Richard Dawkins
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My team sent me the following clips of Dr Jordan B Peterson He says I’m a Christian, although I don’t know it. Well, I certainly don’t know it. He also says I’m “the last standing avatar of the rationalist spirit.” I’ll take that! Also, I'm still waiting for the in-person conversation Peterson keeps talking about…
Richard Dawkins3,000,136 次观看 • 2 年前
I’m in America at the start of a five-week tour of America promoting this book, The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie, which is being published on the 17th of September in America. I’m having a good time. I’m in Texas—the first stop was Dallas, and the second stop is here in Austin. I’ve enjoyed both. I’ve especially enjoyed the book signings, where a large number of people have thanked me for changing their lives, which is a wonderful thing to be told. Many have also told me I’ve inspired them to take up a career in biology, to do a doctorate in biology, for example. So I have been very pleased about that, and I’m enjoying myself in America very much. I’m also looking forward to getting back to England, where I am continuing the tour there.
Richard Dawkins516,604 次观看 • 1 年前
.Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a hero, a staunch fighter against the violent intolerance and bossy control freakery of Islamism. She is also a personal friend of whom I am very fond. When she recently announced her conversion to Christianity, I assumed that she must be no more than a political Christian, regarding Christianity as a bulwark against Islam. I have some sympathy with the view that if you must have a religion at all, Christianity is hugely better than the leading alternative. In Hilaire Belloc’s words, “Always keep a-hold of Nurse for fear of finding something worse.” I agreed to have a public conversation with her in New York, in which I was all prepared to emphasize the distinction between a political Christian and a true believing Christian, who actually thinks Jesus was born of a virgin and rose from the dead. I think the distinction is a really important one. I don’t think a political Christian is a real Christian, any more than the kind of cultural Christian I am myself. When we met on the stage at the Dissident Dialogues meeting in New York, I was wrongfooted when Ayaan began with a personal statement which seemed to suggest that she really is a believing Christian, not just a political Christian. Well, her form of words was “I choose to believe.” I’m not sure what to make of that. Anyways, see what you think; here is the recording of our New York meeting.
Richard Dawkins472,377 次观看 • 2 年前