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The Purpose of Purpose - Richard Dawkins

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During Richard Dawkins' American tour in March 2009, he gave a talk titled "The Purpose of Purpose". I travelled with Richard to these cities and filmed the talks, which I've edited together here. The content of the talk remains intact, while the editing moves between the different locations and Richard's Keynote presentation.

There were Q&A sessions after each talk, which I plan on uploading soon.

- Josh Timonen
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See more about Richard Dawkins' upcoming book "The Greatest Show on Earth" here:
http://richarddawkins.net/thegreatestshowonearth

This talk was given in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Filmed at:
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Oklahoma - Norman, Oklahoma
Holland Performing Arts Center - Omaha, Nebraska

Introductions by:
PZ Myers - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barry Weaver - Norman, Oklahoma
Richard Holland - Omaha, Nebraska

Filmed and Edited by Josh Timonen
Shot on Red One #4809

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The Purpose of Purpose - Richard Dawkins

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  • Oh yes, ...

    Oh yes, evolutionists do claim that humans are descendant from apes - they even show artists impressions of the so-called stages from a monkey on all fours .. gradually standing up to become an 'ape-man' .. then human. They say each stage was beneficial and superior to the previous. Yet, monkeys and apes still exist - however, no superior ape-man is to be found. If nothing happens in 7,000 years .. what exactly is supposed to be going on? If evolution is a simple mechanism .. explain it!

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  • It's interesting ...

    It's interesting how nobody here who claims to believe Dawkins can provide any evidence or references to where evolution has occured. Either by fossil evidence or laboratory experiments or by events as observed in today's real world. This would be necessary to uphold the theory scientifically. Let's have some solid established proof - not guesswork. Any takers?

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  • Everyone has read ...

    Everyone has read Dawkins profile on Wikipedia - you're very slow if you've only recently looked it up. We already know this, it's not new information. Dawkins has not studied biology and has no formal qualifications in biology - he is not a biologist. He has studied zoology and makes claims for an evolutionary process which are unsubstantiated through lack of evidence.

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  • You sir are a ...

    You sir are a retard. Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford... He studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was tutored by Nobel Prize-winning ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, graduating in 1962. Really, how does it feel to be wrong? And to feel like you're retarded.

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  • God intended for ...

    God intended for man to evolve? So for thousands upon thousands of years he sat with his arms crossed watching humans live brutal short lives then finally decided to make the bible after plenty of other religions were around before it? LOL. Gravity is a theory too, by the way.

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