christopher hitchens delivers yet another masterpiece
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hang in there hitch

holy hallucinations 21
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finally here039s my reply to onceforgivennowfree039s matt039s response to holy hallucinations 20 it039s taken me quite a while to make this because it was the most difficult script i039ve had to write so far not because of the quality of his arguments i should add but because of the sheer number of new subjects he introduced the original was twice as long as the final product and as it is this is the longest video i039ve ever made and give039s matt far more attention than he merits so deciding what not to address was quite a chorethe topics i would have like to have dealt with in more detail include some of his comments on the quotwhat is lifequot panel discussion some more information on abiogenesis and the evolution of proteins and more details on his example of the evolution of domestic dogs in the latter case i could have gone on for much longer but because of time constraints chose to focus on matt039s claims about information loss and not the evolutionary process itself in this instance i would have liked to include more details on: exactly why evolutionary theory predicts that these processes should be unidirectional which matt seems to think argues against it why some alleles are actually lost from these populations by processes such as genetic drift and how new ones ie information arise including numerous new mutations in extant dog breeds to provide new variation for selection to act onthe video i039m responding to quotthelivingdinosaur gets fossilizedquot can be found at:http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=x4ppi1bglw8also thanks to everyone who took the time to give me their opinion on my animation style the majority of you were happy with it but a significant number suggested that maybe the number of images could be reduced a little i039ve tried to do that here by slowing down the speed of the images so they stay on screen for longer this obviously means less images and potential puns but on the up side it also speeds things up for me so the video takes less time to make anyway feel free to let me know if this makes things better or worse whether you can039t tell the difference or don039t give a tossfinally i039m serving on jury duty for the whole of next month and i039m not sure how balancing that with work and home will eat into my spare time so it might be up to a couple of months before you see a new video on this channel so be patient and as always thanks for your support and stay tunedthe youtubers i recommened in the video are:http:wwwyoutubecommichaelpayton67http:wwwyoutubecomdasamericanatheisthttp:wwwyoutubecomtheoreticalbullshithttp:wwwyoutubecomprofmthhttp:wwwyoutubecomitsthesuperflyif you039re somehow unaware of any of these amazing video makers then you really should check them out - oh and do let them know who sent you if you decide to subscribetheoretical bullshit039s videos on morality highly recommended:http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=dwnw-nxeudkhttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=-rqkskhzrcchttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=-rqkskhzrccfinally the paper on the in silico simulation of the evolution of information and a java applet of the program you can play with by yourself can be found at:http:alummiteduwwwtomspapersevindexhtmlmusic: antonio vivaldi 01 flute concerto in g major flute no 15 concerto for orchestra in c major fxi no 25 concerto for orchestra in d minor fxii no 31

imagine if all atheists left america
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highlighting what would happen if all atheists were to leave america details of who would leave what would change and a look at other countries with virtually no atheismreuploaded from conversationwitha - http:wwwyoutubecomuserconversationwithasources:over 10 of american population are atheist:http:wwwatheistempirecomreferencestatsindexphpless than 021 of prisoners are atheist:http:holysmokeorgicr-prihtmin response to a freedom of information act request the federal bureau of prisons says that on february 12 2010 atheists accounted for just 008 of the prison population: http:bornatheistcomfilesfederal_prison_statisticspdfmajority of nobel prize winners atheist:the religiosity and religious affiliation of nobel prize winners beit-hallahmi 1989majority of university professors atheist:religion and spirituality among university scientists ecklund 2007majority of scientists atheist:http:freethoughtpediacomwikiscientists_and_atheismatheist intellectuals:http:brainzorg50-most-brilliant-atheists-all-timehttp:wwwcelebatheistscomtitle=category:atheistatheist celebrities:http:wwwcelebatheistscomtitle=main_pagepoverty rate lower among atheists:society without god zuckerman 2008http:wwwamazoncomsociety-without-god-religious-contentmentdp0814797148http:wwwsecularhumanismorgindexphpsection=libraryampamppage=pzuckerman_26_5http:wwwpitzereduacademicsfacultyzuckermanzuckerman_on_atheismpdfiq higher among atheists:http:wwwinterfaithorg20080620study-links-atheism-to-high-iqhttp:wwwtelegraphcouknewsuknews2111174intelligent-people-less-likely-to-believe-in-godhtmlilliteracy rate lower among atheists:united nations human development report 2004http:hdrundporgenmediahdr04_completepdfaverage income higher among atheists:united nations human development report 2004http:hdrundporgenmediahdr04_completepdfdivorce rate lower among atheists:http:wwwreligioustoleranceorgchr_dirahtmteen pregnancy rate lower among atheists:http:wwwamericablogcom200901red-states-dominate-teen-pregnancyhtmlabortions lower among atheists:cross-national correlations of quantifiable societal health with popular religiosity and secularism in the prosperous democracies: a first look paul 2005http:mosescreightonedujrs20052005-11htmlstd infection lower among atheists:http:wwwtimesonlinecouktolnewsukarticle571206ececrime rate lower among atheists:cross-national correlations of quantifiable societal health with popular religiosity and secularism in the prosperous democracies: a first look paul 2005homicide rate lower among atheists:cross-national correlations of quantifiable societal health with popular religiosity and secularism in the prosperous democracies: a first look paul 2005percentage of atheists in the countries mentioned:http:wwwadherentscom

