UC Berkeley Event (2/6) - Richard Dawkins
http://RichardDawkins.net - see more videos like this. On Saturday, March 8th, 2008, Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on The God Delusion during his US Tour. The event took place on the...
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There are people who, quite wrongly and illogically, say you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god, therefore there is an exactly fifty-percent probability of god existing. It's like tossing a penny. That, of course is, completely illogical. Just because you cannot disprove something, and the teapot example shows that, it doesn't means the odds of it being there are fifty- percent and you can quickly see that with the example of the teapot. I regard the hypothesis of the existence of god as a scientific hypothesis. And in this, I disagree with many of my scientific colleagues, who feel that science and religion have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and you could be a perfectly good scientist while your religious belief i...
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There are people who, quite wrongly and illogically, say you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god, therefore there is an exactly fifty-percent probability of god existing. It's like tossing a penny. That, of course is, completely illogical. Just because you cannot disprove something, and the teapot example shows that, it doesn't means the odds of it being there are fifty- percent and you can quickly see that with the example of the teapot. I regard the hypothesis of the existence of god as a scientific hypothesis. And in this, I disagree with many of my scientific colleagues, who feel that science and religion have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and you could be a perfectly good scientist while your religious belief i...
