The Poetry of Reality is hosted by world renowned truth-teller, evolutionary biologist and best-selling author, Professor Richard Dawkins. He has been celebrated globally for his honest critique of religion and tradition and his push for critical thinking. His books include The Ancestor’s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil’s Chaplain, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Magic of Reality, his two-part autobiogr ...
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The Poetry of Reality is hosted by world renowned truth-teller, evolutionary biologist and best-selling author, Professor Richard Dawkins. He has been celebrated globally for his honest critique of religion and tradition and his push for critical thinking. His books include The Ancestor’s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil’s Chaplain, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Magic of Reality, his two-part autobiogr ...
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Richard Dawkins and Ian McEwan talk about Religion, Science, Truth and American Christianity
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Ian McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. This is a discussion between Ian McEwan and Richard Dawkins on religion, science, and truth. -------------------------------------------- Join Substack: https://richarddawkins.substack.com/ Subscribe to Poetry of Reality Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwfdgHA_R9fzr1L0_hxdVw Follow: http…
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Richard Dawkins and Ian McEwan talk about Religion, Science, Truth and American Christianity
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Ian McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. This is a discussion between Ian McEwan and Richard Dawkins on religion, science, and truth. -------------------------------------------- Join Substack: https://richarddawkins.substack.com/ Subscribe to Poetry of Reality Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwfdgHA_R9fzr1L0_hxdVw Follow: http…
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Do Primates Kill Each Other? Richard Dawkins talks to ethologist Frans de Waal
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Richard Dawkins talks to ethologist Frans de Waal about animal behaviour and whether it is truly altruistic.Richard Dawkins
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Do Primates Kill Each Other? Richard Dawkins talks to ethologist Frans de Waal
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Richard Dawkins talks to ethologist Frans de Waal about animal behaviour and whether it is truly altruistic.The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive
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Religious Abuse Ruins Children’s Psychology | Richard Dawkins Talks to Psychologist
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Richard Dawkins talks to Jill Mytton about religious cults and the psychological issues raised by being brought up in them. -------------------------------------------- Join Substack: https://richarddawkins.substack.com/ Subscribe to Poetry of Reality Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwfdgHA_R9fzr1L0_hxdVw Follow: Twitter: https://twitter…
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Religious Abuse Ruins Children’s Psychology | Richard Dawkins Talks to Psychologist
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Richard Dawkins talks to Jill Mytton about religious cults and the psychological issues raised by being brought up in them.The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive
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Why Is Darwin’s Idea So Revolutionary? Richard Dawkins Lecture on Natural Selection and More
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Is Genetic Inheritance Like Mixing Red and Blue to Get Purple? What Is Natural Selection, and How Does It Create Diverse Life? In this lecture, Richard Dawkins discusses natural selection, Darwinism, and more.Richard Dawkins
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Why Is Darwin’s Idea So Revolutionary? Richard Dawkins Lecture on Natural Selection and More
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Is Genetic Inheritance Like Mixing Red and Blue to Get Purple? What Is Natural Selection, and How Does It Create Diverse Life? In this lecture, Richard Dawkins discusses natural selection, Darwinism, and more.The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive
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Is Science Compatible with Christianity? Richard Dawkins talks to Adrian Hawkes
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Is Science Compatible with Christianity? Richard Dawkins talks to Adrian Hawkes
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In this episode, Richard Dawkins talks to Adrian Hawkes about science, education, Christianity, and more. ---------------------- Tickets available at https://richarddawkinstour.com/ I shall be spending the whole of September, and the first week of October, in North America, speaking in ten different cities from Dallas to Vancouver. I am 83 years ol…
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Is Homeopathy a Placebo? | Richard Dawkins Questions Homeopath
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Tickets available at https://richarddawkinstour.com/ I shall be spending the whole of September, and the first week of October, in North America, speaking in ten different cities from Dallas to Vancouver. I am 83 years old, and travel is more irksome than it was. The maxim, “Quit while you’re ahead” has recently received a welcome boost, and I anti…
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Is Homeopathy a Placebo? | Richard Dawkins Questions Homeopath
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In this episode, Richard Dawkins has a conversation with Dr. Peter Fisher, who is a physician and homeopath. They discuss the efficacy of Homeopath, controversy regarding funding homeopathy, and the scientific (or non scientific) nature of the field.The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive
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Evolutionary Biologist Reacts to Sperm Bank | Richard Dawkins Visits a Sperm Bank
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In this episode, Richard Dawkins is taken on a tour of a sperm bank, where he tries to understand its workings while sharing interesting evolutionary explanations.The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive
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Evolutionary Biologist Reacts to Sperm Bank | Richard Dawkins Visits a Sperm Bank
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Tickets available at https://richarddawkinstour.com/ I shall be spending the whole of September, and the first week of October, in North America, speaking in ten different cities from Dallas to Vancouver. I am 83 years old, and travel is more irksome than it was. The maxim, “Quit while you’re ahead” has recently received a welcome boost, and I anti…
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How is the "Gay Gene" alive? Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins Explains
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How is the "Gay Gene" alive? Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins Explains
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Richard Dawkins and Richard Dawkins AI answer questions about the future!
