entitled A Universe from Nothing. He received his PhD from MIT in 1982 and then joined the Society of Fellows at Harvard, and was a professor at Yale University and Chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University before taking his present position. Internationally known for his work in theoretical physics, he is the winner of numerous international awards, and is the only physicist to have received major awards from all three US physics societies, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. Krauss is also a commentator and essayist for newspapers such as the New York Times, and the Wall St. Journal, and has written regular columns for New Scientist and Scientific American and appears regularly on radio and television. He is one of the few scientists to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, and is also active in issues of science and society. He serves as co-chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and on the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists.
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Cool shoes Lawrence!
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This talk never gets old.
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I have a question. I haven't read the entire bible and I don't profess knowledge of everything in it, but from what I know of Hell wouldn't it be more plausible that the Devil wouldn't torture you for eternity? I was just curious because if you pissed off God enough to be damned to eternity in Hell, why would the devil torture you? Doesn't he hate God? If he does, wouldn't he be happy with you pissing God off. Also if the Devil's goal is to get rid of God, which is what I assume is his goal (again I don't know for sure), wouldn't he work with all of the people who are now angry with God for excommunicating them from Heaven and try to create an army to take God down? I mean if I were the Devil I wouldn't be trying to torture people for eternity ESPECIALLY if God told me to. I'm not a believer in God, Satan, or the BIble so in the end this doesn't really matter to me, but I guess I'm a bit curious.
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Thank you for uploading. Such an interesting conversation that has truly broadened by mind.
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Haha these two are more philosophers than scientists in this talk!
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I like Lawrence Krauss. I find his arguments a lot more convincing than Dawkins.
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One of the greatest dicussions I have ever seen. Thank you.
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Please , elaborate [2] . How a solid theory that explains so many questions of biology with so many evidences and proofs is "dumb" by your pespective ?
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Please, elaborate.
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At worst Buddhism is the same old run of the mill superstitious nonsense. At best, it's a bronze-age philosophy based on self-extinguishing misconceptions about human nature and the universe we live in. At least it's not evangelical.
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evolution theory just dumbs you down
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I wount say Religions are an insult to logic and Intelligence !
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What about Buddhism?
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great discussion thanks for sharing it with us !
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They are purple, but yeah i agree
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Haha I've watched that Q+A episode 5 times, heard the reference to this speech and never thought to find it. Cheers ANU!
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Richard Dawkins held a debate with a creationist. (Search Q&A George Pell)
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I don't know what to think of being immortal. The concept of an eternity is terrifying, but living through it, seeing the universe over the course of millions of years, seeing evolution unfold.
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One word: Brilliant.
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