Baraka_Guru

A link to the video from which this clip is taken has been posted elsewhere here, but I found this highlight rather entertaining. I thought I should share it with you.

Here Dawkins was speaking about his book The God Delusion. What this short clip shows is his response to questions about Liberty University (founded by Jerry Falwell) claiming to have on display fossils of dinosaurs that are only a few thousand years old.

It's must-see:

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Slims

Well played.

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Willravel

Whoa, whoa, whoa... are you telling me that the Flintstones isn't an historical fiction?

sapiens

Thanks for the video. I thought that he was very reserved (for Dawkins anyway).

Willravel

The man asking the question is lucky it wasn't Christopher Hitchens up there.

Nimetic

Not bad.

So they'll have to date that elephant skeleton a few more times eh?

Baraka_Guru

I think they mixed up giraffe, elephant, and whale bones.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

CinnamonGirl

Nice. I like the comparison of years to distance.

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LuxoDave

I heart Richard Dawkins.

Sticky

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this title was Chocolate Thunder:

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Iliftrocks

Wasn't he the one who used to do the Family Feud?? heh

What he really wanted to say for an answer to dinosaurs being thousands of years old was simply to point and laugh.

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