3 December 2008 Richard Dawkins: The God of the Old Testament

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

Cortesia Dwindling In Unbelief

Religião, uma resposta evolutiva?

Já vi o Richard Dawkins comentar esta ideia de a religião/fé ser um produto da evolução.

A ver se descubro o vídeo para o colocar aqui.

Entretanto, Pascal Boyer dá nos a sua opinião sobre o assunto.

Religion: Bound to believe?
by Pascal Boyer

Reposted from:
http://naturereprints.com/nature/journal/v455/n7216/full/4551038a.html

"Atheism will always be a harder sell than religion, Pascal Boyer explains, because a slew of cognitive traits predispose us to faith."

"Is religion a product of our evolution? The very question makes many people, religious or otherwise, cringe, although for different reasons. Some people of faith fear that an understanding of the processes underlying belief could undermine it. Others worry that what is shown to be part of our evolutionary heritage will be interpreted as good, true, necessary or inevitable. Still others, many scientists included, simply dismiss the whole issue, seeing religion as childish, dangerous nonsense."

"Such responses make it difficult to establish why and how religious thought is so pervasive in human societies — an understanding that is especially relevant in the current climate of religious fundamentalism. In asking whether religion is one of the many consequences of having the type of brains we come equipped with, we can shed light on what kinds of religion 'come naturally' to human minds. We can probe the shared assumptions that religions are built on, however disparate, and examine the connection between religion and ethnic conflict. Lastly, we can hazard a guess at what the realistic prospects are for atheism."

Cortesia RichardDawkins.net

Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.

Pascal Boyer - Wikipédia

Pascal Boyer - Wikipédia

Richard Dawkins - Wikipédia

Richard Dawkins - Página oficial

Richard Dawkins on fairy tales and retirement

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Versão em Quicktime

Richard Dawkins - Wikipédia

Richard Dawkins - Página oficial

BBC Horizon: The President's Guide to Science

Cortesia Atheist Media Blog

BBC Horizon: The President's Guide to Science (Google Vídeo)

BBC Horizon: The President's Guide to Science (Google Vídeo - Link directo para download - Formato mp4)

BBC Horizon - Wikipédia

BBC Horizon: The President's Guide to Science - Página oficial

Ai a TVI, jornalismo único!

"Tem aumentado o número de portugueses que recorrem à física quântica para melhorarem o bem-estar e a saúde. Partindo do principio que «somos o que comemos» é fácil concluir que numa sociedade cada vez mais exigente e stressante facilmente entramos em desequilíbrio. E é aqui que entra a física quântica e a possibilidade de reequilibrar o organismo e as frequências dos órgãos."

Vejam o resto do post do Professor Carlos Fiolhais no blog DeRerum Natura, esta nossa TVI reflecte bem até que ponto a ignorância cientifica deste nosso Portugal é aproveitado por meia dúzia de chico-espertos...

Um documento interessante para ver é o programa Enemies of Reason, de Richard Dawkins, cujos links podem ser encontrados aqui.

Caro Sagan, o mundo está realmente infestado de Demónios.

Carl Sagan - Wikipédia

Carl Sagan - Um mundo infestado de Demónios - Wikipédia

The Genius of Charles Darwin

The Genius of Charles Darwin - Life, Darwin & Everything - Parte 1 de 3

Link para o Google Vídeo

Link directo para o download (formato mp4)

The Genius of Charles Darwin - The Fifth Ape - Parte 2 de 3

Link para o Google Vídeo

Link directo para o download (formato mp4)

The Genius of Charles Darwin - God Strikes Back - Parte 3 de 3

Link para o Google Vídeo

Link directo para o download (formato mp4)

The Genius of Charles Darwin - Wikipédia

The Genius of Charles Darwin - Página oficial

Richard Dawkins - Wikipédia

Richard Dawkins - Página oficial

On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

UK TV Only: Richard Dawkins examines the legacy of Charles Darwin. The three part programme will be broadcast on Channel Four at 8 pm on Monday 4th, Monday 11th and Monday 18th August.

This is the third program by the same team that created 'Root of All Evil?' and 'The Enemies of Reason'.

Os documentários podem ser encontrados aqui.

Richard Dawkins - Wikipédia

Richard Dawkins - Página oficial

The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science

Algo para poderem ouvir.

Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Harvard University

The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science

The twenty-second Harvard University series of Tanner Lectures on Human Values 2003

Lecture 1: The Science of Religion
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 5:00 P.M.

Lecture 2: The Religion of Science
Thursday, November 20, 5:00 2003 at P.M.

Seminar with Dr. Dawkins and Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University and Keith Rose, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Friday, November 21, 2003 at 10:00-12:00 noon

Richard Dawkins - The Science of Religion - Part 1 (1:02:05, 28.5 MB - mp3)
Richard Dawkins - The Science of Religion - Part 2 (35:35, 16.3 MB - mp3)

Richard Dawkins - The Religion of Science - Part 1 (54:07, 24.8 MB - mp3)
Richard Dawkins - The Religion of Science - Part 2 (35:36, 16.3 MB - mp3)

Seminar with Dawkins, Pinker, DeRose - Part 1 (1:00:01, 27.5 MB - mp3)
Seminar with Dawkins, Pinker, DeRose - Part 2 (57:30, 26.4 MB - mp3)

Cortesia RichardDawkins.Net

Richard Dawkins Q & A

Richard Dawkins takes some questions on a radio program on February 27, 2008.

Lee Strobel is a fellow at the Discovery Institute. he was no scientific education.



