An Evening with Richard Dawkins - Featuring Sam Harris - Night 2
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- Join Richard Dawkins as he shares the stage with special guest Sam Harris for a sold-out engagement at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles. In this rare conversation between two brilliant and provocative thinkers, Dawkins and Harris explore a wide array of critical topics and tackle challenging questions. They discuss the implications of new scientific advancements, the threat of religious extremism, approaches to finding meaning and purpose without faith, and of course - speaking just before the U.S. presidential election - a little bit of politics.
This talk took place on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016.
God i love those two men. May Richard live to a 150. What an incredible man. Sam too, excellent human being.
Hé will die as every human. With him his words and his hostelety against religion. A shame a scientist is so against God and people believing in Him. I don't want to stand in his shoes when hé stands before God
@@ricmic2376 I guess I have to take you at your word?? 🤣🤣🤣
By the way, my English is probably still better than your Dutch!
@@abrahammulder we live in the end of time..... They dont have much time left..... The sad thing is they are deceiving a lot of people..... But it is written the ook of revelation
@@abrahammulder the world is full of people who dare to defy the astronomical claims made by theists and their contradictory texts. When Dr. Dawkins dies, skeptics and Atheists will continue to debate the claims made my theists. Theists are religious skeptics to some extent, because they believe that their religion is the correct one, and that every other one is a fallacy.
@@abrahammulder if you think debating and talking about the ludicrous claims religions make is "hostility," I can't help but wonder what you think of actual violence.
Fashion tips from Dawkins....priceless.
more like worthless
If you say so, buddy
@@xsuploader ???
I've been saving my loss 🧦 for years now. Great Group of Gentlemen.
"It's ridiculous to by sock is pares, if you lose one you have to throw the other way", Love this.
Extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to see Richard Dawkins live in Melbourne in 2018, I have so much admiration for Professor Dawkins, his books are incredibly insightful and he has a way with words like very few.
"I daresay there's too much respect in the world."
"I don't care about whether its harmful, I care about whether its true."
I love this guy.
So good to see Richard healthy
is he not today?
@@boy638 I think Noy means good to see Richard is healthy after his Stroke.
@@lotusgroup123- Yep. Happily he still has his voice. Wouldn't it be bizarre if he'd lost it after the stroke and had to use a US-spec voice synthesiser like Stephen Hawking! Another Brit speaking with an American accent? Very odd.
Actually, I'm sure modern voice 'boxes' are a lot more flexible and he could choose how he sounded. Whatever accent he used, Dawkins would still be talking sense.
Oddly enough, just like Richard, I have suffered a run of small ganglion strokes. I’m a typing on an iPad, my left arm like his, is completely unreliable. It took 5 of them each consuming 4-6 weeks to recover. Same as our host I woke up with a mostly paralyzed left arm that eventually comes back on line.I
The problem is that ganglion n stroke is the only motor-only stroke that I can remember. It took the ‘Ah-ha’ of the opening segment to allow myself to unbundle all the data and process it wholly. I will test with a brain scan to confirm. Thank you to both of coming out to a semi-empty auditorium, to keep up the good fight.
@@EleanorPeterson
I'll
It will take more than a stroke to do that to me!! Never get tired listening to Dr. Dawkins.
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Dawkins is such a great speaker and an even better writer. His books have been my primary source of understanding evolutionary theory. Even the ‘Extended Phenotype’ which was written for a scholarly audience is actually quite intelligible for an attentive lay reader like me.
When Richard spoke about the things that actually move you at a persons funeral I got genuinely choked up. He said it so well and made so much sense.
M.
@@waldemarsinger8677 huh?
People who feel out of touch. about their own emotions often feel the need to target others who don't.
