“We hand over to physicists when we go from virtually nothing to absolutely nothing...” 😂😂😂

I'm sorry, I was too distracted by Dawkin's awesome tie.

As a biologist, Dawkins deals with the consequences of religious thinking more directly - and it can impact the way biology is taught in schools. In contrast, every discovery that Brian Green makes can be explained away by the religious as just more evidence of God's ultimate mystery. Evolution isn't like that -- it's a much greater threat to the religious world view. That's partly why Brian Greene can afford to be nonchalant about God issues, whereas Dawkins cannot.

These 2 have had several discussions you can find online, I would recommend checking them out! So intriguing and eye opening! Love listening to them

Wow...better title for this clip. "Perfect example of an informed agnostic meets a perfect example of an informed anti-theist then proceed to agree on everything, while demonstrating how different personalities approach the same problems"

This dude actually *does* have awesome ties

Sending good energy to everybody!

Very interesting. He respects the nothingness of origin while a theist respects the origin somethingthness. Very profound and I very much like his way of explaining it

I like this Brian Green guy. It's the first time I even hear about him

question: how can the original program date be after the date you published this?

Thanking god for sparing you in a natural disaster is like sending a thank you note to a serial killer for stabbing the family next door.

A cell trying to explain the whole universe.

Just think for a moment : Stars have died so that we could live.

There is a request to Professor Brian Greene that could you please deliver a lecture on the Mathematics of General Theory of Relativity...

Both of these gentlemen are treasures

Brilliantly explained by both

@1:07, Green's shot out to Pascal's Wager made me chuckle as well.

Here's a proof that the more intelligent a person is the better humor they have.

i love this man so much i don’t want him to grow older anymore :(

Thanks for the video.

Brian is beyond hilarious!

His tie is amazing

I hope in the future there are no anti-theist anymore, why would someone be called as an "anti" to something that doesn't even exist. the theist should be called as an anti-logic or anti-reality.

One thing that many people trip over, is that they believe that biological evolution is purely random, it's not. Just like we have laws of nature, laws of physics, laws of chemistry, we also have laws of biology and reproduction and evolution. Evolution occurs through natural selection and other laws, it's not purely random. So when the universe came into being, and all of these laws were inherent in it, so were the laws of biology and evolution.

I really like discussions like this - between great thinkers like these two.

I truly think this question boils down to what is the character of God. If you think God would theoretically be harsh and uncaring then it is certainly better to think that he doesn't exist. But if you approach the question with the notion that God deeply loves his creation, it becomes easy to think of the world and universe as something he's laid out for humans to discover bits of himself as Greene describes. Both are plausible but it certainly doesn't hurt man to believe that we are not the smartest in the universe.

I agree guys, his tie is awesome

It kind of bothers me how Richard says no so firmly, not 'I don't THINK so.' He's so certain about something NOBODY is certain about. That's why it's called faith and belief.

i like the dawkins tie

if it's about power , he's an egyptian

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Just love listening to scholars spitting out their intellect.

Wait a minute. This was posted Dec 16 2013, and original program date was Sept 24, 2014. Does the World Science Festival have working time travel technology?

I think it is entirely possible we live in a simulated universe created by "deistic" god who started it all, and maybe observes stuff without interfering... but that view really does not explain anything, because then we have an entire "outside" universe to account for and explain.

Two of my favorite human beings. I also remember Hitch another fave, dead now, poor guy, although he's not aware of it

If the possibility that no god occurred, then it's any real god's obligation to dispel such fallacies in a bid to remain relevant, or remain silent and affirm its lack of existence. What matters isn't any god's lack of existence, but lack of relevance. Irrelevant gods are inconsequential.

Brian Greene likes to play with fire 🤣

"Awareness is known by awareness alone," is the sole irreducible axiom of reality. To put forth a syllable to refute it is to concede...

Bless them both.

2:45 The first life, at least what we believe was the first life, was itself incredibly complex.

Anybody who doesn't believe in evolution should at a minimum take a paleontology course at a university and learn about the evolution of more complex animals from less complex animals over time. It's all in the fossil record, including transition animals which explain how one species evolved into another. Once you complete that paleontology course, you will feel quite amazed that you ever argued that evolution is false. If you are afraid that it will contradict what you have been taught (e.g. the Bible) from the time you could first understand words, don't be. It's not scary, it's enlightening.

What Dawkins is saying at the end is even if there is a deistic god who laid the fundamental laws of the universe and withdrew, he himself would need an explanation.Implying evolution. "Who watches the watcher"

Great conversation between two intelligent men.

Brian Greene is an amazing speaker.

Greene: Asking Dawkins whether God exists Dawkins: *Jotaro kujo's theme playing*

As always Dawkins making some great points there! If only people were more like him... that would be such an amazing planet!

There is no evidence to prove (or even _suggest_ ) that any God exists. And as time progresses, and we learn more about the natural world with science, Gods existence is only seeming less and less likely.

Greene`s intro argumentations are absolutely top!

The religious god or deity is waaayyyy too simple. We as humans find it too easy to over simplify things that are very complex

😂brain greene should star in a sitcom

Interesting how one of the smartest people on the planet are trying to explain in different ways as simple and logical as possible their views but very few will change their mind. It's very difficult to undo it.

Tieodicy: the theological question of how a God assumed to be almighty and good could allow that thing around Dawkins' neck to happen.

That was a wonderful question in the begining 😂😂😂

When think deeply on the universe we realize that we can't deny the existence of some intelligent, conscious and powerful thing.

