Derren Brown Interview (5/6) - Richard Dawkins
This is the full uncut interview filmed for the Channel 4 TV program "The Enemies of Reason." This video is provided free online by http://RichardDawkins.net .
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Dawkins: The great Carl Sagan was always being approached by people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. He made a rather telling point. That if he were ever abducted by an alien he would immediately, since they obviously are brilliant mathematicians and physicists, or they couldn't possible have gotten here in their space ships, he would ask them scientific questions or he'd ask them "Please prove Fermat's last theory, or the Goldbach conjecture." The only thing the aliens ever talk about is things like "We must be good to each other," and things like that which is totally unoriginal. And it occurred to me that if I were to listen to a medium calling the spirits of the dead, wouldn't you, if you were talking to a dead person via a medium,...
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Dawkins: The great Carl Sagan was always being approached by people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. He made a rather telling point. That if he were ever abducted by an alien he would immediately, since they obviously are brilliant mathematicians and physicists, or they couldn't possible have gotten here in their space ships, he would ask them scientific questions or he'd ask them "Please prove Fermat's last theory, or the Goldbach conjecture." The only thing the aliens ever talk about is things like "We must be good to each other," and things like that which is totally unoriginal. And it occurred to me that if I were to listen to a medium calling the spirits of the dead, wouldn't you, if you were talking to a dead person via a medium,...