What is a Book nor Books? Why write nor to bring forth coherence to remind written within THEE ALL? Put everything on the NEW TABLE MADE FROM a hand without a blood stains upon HIS HANDS. REMEMBER STUDENTS GIVEN…PULLING DOWN STRONG HOLDS. WHO DO NOT ASK FOR ANYTHING? I am. Why should the TRUE OWNER ASKED FOR ANYTHING? Is like…who do not force? But given FREE SPACE TO GROW! Students will say by a “ COMMAND”. Ye all will question thy Lives? Sincere conversations comes with being mindful unto one another! Who else will glorify given our NEIGHBORS to glorify! Ye all once an INNOCENTS LITTLE ONCE! Heirs who keep watch? Is who as commanded They ARE?
@@edieswann did you have a stroke while writing this?
I love these people, makes me proud to live at their era and to be able to understand..
Saw him in Melbourne last Friday and Richard is in perfect condition! He has fully recovered…
Thank you so much for saying this. I have been wondering how he's progressed since his stroke.
@@Yosef9438 same here I’m glad he is doing well
I love Dawkins dry matter-of-fact method presenting the laudible points he makes.
This is how a conversation of intelligent people looks, without shouting political or religious apes
2 of my greatest heroes..
Why ?
@@Space-nb7dr Why not?
@@thierry8978 but why ?
@@Space-nb7dr Because they are smart, rational and have a sense of humour. They are also one of my favourite thinkers along with others such as Lawrence Krauss or Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
@@pavel9652 All the Atheist, you must be hate religion
So much love for these two. ❤
"It's ridiculous to have to buy socks in pairs."
These are port and starboard socks.
@@southisland5402- Aha! Have you been watching Mentour Pilot and his sofa cushions, too? :-)
@@southisland5402 fine as long as he walks backwards
He should do what I do and buy multiple pairs of the same socks. Then you can lose many and still have a wearable pair
@@ecoworrier But then he would have no story to tell ;)
Wish the best of health for Mr. Dawkins, Hope to get more knowledge off his brain alot more.
I love Richard Dawkins, what a legend😊💛
You're a legend, my man.
Richard Dawkins does his homework before he debates anybody in relation to evolution; after all he does not want to end up with egg on his face. He has refused debates in America among Creationists who seek the whole truth and nothing but the truth. There is no bias or prejudice with Creationists, they stick to science: things that can be observed, tested and studied, they steer clear of pseudo-science. There are more questions that answers!! Kind Regards Norman
I had a lot of respect for him, despite not agreeing with all his views (and I am a PhD scientist). However recently I watched a video where he was mocking the ten commandments before an audience. He cannot expect to be respected if he does not reciprocate that respect to others who might uphold the ten commandments. Candidly I was disgusted by him, not to mention somewhat taken aback.
@@malcolmabram2957
I can understand that.
Is this what you are referencing?
czcams.com/video/qoNqSrA7Mos/video.html
@@malcolmabram2957 I like the name Abram, let me reach out to you in friendship! Malcolm, if you are in doubt about the existence of God, have a look at The Hebridean Revival 1949 Duncan Campbell on you-tube. See what happened when people truly started to prayer and for hours on end, twice a week over a long period of time. It eventually got the attention of the Lord. Duncan Campbell talks about when God stepped down. Sincere Kind Regards Norman
the odd socks thing is great. my Ex-wife hates mismatched socks so yeah this is perfect everyone do it!
37:59 I've always thought this way about culture. So many things are universally accepted simply cause so many people do it yet are batshit crazy or horrible.
Andrew Tate is currently a known sex trafficker & proud rapist w a hustler university teaching millions how to b like him /billions of views loyal followers who r now protesting his arrest - the same people who also believe in Qanon
It’s truly remarkable
You guys are awesome, and with the deepest respect for your immense knowledge, I miss Christopher. Please don’t be offended but he had a way of persuading us, the common people, to change out mind. Your oratory is impressive but it tends to be academic. We need another Christopher!! A man of the people who ordinary people understand. Please find another like him!!... Please,,,,!