pwning darkmatter
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pwn darkmatter well i am the only one who could i don039t actually imagine mrsdm is someone else it was just a funny way to treat the conclusion of quotthe real godquot video though i did pioneer the precognitive 180 posting this video pretty much assures that i039ll never be able to use it again are you beginning to comprehend the sacrifices i make for my beloved substhis video is making fun of this one:http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=-j8zmmuu7muroyalty free music in this video by synthaurionhttp:wwwjamendocomenalbum75359

what we saw at the reason rally - atheism amp religion
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reasontv headed down to the national mall for the reason rally no affiliation in washington dc the march 24 event was billed as the quotlargest gathering of the secular movement in world historyquot and drew a several thousand-strong crowd of damp enthusiastic unbelievers and a few protesting believers to the national mall reasontv asked a few of these folks why they bothered to gather on a rainy saturdayproduced by joshua swain interviews by lucy steigerwaldapproximately 247 minutes long go to http:reasontv for hd ipod and audio versions of this video and subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live

god is everywhere
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science ampamp reason on facebook: http:tinyurlcomsciencereasonstephen fry bigthink: god is everywhere---please subscribe to science ampamp reason: http:wwwyoutubecombest0fscience http:wwwyoutubecomsciencemagazine http:wwwyoutubecomsciencetv http:wwwyoutubecomffreethinker---question: what do you believestephen fry: its interesting atheism comes into rather a bad press and i suppose id rather describe myself as a humanist who human i dont believe in god i dont believe there is a god if i were to believe in a god l would believe in gods i think monotheism is the really ghastly thing that is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehensioni can perfectly see why anybody might imagine that each thing each thing that grows each phenomenon that we that accompanies us on our journey through life the sky the mountains spirits of nature i can imagine why man would wish to endow them with an inner something an inner animus that they would call the god of that thingi can see that its a beautiful and charming way of looking at it and i can understand the greek idea that there are these you know these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them to personify them into a athena or aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense but to say that there is one only god who made it all and who is yeah that is just what why who said where come onand i love how when people watch i dont know david attenborough or discovery planet type thing you know where you see the absolute phenomenal majesty and complexity and bewildering beauty of nature and you stare at it and then and somebody next to you goes and how can you say there is no god look at thatand then five minutes later youre looking at the lifecycle of a parasitic worm whose job is to bury itself in the eyeball of a little lamb and eat the eyeball from inside while the lamb dies in horrible agony and then you turn to them and say yeah where is your god nowyou know i mean you got you cant just say there is a god because well the world i beautiful you have to account for bone cancer in children you have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths there is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a god and ignore the true fact of what nature isthe wonder of nature must be taken in its totality and it is a wonderful thing it is absolutely marvelous and the idea that an atheist or a humanist if you want to put it that way doesnt marvel and wonder at reality at the way things are is nonsensical the point is we wonder all the way we dont just stop and say that which i cannot understand i will call god which is what mankind has done historically thats to say god was absolutely everything a thousand or two thousand years ago because we understood almost nothing about the natural world so it could all be god and then as we understood more god receded and receded and receded so suddenly now he is barely anywhere he is just in those things we dont understand which are important but i think it just is such an insult to humanity and the greeks got it rightthe greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious unkind malicious mostly temperamental envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes all right if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that theyre very at the very least capricious theyre certainly not consistent theyre certainly not all loving i mean really its just not good enoughyou know if we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks which is the most important thing really isnt it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral frameworkthere is a very clear way of demonstrating logically how absurd that is because the warrant for that logical framework for that moral framework that comes from god is always tested against mans own morals and its a complicated argument but i mean thats you know its the standard one which is pretty unanswerable but the idea that we dont know right from wrong but we have to take it from words put down in a book two three four five six thousand years ago and dictated to rather hotheaded neurotic desert tribes is just insultinghttp:bigthinkcom

