PZ Myers Discussion (6/10) - Richard Dawkins
Buy it now on DVD at: http://richarddawkins.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=60 DURING HIS U.S. TOUR in 2008, Biologist ...
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[Myers] It's like they can waffle between these two views so easily, and it makes it really hard to pin them down and wrestle with the ideas is when you're not going to commit yourself. You're not going support a particular position. There's nothing you can do. [Dawkins] Scientists don't do that do we really? I mean, we have many vices but I don't think that's one of them. [Myers] We get ornery about our positions. (laughter) [Dawkins] Yeah. [Myers] Yeah, and if you try and argue with us about, you know, what we think about things we will spend, you know, hours babbling trying to get the verbiage just right. Trying to get all the ideas out. But we're not trying to obscure things. What we're trying to do is get a more refined understanding of the concept...
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[Myers] It's like they can waffle between these two views so easily, and it makes it really hard to pin them down and wrestle with the ideas is when you're not going to commit yourself. You're not going support a particular position. There's nothing you can do. [Dawkins] Scientists don't do that do we really? I mean, we have many vices but I don't think that's one of them. [Myers] We get ornery about our positions. (laughter) [Dawkins] Yeah. [Myers] Yeah, and if you try and argue with us about, you know, what we think about things we will spend, you know, hours babbling trying to get the verbiage just right. Trying to get all the ideas out. But we're not trying to obscure things. What we're trying to do is get a more refined understanding of the concept...