I have been an Atheist for half of my life. I have listened to Christopher Hitchens material on CZcams. Yes, he was a brilliant man. He has been dead for over 10 years now. There was only 1 Christopher Hitchens. To expect a carbon copy to be exactly like him is to project a dead man on to another living person. When my fellow atheists wish for Christopher Hitchens, it sounds like whining to me. All we can do is admire positive qualities that we see in other people. We can do our best to embody the positive traits that we can that we saw in Christopher Hitchens.
We ALL miss Christopher, including both these guys .....as they've both stated at separate moments repeatedly
Sam is just, if only differently accentuated, as lovely as Hitch.
Have you ever seen Sam Harris and Ben Stiller in the same photo or place?
I think they take turns being Stwve Guttenberg
Yes they look alike
Wonderful conversation.
Just ordered a copy of "The extended phenotype".
It arrived.
Gnar. Now post CZcams videos of you reading the book page by page. Thanks 🙂
Started reading it.
Cool story bro
@@augustusja finished it?
Blessed! Two videos in one day
Richard will be loved to death by infinite intelligence.
Excellent Discussion... !
On my bucketlist is being present watching Richard Dawkins at such an event❤
Gotta be fast he is gtting old
👏🏻 True People. Love both.
Dawkins is legend
this crowd literally just claps for everything, don't they
"i admire doctors" *applause*
Americans are brought up to clap. Its disconcerting.
@@curtyb88 thereby, their applauses lose all meaning
Well for context he had an encounter with a stroke not long before these shows.
I solved the socks problem in a different way. I have 10 pairs of the same kind 😂 but my son has like 30 of all different sorts and he’s been wearing odd socks for a long time
Each 'odd' pair has an identical pair at home and they're matching the odd pair.
@@nash984954 unless some socks get lost or thrown out. Which happens often.
Love wearing odd socks
I really wish I could comfortably listen to this, but whoever recorded it put Richard's mic volume at about 40%, Sam's at 100%, and the audience at about a thousand percent. If I turn it up loud enough to hear Richard, the crowd reactions and applause is so loud it hurts.
I love the socks. I do odd socks a lot, pleased to know I'm not alone.
You have got a scientist behind you :-)
Sam is actually funny
Very underrated sense of humor often to wickedly drive home a point
On my Gravestone will be written: "God is Dead!" If you can life for truth and humor, why don´t die for it?
Awesome!
His short explanation of extended phenotype is marvelous. It makes sad when people struggle with their concepts, the two in conversation are capable of understanding knowledge and mind at a higher level clearly and know about human biological-social behavior patterns yet are in debate of some virtual automation of humans choice of lie. Due to the slow change of human societies it did pay well to the lies to be used as the most powerful tool to keep people subject to control therefore doesn't indicate it is mechanical but is an evidence of human choice to safeguard its interests grown in well-built communities revolving around these lies.
Lucky me to listen these both greats
Honestly, if I had 2 nights with these guys it would just be subtle, nuanced conversations about how Miles Davis is more important than Michael Jackson. Because it’s the only thing I can really defend, or would possibly care to with these two. But it’s so good to learn from and listen to.
Kind of glad to hear that my slightly high I.Q. DOES mean something... lol, I hear so many people disdainfully characterize it as meaning much nothing.
Brain matter matters in determining matter and what matters.
Love the socks, Richard
Love you both
I remember teachers telling us off frequently for saying “um” when I was young. Good to see it used so frequently here 🤓
Ah, well, you know, like, whatever...
This not a political statement but Obama is the king of ums and ers
@Get Zappéd 1974 It gets eorse once you notice how frequently its said . I had a school mate who had The Likes really bad .... you know " I like went to the like store and like there like all out of bread like ." Annoying as hell
@@pooddescrewch8718 Repeating words over and over again is a sign of very low intelligence.
@@DeadlyDanDaMan Not when its " No " .
Thanks!
