Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen

00:00:01 One of the things weíve all met is the accusation that we are strident or arrogant

00:05:23 view of physics is disproved or challenged. I mean, this is just not the way rational

00:10:20 to criticise it, because you are talking about the most important moments in peopleís lives

00:14:28 do know what you mean.

00:18:52 Yes, that was amazing luck!

00:24:08 all, children. And I think weíve, all of us, been accused of going after the easy targets

00:28:56 literalism, weíre as fundamentalist as the fundamentalists, and yet these moderates donít

00:34:52 notion of authority, because religious people often argue that science is just a tissue

00:40:25 do the physics to actually test the predictions, ícause anybody can read the dials on a Ö

00:45:17 weíll kill you, yes.

00:50:15 note in ëThe End of Faithí, where I say, ìany text can be read". Well, with the eyes

00:54:40 ëFreedom Evolvesí. I kept running into critics who were basically expressing something very

01:00:03 William James and to have had, to be able to judge other peopleís subjective experiences

01:05:46 is one of those cosmic shifts that Dennett and Dawkins and Harris and Hitchens are talking

01:10:06 A task in which, by the way, one gets very little secular support.

01:13:36 Astrology is a pale Ö

01:18:52 the conflict between Islam and modernity. But yes, you can find instances in the history

01:24:03 But could you concretise it just a little more? Iím completely Ö

01:28:34 But, in any case, what conclusion would you draw? I mean, if Donneís devotional poetry

01:33:55 And they sing the songs and they do the rituals, but where the irrationality has simply

01:37:35 Scruton and that rather very weird team that we debated, who kept on saying, Scruton particularly

01:42:16 Yes. That I should somehow be so hypocritical as to say grace. And I had could only say

01:47:43 Yes.

01:52:38 a matter of numbers Ö