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Richard Dawkins uncut interview with PZ Myers – VIDEO PART 1
In this first part of the interview Richard Dawkins plays the game brainstorming with PZ Myers, one of the leading professional voices in evolutionary biology, by thoroughly debating the subject of religion, creationism, “intelligent design” and the right way we should educate the people who believe this kind of “fairy stories” to be more skeptical and, consequently, persuade them to accept the obvious truth of natural selection and Darwinian evolution.
Group selection theory, overthrown by gene selection theory some 30-40 years ago, is put into discussion by Dawkins which analyzes it in parallel with clade selection theory. Also, the evolution of evolvability, the trajectory in evolutionary time of different kinds of clades and phylums, the importance and role of symmetry in the evolution of embryological systems, all these are discussed in depth by the two authors.
References :
- Richard Dawkins – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Richard Dawkins Foundation
- PZ Myers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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about 9 months ago
In video #4 PZ makes an error when discussing the separation of church and state in the US Constitution. The First Amendment was written to protect religious expression from government intervention, yes, but also to protect the state from the tyranny of the church. Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying, “In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.” He also said, “And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter.”