The wonder of it all...
9:36 wow! I had the same epidemic in my school in Poland.
I'd like to say that I'd like to see a female president in USA. Because she would have also been able to stop what is coming to Canada, hopefully.
Woot, woot!!!
I wish I would attend one of their lectures face to face unfortunately I doubt.but am lucky am following them on these channels and can read their written books.🤦🙄
Well, the perspective of Eternity is quite relevant to how we think and try to life our lives here on earth! (53:50)
Except our tiny mammal brains can't even begin to understand the "perspective of eternity". And if you think you do, then you are only fooling yourself with your ego. Things like "eternity" and "infinity" are not concepts that our puny human brains can conceptualize. Trust me, you don't even slightly understand just how long a billion years is, and you NEVER will, let alone the 13.8 billion years that the Universe has existed. And that 13.8 billion years doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what "eternity" is. You should look up the Dunning-Kruger effect, because I think you are one of the MANY idiot people who falls under that category.
I had a garage band called The Odd Socks ....I was lead Triangle and Rhythm Cow Bell .
At 4:50 reminds when my mother's spidery brain cancer had it's first noticeable effects. She could see the characters in the newspaper perfectly clearly but could no longer extract meaning from the squiggles.
That's terrifying. I'm so sorry that has happened to her.
@@jas-jr3rv Don't be upset now.
She met her end many years ago.
But yes, it's not the kind of exit I would choose if choosing was an option.
(I would prefer to go out more like Edward G. Robinson in the film, "Soylent Green"
or like in my fantasy -
lying on a bed of dynamite on a snowy Rocky mountain top and when the sun dip below western horizon in a blaze of glory, I would press the button and all my extended family, celebrating on chalet balcony in the foggy valley bottom, would raise a glass of Beaujolais to the booming echo of my passing. But of course such a thing contravenes my Categorical Imperative way of thinking so there's no chance my fantasy will happen).
Cheers, eh!
Good well Richard, all of your youtube audience is praying for you!
Bravo
Intellectual treasure trove in all its luminosity is eloquently manifested in this intriguingly enlightening discussion, which invariably keeps the audience engaged, focused and consummately awe struck with the profound depth of knowledge, nuanced perspectives, sophisticated thoughts and novel ideas that seamlessly emanate from two of the leading celebres; widely renowned, revered and venerated in the realm of atheistic school of thought.
Did you eat Jordan Peterson for dinner?
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I met a consultant psychiatrist once and was immediately put on a powerful brain altering anti depressant that was back in 1998. Because of a severe psychotic reaction to the prescribed drug I eventually lost my job and came very close to losing my life. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but that won't help you much when your battling to survive the powerful side effects of often lethal brain altering drugs that are almost impossible to get off of. Thankfully I got out the other side it only took almost 25 years.
Some cultures demand more from their offspring then others
Why did everyone abandon these great talks, Including Isaac Asimov Annual debates or topics. I know there was allegations with a few big names bit nothing that should of halted all these years.
Thank you Mr Dawkins for making 🍌Ray Comfort 🍌so successful. Who new an atheist like Dawkins would be such a great ally for the Christian movement 😃.
The only people who’ve become fans of comfort are idiots. Comfort is an idiot and so are his followers
I only ever buy black socks .. .. ..
How many tones of black?
@@Awibrahor Fifty shades of black.
Same, I just wish socks in general came with distinct markers (maybe under the soles, e.g. yellow triangle, red box, green circle) to recognize pairs. Wouldn't matter if all my socks were the same model, but I doubt that the case for you either.
@@Awibrahor They go greyish eventually .. .. ..
@@HiAdrian I just sew a different coloured thread into each batch. Simples.
ODD SOCKS for the win!
If one constantly buys black socks and like 5 or 10 par a time, the problem does not occur dear Dr. Dawkins
Human sexuality is an external phenotype. That's right: human sexuality is determined by genetics. It isn't a conscious choice whatsoever. Remember that the next time you want to punish someone for their sexual beliefs, no matter how heinous you think they are.