billy connolly on catholicism sarah palin and 039how039 vs 039why039
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billy connolly interviewed by his wife dr pamela connolly for more4039s 039shrink rap039 10pm 131208

carl sagan: you are here carl sagan tribute series part 10
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download the mp3 version at http:milkywaymusingscomthis video is part 10 of my continuing tribute to the late carl saganpart 1: a universe not made for us http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=pxlpvsanwoopart 2: consider again that pale blue dot http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=p_naqhynog0part 3: wanderers http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=lpm-vkpikr0part 4: the gift of apollo http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=0xuar6vbxxupart 5: the backbone of night http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=3zb6gapg3ympart 6: the edge of forever http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=d4tytgv1x28part 7: the great demotions http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=z-6wxzxouv8part 8: to the sky http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=kyt85mci-bkpart 9: darkness http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=veiewq7rf4gpart 10: you are here http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=p9tieubf9sspart 11: the story of everything coming soonpart 12: the blessing and the curse coming soonplaylist: http:wwwyoutubecomusercallumcglpgriduser73e5e40315ea40feexcerpts from carl sagan039s pale blue dot: a vision of the human future in space and cosmos more specifically from the chapter titled you are here i edited together the audio from the audiobook and added the video from:- apocalypse: the second world war- bbc039s planet earth- bbc039s the root of all evil with richard dawkins- bbc039s walking with cavemen- bbc039s wonders of the solar system with brian cox- carl sagan039s cosmos- discovery039s into the universe with stephen hawkingthe music is quotthe science of faithquot quotla fleurquot and quotfor love of the damequot by michael giacchino from the lost soundtrackthe carl sagan tribute series will continue please subscribe to my channel if you wish to be among the first to see my newest videosif you enjoyed this video read the magnificent book from which it originated: http:wwwamazoncompale-blue-dot-vision-futuredp0345376595ref=sr_1_1ie=utf8ampamps=booksampampqid=1278371196ampampsr=8-1also highly recommended cosmic connection: http:wwwamazoncomcarl-sagans-cosmic-connection-extraterrestrialdp0521783038ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_11

richard dawkins and lawrence krauss: something from nothing at anu
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critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist richard dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author lawrence krauss discuss biology cosmology religion and a host of other topics at this event entitled 039something for nothing039 this video was recorded at the australian national university on 10 april 2012richard dawkins frs is the charles simonyi professor of the public understanding of science at the university of oxford born in british colonial africa he was educated in england where he now lives he did his doctorate at oxford under the nobel prize winning zoologist niko tinbergen then was briefly an assistant professor at the university of california berkeley from 1967 to 1969 after which he returned to oxford first as a lecturer in zoology then reader before being elected to his present professorshiphe is the author of nine books: the selfish gene 1976 2nd ed 1989 the extended phenotype 1982 the blind watchmaker 1986 river out of eden 1995 climbing mount improbable 1996 unweaving the rainbow 1998 a devil039s chaplain 2003 the ancestor039s tale 2004 and the god delusion 2006 the god delusion has sold more than two million copies in english and is being published in 30 other languages dawkins is now editing an anthology of scientific writing for oxford university press the oxford book of modern science writing in 2006 to promote the values of education science and critical thinking skills he established the richard dawkins foundation for reason and science rdfrs which is now a registered charity in both the uk and usarichard dawkins has honorary doctorates of literature as well as science and is a fellow of both the royal society and the royal society of literature he has been awarded the silver medal of the zoological society of london the michael faraday award of the royal society the nakayama prize the cosmos international prize the kistler prize the shakespeare prize and the lewis thomas prizelawrence m krauss is a renowned cosmologist and science populariser and is foundation professor in the school of earth and space exploration and director of the origins project at arizona state university hailed by scientific american as a rare public intellectual he is also the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and nine books including the international bestseller the physics of star trek and his most recent bestseller entitled a universe from nothinghe received his phd from mit in 1982 and then joined the society of fellows at harvard and was a professor at yale university and chair of the physics department at case western reserve university before taking his present position internationally known for his work in theoretical physics he is the winner of numerous international awards and is the only physicist to have received major awards from all three us physics societies the american physical society the american institute of physics and the american association of physics teachers krauss is also a commentator and essayist for newspapers such as the new york times and the wall st journal and has written regular columns for new scientist and scientific american and appears regularly on radio and television he is one of the few scientists to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture and is also active in issues of science and society he serves as co-chair of the board of sponsors of the bulletin of the atomic scientists and on the board of directors of the federation of american scientists