Entrevista com Richard Dawkins - WPR Wisconsin (entrevista completa , formato mp3, 22 megas, 48.06)

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The Giant Tortoise's Tale

This is the second of 3 tales to be posted. They were written immediately after The Ancestor's Tale was completed, and would have been included if Richard had visited the Galapagos Islands before the book was published.

The audio is Richard Dawkins reading the article, and video footage was then added over it.

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Filmed and Edited by Josh Timonen

"The Giant Tortoise's Tale" by Richard Dawkins

I am writing this on a boat (called the Beagle, as it happens) in the Galápagos archipelago, whose most famous inhabitants are the eponymous (in Spanish) giant tortoises, and whose most famous visitor is that giant of the mind, Charles Darwin. In his account of the voyage of the original Beagle, written long before the central idea of The Origin of Species condensed out of his brain, Darwin wrote of the Galápagos Islands:

"Most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else; there is even a difference between the inhabitants of the different islands; yet all show a marked relationship with those of [South] America, though separated from that continent by an open space of ocean, between 500 and 600 miles in width. The archipelago is a little world within itself ... Considering the small size of the islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range ... we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact - that mystery of mysteries - the first appearance of new beings on this earth."

Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.

Cortesia RichardDawkins.net

The God Delusion University Tour 2008

See all of the dates in on our calendar page:

The Salamander's Tale

This isn't "Part 2" in our 3-part tales videos, but this is a youtube video created by RodHullIAmHim for an actual section in The Ancestor's Tale, called "The Salamander's Tale". The audio is from the audiobook version, read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward. If anyone else would like to create a tale video, send it in!

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God Delusion documentary excerpt

Já deixei aqui alguns vídeos da criatura Ted Haggard.

Deixo agora um excerto do documentário The Root of all Evil, o qual também já deixei aqui para poderem visualizar e retirar.

DLD08 - Life: a gene-centric view

Link: sevenload.com

Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter sit down for a discussion at Digital Life Design 2008. John Brockman moderates.

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'The Lava Lizard's Tale' by Richard Dawkins

"A guide at the Natural History Museum stated confidently that a particular dinosaur was 70,000,008 years old. When asked how he could be so precise he replied, "Well it was 70 million when I started this job, and that was eight years ago." The evident experience of Valentina Cruz, our wonderful Galápagos naturalist guide, suggests that I must add a similar margin to the estimate of 100 years that she gave us for the age of the black lava fields on the island of Santiago. The exact date of the great Santiago eruption is not recorded, but it definitely happened on one particular day in one particular year around 1900. I shall call it SV day (Santiago volcano day). I need to seem as precise as the museum guide, although the exact date doesn't matter. Perhaps it was January 19 1897, 100 plus eight years before my visit to the island."


Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.

Cortesia RichardDawkins.net

A importância da Ciência

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world."

Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key."

Carl Sagan - ("Wonder and Skepticism", Skeptical Enquirer Volume 19, Issue 1, (January-February 1995)

Podemos encontrar no Google Vídeo uma série de vídeos dedicados à necessidade de uma maior divulgação da ciência, Break the Science Barrier.

SCIENCE is useful but that is not all it is. Science can be uplifting, thrilling, life-enhancing. Originally broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 in 1996, Break the Science Barrier follows the Oxford Biologist Richard Dawkins as he meets with people who have experienced the wonders of science first-hand.

We meet the astronomer who first discovered pulsars, the geneticist who invented DNA fingerprinting, a scientist who discovered a protein that causes cancer, and others. Dawkins interviews famous admirers of science such as Douglas Adams and David Attenborough, and asks them why science means so much to them.

We also see how dangerous ignorance of science can be in classrooms, courts, and beyond.

With so many expressing paranormal beliefs and ignorance of science, Dawkins encourages viewers to contrast these ancient superstitions with the power and beauty of our scientific achievements and understanding.

Link para o episódio 1 - QuickTime - Google Vídeo

Link para o episódio 2 - QuickTime - Google Vídeo

Link para o episódio 3 - QuickTime - Google Vídeo

Cortesia De Rerum Natura

Richard Dawkins - Página oficial

Richard Dawkins - Fundação para a Razão e Ciência

Dave's Richard Dawkins Resource Page

Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker (Google Vídeo)

Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker - Wikipédia

Richard Dawkins - Enemies Of Reason

Richard Dawkins - Enemies Of Reason - Parte 1 de 2 (Google Vídeo)

Richard Dawkins - Enemies Of Reason - Parte 2 de 2 (Google Vídeo)

Dawkins interview about The Enemies of Reason (Google Vídeo)

Richard Dawkins - Enemies Of Reason - Wikipédia

Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil?

The Root of All Evil? é absolutamente fantástico!!!

E concordo inteiramente com ele, a religião corrompe e destrói tudo o que toca.

In this Channel 4 documentary British evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins argues that the world would be better off without religion.

He thinks that "the process of non-thinking called faith" is not a way of understanding the world, but instead stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.

Richard Dawkins - The Root of all Evil? - The God Delusion - Parte 1 de 2 (Google Vídeo)

Richard Dawkins - The Root of all Evil? - The Virus Of Faith - Parte 2 de 2 (Google Vídeo)

Richard Dawkins - Nice guys finish first

Produced in the mid 1980s by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC's Horizon series.

It was based mainly on the chapter of the same name in the second edition of "The Selfish Gene".

Richard Dawkins - Nice guys finish first - (Google Vídeo)