I guess that extends to people who have a different morality to me as well.
Love the socks!
Would love to see a debate between Richard Dawkins and Jordan Peterson. Why didn't this happen already?
Because jordan peterson just likes his own opinions and his own voice. Richard doesn't care about winning debates and only cares about the truth.
A talk between these two did happen. The video is on Dr. Peterson's channel. Dr. Peterson did not put his best foot forward in it, though.
@@Michael-dj6pd Jordan Peterson goes on and on and he’d give Richard another stroke
Kudos -- 444 Gematria -- 🗽
Wearing the other red and green socks from the first part/day... but on the reverse feet :D
Dawkins' voice reminds me of Jay Robinson when he played Caligula. :)
Biggus
@@pooddescrewch8718 Dickus
I have been rocking odd socks for as long as I can remember. Wearing odd ones as we speak!
Thank you!
Is Art and Music an extended phenotype ?
We see it across many isolated populations so I think it could be categorized as such.
Odd socks is the best example of extended phenotype I've ever seen. You're welcome.
Water is vigor. Oxygen is stark. Carbon is bleak.
Do you remember how was greeted Bryan when he gave unequivocal instructions to the crowd of admirers who held him for the Messiah?
Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris 😍
Green sock should be on the right foot (starboard), red sock on the left foot (port)
The whole point was to liberate oneself from arbitrary made-up rules.
37:04 I've heard this argument from Dawkins and others...but I can't actually find an example anywhere. Who on the left is ok with Islamic misogyny?
Too many people in the left are silent about him the mysogyny and homophobis that is built in to Islam.
1:19:00
Okay, who did it?
Helen Fisher said that Serotonin is connected with religion. Religious people have very high serotonin levels.
I don't see the concept of an extended phenotype manifesting itself through inherited genes by outside sources necessarily. But the example given for twins is one good one, and I'd guess there could be more examples explored. It seems more to be an influential phenotype propagated mostly by other sources like the example given of charismatic religious believers. But then, that could be kind of construed as a type of inherited influence of a phenotype from an outside source and not personally biologically connected to the individual. It does raise a question that seems an interesting point to explore within genetics and what matters in regards to phenotypes as well as the extended ones.
PS: I have to admit to not being educated in this area much (only having read books on it mainly) but thought it an interested point to study further. Also, I did enjoy the book by Dawkins which I have the first edition (one of my favourite books) but it would have been nice to have seen a 40th anniversary of it this year being 2022.
Just to add a quick point. I was thinking that in regards to being converted by a religious person. Well, that could lead to the converted person building a chapel, a temple or whatever which then becomes a kind of extended phenotype of that particular conversion to that religion.
There is a Hitchen’s-sized void on the public scene at present. Is/are there a potential “replacement(s)” who could fill his shoes somewhat?
Apparently Richard Dawkins is not a sailor, because the red sock is on his starboard side
I suppose you might say that I'm in a good place in so far as it is the case that I find every point they make more than abundantly obvious.
Hi. Do you use your reason as a guide through life? Yet, how many times have you been mistaken on important matters? Further, what is more important than where you will spend eternity - or where your loved ones will be?
To place ultimate trust in your own powers of reason is like using a wheat stalk for a walking stick. Yet, you can have light. Jesus Christ can give you light and truth. He is the light of the world.
@@kenshiloh It's not 'my' reason, Ken. It is simply reason. Everyone, including you, reason every waking minute. A synonym for reason is 'thinking'. Thinking only leads to error when the content of the thoughts do not adequately reflect the actual (or when there's something wrong with the mechanism that does the thinking).
I am not afraid to cease being.
Apparently you are.
@@REDPUMPERNICKEL Hi. Thanks for writing. You wrote, "Thinking only leads to error when the content of the thoughts do not adequately reflect the actual." My question is, how do you know that your thoughts reflect what is actually true?