carl sagan: the story of everything carl sagan tribute series part 11
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this video is part 11 of my continuing tribute to the late carl saganpart 1: a universe not made for us http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=pxlpvsanwoopart 2: consider again that pale blue dot http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=p_naqhynog0part 3: wanderers http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=lpm-vkpikr0part 4: the gift of apollo http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=0xuar6vbxxupart 5: the backbone of night http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=3zb6gapg3ympart 6: the edge of forever http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=d4tytgv1x28part 7: the great demotions http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=z-6wxzxouv8part 8: to the sky http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=kyt85mci-bkpart 9: darkness http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=veiewq7rf4gpart 10: you are here http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=p9tieubf9sspart 11: the story of everything http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=u49i8hymp2kpart 12: the blessing and the curse coming soonpart 13: the frailty of knowledge coming soonplaylist: http:wwwyoutubecomusercallumcglpgriduser73e5e40315ea40feexcerpts were taken from carl sagan039s cosmos more specifically from the episode titled who speaks for earth i edited together the audio from the documentary and added the video from:- apollo 13 film- bbc039s charles darwin and the tree of life- bbc039s enemies of reason with richard dawkins- bbc039s space race- bbc039s the big bang machine with brian cox- bbc039s the planets- bbc039s the root of all evil with richard dawkins- bbc039s walking with cavemen- bbc039s walking with dinosaurs- bbc039s walking with monsters- bbc039s wonders of the solar system with brian cox- bbc039s wonders of the universe with brian cox- carl sagan039s cosmos- cbc039s asteroid: the doomsday rock- discovery039s into the universe with stephen hawking- discovery039s super structures- history039s modern marvels- history039s project orion- hubble: 15 years of discovery- imax: hubble- national geographic039s death of the universe- pbs039s novathe song is quotfordlandiaquot by jhann jhannssonthe carl sagan tribute series will continue please subscribe to my channel if you wish to be among the first to see my newest videosif you enjoyed this video watch the magnificent documentary from which it originated: http:wwwamazoncomcosmos-carl-sagan-dvd-setdpb000055zobalso highly recommended cosmos: http:wwwamazoncomcosmos-carl-sagandp0345331354

bang goes the theory: evolution made simple
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bbc2 22 august 2011dr yan attempts to demonstrate evolution by drawing a couple of linesquotnothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolutionquot--theodosius dobzhansky the above phrase is the title of his 1973 essaydobzhansky was a prominent geneticist evolutionary biologist and critic of anti-evolution creationism he was also a russian orthodox christianhis essay in full: http:peopledelphiforumscomlordormandobzhanskypdf

noah039s ark found again - the atheist experience 655
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in 2010 noah039s ark was found again but this time 999 certainty or so the evangelist scientists from china say martin and russell responda clip from the atheist experience 655 of may 2 2010 with russell glasser and martin wagner topic: viewer callsthis entire episode can be watched on bliptv and ustreamtv: http:wwwbliptvfile3577895 http:wwwustreamtvrecorded6628794what is the atheist experiencethe atheist experience is a weekly cable access television show in austin texas geared at a non-atheist audience it is produced by the atheist community of austin the atheist community of austin is organized as a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship to promote secular viewpoints to encourage positive atheist culture to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goalsvisit the aca039s official web sites: http:wwwatheist-experiencecom http:wwwatheistcommunityorgtheme song:quotlisten to reasonquot by bryan steeksma http:wwwmyspacecombryansteeksma

god sucks the atheist experience
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recently the question was asked why god who supposedly loves everyone spends all his time up in heaven drinking smoking dope watching tv and wanking why does he not help starving children in third world countries who are unable to help themselves this is often used as an argument to show how idiotic the whole idea of a god is but of course the church wasn039t happy with this and tried to defend god by pointing out that everyone has their own fetishes and perhaps god needs to see suffering kids in order to get a boner

ken ham vs rev barry lynn over tax funded bible theme park
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january 27 2011 on cnn - http:auorg - via http:atheistmediacom

the evolution of the eye 2010 - richard dawkins
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