Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The God Delusion #1 (Richard Dawkins)

Slightly deviating from topic, here's Richard Dawkins talking about his book The God Delusion in Lynchburg, Virginia (in the U.S.A.).

Professor Dawkins isn't talking about freedom / free culture, but he is talking about truth and evidence based rational enquiry, the impulse to which stems from the same root as the free culture movement; that it is right to know all we can about the universe we live in, and it is not right to fence that knowledge away, be it through the use of goons (legal measures) or memes (religion).

Also, it's just a great talk. Worth your time to watch. Which is 37 minutes for this first part, and 70 minutes for the second part.

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