Hey Peter Saunders. Thanks very much. I too was a little miffed that more nutters didn't take the opportunity to call.I called the local Christian station and told them that it was going to be on and when but...... nothing. In the interest of fairness and balance of course!Oh well.CheersGraeme
Thank you for managing to get an interview with Richard Dawkins. I thought the interviewer was very well prepared and informed, unlike so many other media types, and it seemed that Dawkins appreciated that. I wish there had been more questions, but I am just being greedy, 45 minutes is a good long time to have someone of his stature on the air. Many of my fellow New Zealanders will not know that he was voted the top public intellectual in the UK, so we are not talking about the duchess of York here. I am glad that there was at least one nutter with the numerology question, otherwise Dawkins would have got the wrong impression ! There are a lot of the credulous Kiwi cadre out there, and we must be on guard against them and what they try to teach their own and our children. I was not a Radio Live listener before this interview, but I will be checking out this website from time to time if this is the standard of discussion I can expect. So well done and really, it is a bit like getting to interview the Obama of the rational world so congrats for not fucking it up ! BTW as an example of an interview with a biased and dopey christian announcer, have you heard this one with Christopher Hitchens ? Hitchens wipes the floor with him, although I'm not sure the announcer noticed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZB0lLIcXIA
Hi folks. I was really impressed by Richard's hair. There's something very "I like to noodle about in the shed" about it. Charming. A little behind the scenes report here... I had to almost physically pry Richard away from our astronomer Grant Christie in order to get him seated and ready for the interview. I am quite sure that Richard would have rather talked with Dr Christie than me. Two great minds engaged together and there I was, the ugly guy tapping on a shoulder for a dance. However, there wouldn't have been the interview otherise. Cheers, Graeme Hill
Video did'nt load for me using Chrome, worked fine with IE8. (Vista)
Why won't these douchebags just let us download the damned file? Is it going to cut into their lucrative radio show CD sales?
28:20 - (Q) If God is almighty, why isn't everything perfect? (my A) Everything may well be perfect. The idea of good and bad is a way of looking at the world. But at a larger scale, what humans call good or bad is just a symptom of language and (moral) feeling of a species, on a planet, in a galaxy, in a universe, or a so-called multiverse. Hence, possibly quite a minor issue at universal level. If at a multiverse level, for example, diversity were the sine-qua-non practical ideal, then (moral) imperfection would be a prerequisite for such a universe to exist. In any case, if the world (or multiverse) is perfect, then the very debate between theism and atheism is part of that perfection, let alone the existence of anything and everything (even if only in human minds), including pain, evil itself and God. 32:33 - (Q) How do you respond to people who say that your belief in science is just as fundamentalist [...] and your worldview is just one amongst many other valid ways of looking at the world? (A) This is a rather pernicious fallacy that you find all over the place, that everybody's opinion is equally valid and your opinion's no better than mine and vice-versa. This is nonsense [...]. You have to look at the evidence. (Me) Duh, that's precisely science's credo, in the same way that someone else would say "You have to look to the Bible". I'm afraid Mr. Dawkins might be a an Evidence fundamentalist.] 38:26 (Dawkins) Quantum theory is very very specific about the particular kinds of things it needs to postulate. It is very much NOT an anything-goes science. (me) Anything may not go in quantum theory, but anything MIGHT well go in the real multiverse (or Universe if you prefer). If the "sum" of all universes in any (even potential post- or meta-) multiverse if you want, contains all the possible outcomes of all the possible premises for example, then everything can be true at the same space and time and whatever other potential dimension you may possibly imagine, in at least one of the possible outcome situations. And this "sum of all universes" theory is but ONE potential theory that could potentially lead to the same conclusion. 45:11 - (Dawkins)It is amazing how people can be entirely logical about [...] forming a holiday's plan and about how to drive somewhere and how to cook a meal, and yet, when it comes to religion, all logic suddenly goes out of the window. It's a startling example of the power of religion, to sap the human intellect. (me) It is amazing how people can be entirely religious about logic and evidence and the such, and yet, when it comes to science, the very idea of religiosity suddenly goes out of the window. It's a startling example of the power of logic, to sap human faith.
Have downloaded Windows Media and Flip4 and STILL can't play the interview. This is very frustrating.
is there no way you can have a download like for those of us cant hear it ??