For example, ever stick a pencil in water? Your eyes tell you that the pencil bends. Ultimately, you have to place blind faith that your perception is mirroring reality.
Furthermore, you claim that life ends at death. The ramifications of that is, that it doesn't matter if I am a psycho or a saint. Whether I kill a million or help a million, it is all the exact same outcome: nothing. As Dawkins claims, the universe came from nothing and we go to nothing. It is the religion of the suicide killer who hates people and hates life. It is a 'win-win' for the wicked, a license to do all the evil that is in the person's heart - without fear of ultimate consequence. How convenient! What a delight atheism is for the insanely wicked!
Yet, Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
@@kenshiloh Did you just say that I have to use blind faith to understsnd the theory of refraction? What a joke, I know that due to the changing of light's wavelength when it hits a different medium that the pencil will look shallower and larger than just in air. No faith is required at all. And btw, I'll die one day and then I'll cease to exist just like all other living things, the idea of eternal anything is absolutely ludicrous
@@kenshiloh Fortunately, most people have morals, of course nothiing matters on the biggest scale, but that doesn'tean anything. All we experience is this life so we may as well spend it trying to be happy and make other people's experiences positive because on the scale of our lives, those things do matter
So...
A genotype is a language description of the heritable information. [R-r heterozygous (incomplete)].
A phenotype is the phenomenal experience of the set of expressed genes an organism shows to the world. (The above flower is pink, an incomplete mix of red and white.)
And lastly alleles are just the ordered list of all possible combination choices. (A red allele and a white allele.)
(Only for richard dawkins fans) what do you guys think of sam harris? Really curious to get an outside view of him
He’s brilliant… an Atheist, a woke person.
@@GaryG63 how do you think Dr. Harris is "woke?" Is it his fervent TDS that had a hold of him for a few years, or something else?
@sam.harris can you define Balkanisation? What meaning you put the n this word?
Term Balkanusation is used when a group is split into different mutually hostile groups..
Heroes
Backwards ball cap helps keep hair out of eyes. The bill blocks visual field of view, so there.
Nothing worst than a grown man wearing his hat backwards it looks stupid. My cousin who in his 50 s was wearing his hat backwards dam it looked dumb
This is just Sam Harris dragging on and on and on.
Who loves Rechard Dawkins?
The number of ads in this video is incredibly disruptive
1:03 - imagine what Dawkins would make of Cancel Culture now ?
(I like the idea of kittens and puppies though)
What cancel culture ?
Yet in pairs of socks there really is a left and a right one distinguished by the seam, though most people are ignorant of this and it was pointed out to me at what I thought was embarrassingly old age--but it wasn't, considering RD and SH have lived much longer than I in that ignorance.
My feet never complained about mixing them 😂
A human body is burly, gnarly and surly like a fractal.
What's the name of the person at 34:40 I dont seem to get the name? Thanks
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
@@tera1755 Thank you so much. I did some reading, Its really sad that her friend, a relative of Vincent Van gough was killed in a country like Neterlands. :(
The point of automation is to relieve humans of doing the work. The ideal in years gone by, by many inventors was to make a utopian world where all humans could share the freedom and riches of the world without laboring for them. Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek First Contact says "monetary gain is no longer the driving force in our lives" Gene Roddenberry's ideal hope for humankind was a world where greed was eliminated and wealth shared so that all people could pursue their own personal meaning and worth.
Universal Intelligence is Dr. Richard Dawkins
I loved this encounter. But I wonder what's the point of talking in front of an audience who doesn't interact.
because the general public is stupid, just skip to the Q&A and you'll hear one or two of those idiots. better to let the two bona fide geniuses talk for as long as possible.
Paid audiance generate income
@@shravanraj3108 Right, good point 😊
They wrote questions when they arrived. 🤨
Dawkins socks ❤️