TWO OF MY FAVS

"Existence is one not wanting to be alone." - Wald Wassermann , Physicist Theoretical Physics & Cosmology, Institute of Theoretical Physics (1972)

I think the problem with the so-called God is most think of "Him" as being a "Being" and having a personality and human behaviour characteristics. Wouldn't it be why both parties disagree on "His" existence?

With respect , have you ever seen someone who’s not like anybody else.

I love the way Brain put it tbh.

If I was a creator of a universe, I would want all my creatures to be able to create their own universes, and not have to re-lie on me for anything.

Is the moon really there when no one is looking at it? Duh

Does god exist shouldn't be the question. The real question should be if there is a god and he allows all the pain and suffering to happen why should we praise him.

I was raised a Christian as a child, but as a grown man, I really like Dawkins and his lectures. I find him interesting

Music unnecessary.

Just do the very best you can towards the human race and respect and look after your earth surely that is all we can do. Forget any theories or religion s. If we spent more time doing the deed then wondering ..the world would be a kinder and better place.

Now I know where they cherry picked the design video and didn't show the whole statement.

most people are not capable of understanding what Dawkins says, in a way,... iam one of them,... but I agree with him totally, ....religion is an insult to human intelligence.

"If those laws were cunningly designed, cunningly crafted... If the deistic God thought that all through..and setup all physics law.. and Then He would have to be damn Clever".. this is a good sentence from Dawkins that i am sure both extreme sides [theist vs atheist] surely agree :)

Brian greene is my favourite guy

Does God "The perfect way exist?" Only for those who want.

Good discussion.

Basically he is saying if you put God in the equation then he is of less importance. So sad

Does Santa Claus exist? That's the real question.

Touched a nerve..."the physicist to ends all the physicists..."A superior race would be all that and he knows it.

Just a question, if there’s laws control all the universe, who set those laws ?

Richard the guy who rediscovered the word meme

This is worthy of Saturday Night Live.

It also stimulates the question ad absurdium that if God created everything who / what created god. If the answer is god is eternal then why not miss out the middle bit and just have the universe as eternal.

simple to complex is mis-leading, even a single cell has proteins, lipids, plasma, DNA, other chemicals, not that simple.

"he would have to be damn clever" don't most people believe in an omniscient god. So he would be even more than "damn clever"

As a biologist Richard Dawkins never mentions Ernst Haeckel, I wonder why?

From nothing nothing comes, from nothing designed, no design comes.

I love his tie! :) :)

The only reason I find scientific talks like this stimulating is because there is optimism, above all open mindedness and willingness to consider a possibility and maybe even to test it out and to try it out but once having seen it for what it really is, if found to be wrong to have the humility to change one's mind and to change one's opinion and above all to change one's ways and to change one's attitude to that possibility there and then, and to discourage and to dissuade people from going in that direction and if found to be right to encourage and to persuade and if necessary even plead with people to go in that direction, both of which is being in the character and in the nature of one who believes in and one who is endowed with the power of critical thinking and is critical minded with a scientific mindset and a scientific temperament which constitutes the foundation and the backbone of a scientific framework. But when Dawkins means that prodigious complexity can emerge even from great simplicity it gives me hope since it means neither is nothing ever really nothing nor is everything ever really everything, the latter meaning there is no limit to the possibility of growth and of self-improvement , self-betterment which is what infuses me with hope. I am not and I do not claim to be Mr. know-it-all and I do not want to be Mr. know-it-all. But my attitude is, neither is what I know really nothing, nor is what I know really everything, and neither is what I do not know, which BTW always exceeds what I do know, really nothing, nor is what I do not know really everything. There is so precious little we know about anything much more so anybody, even ourselves to begin with, yet we are certainly hot-headed all the time. If I made the audacious claim that I know you, I know all there is to know about you, your past, your present and your future, just out of sheer courtesy and out of a sense of civility and modesty you may condescend and stoop to agree with me and maybe even nod your head in acknowledgement, but on the inside you will defiantly hold and maintain and rightly so that I know absolutely nothing about you, and will be happy to dismiss me and to think of me as nothing more than an arrogant and a presumptuous fool/idiot.

i read this as brian dawkins talks to richard greene - i have to admit that i did think it was odd that the hall of fame eagles safety would be talking to the 50s tv Robin Hood about god

When I am homeless in the wet and cold, and when my life seems more then I can hold, where can I turn to ease my plight, I’m freezing still, no hope in sight, yet still there’s evolution…..all that’s left for me…

2:00 - 2:30 first time Richard Dawkins ever made me laugh.. lol

Haast's eagle hunting Moa on the tie, thats epic

y es más, a veces siento que a mi me han dado y bien de trompadas realmente más por las redes que a este señor se supo una vez le trompearon.

That which does not have beginning must be for something that’s dependant to exist.

Brother asked a very good question

They work off well with each other. Sort of like Laurel and Hardy.Brilliant coupling of 2 Brilliant minds !!!!

The english accent is so nice lol

I’ve always had a problem with news stories where a tragedy survivor says god was looking out for them and ‘praise be Jesus’ - 244 others died, including 18 children - but it’s a miracle…they survived so must be god - I watch those stories with my mouth agape.

I'm not sure that Dawkins foresaw what was about to descend on his head until Brian Greene asked him......." What do you think of that view....".

GOD CALLS THOSE THINGS THAT ARE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE.

Brian Greene, we must meet someday Professor.

Doubt, which comes later, is weaker than certainty. But to have infinite doubts make madness becomes infinity because nothing has become a certainty. Is that wrong?

'I' believed in God when I really needed a Superhero to save me. Oh God. Please make the bad situation go away.

As Professor John Lennox says whenever I ask these atheists how you came into existence, they say ''mindless unguided process...'' It astonishes me that these so called rationalists could make such an unrational statement...