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Richard Dawkins is back with Taryn Southern to answer your questions now with an AI Assistant, this time in a physical studio in the UK. Stay tuned for Richard’s insightful answers, and to see if the AI can compare!Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins and Richard Dawkins AI answer questions about the future!
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Richard Dawkins is back with Taryn Southern to answer your questions now with an AI Assistant, this time in a physical studio in the UK. Stay tuned for Richard’s insightful answers, and to see if the AI can compare!The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive
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Richard Dawkins Answers Questions About Evolution, Life, and Religion
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Richard Dawkins Answers Questions About Evolution, Life, and Religion
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Richard Dawkins is back with Taryn Southern to answer your questions, this time in a physical studio in the UK. Taryn asks Richard questions from our audience about evolution, evolutionary biology, and more. Stay tuned for Richard’s insightful answers.The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive
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Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins Discuss Evolution, Religion, and More
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I first encountered Lawrence Krauss sometime in the early 2000s at a conference. I had just given my lecture and was answering questions when a rather small man with a loud voice and a highly articulate manner stood up and began berating me in what I initially thought was an aggressive manner. It turned out he wasn’t being aggressive; rather, his c…
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Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins Discuss Evolution, Religion, and More
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I first encountered Lawrence Krauss sometime in the early 2000s at a conference. I had just given my lecture and was answering questions when a rather small man with a loud voice and a highly articulate manner stood up and began berating me in what I initially thought was an aggressive manner. It turned out he wasn’t being aggressive; rather, his c…
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Richard Dawkins Confronts a Christian Extremist!
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The Reverend Michael Bray is a leading advocate of murdering abortion doctors. He also takes biblical literalism to the extreme of advocating the death penalty for adultery and homosexuality. His friend and coconspirator, the Reverend Paul Hill, was executed for murdering an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. Bray strongly defends Hill’s action and…
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Richard Dawkins Confronts a Christian Extremist!
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The Reverend Michael Bray is a leading advocate of murdering abortion doctors. He also takes biblical literalism to the extreme of advocating the death penalty for adultery and homosexuality. His friend and coconspirator, the Reverend Paul Hill, was executed for murdering an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. Bray strongly defends Hill’s action and…
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Richard Dawkins & Steven Pinker Discuss The Evolution Of Pain, Fear & Language
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There’s a kind of conventional wisdom among broadcasters that an interview has to be adversarial. The interviewer must probe in a critical kind of way. You must have arguments. This was brought home to me some years ago when I had a conversation on stage in London, a very large audience with Steven Pinker, and it went very well. The audience liked …
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Richard Dawkins & Steven Pinker Discuss The Evolution Of Pain, Fear & Language
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There’s a kind of conventional wisdom among broadcasters that an interview has to be adversarial. The interviewer must probe in a critical kind of way. You must have arguments. This was brought home to me some years ago when I had a conversation on stage in London, a very large audience with Steven Pinker, and it went very well. The audience liked …
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Kathleen Stock and Richard Dawkins Question Modern Gender Identity
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The savage missiles hurled at Kathleen Stock in the stocks of Sussex University gives the lie to the pretense that her tormentors should be pitied as an oppressed minority who just want to peacefully get on with their life. I’ve long admired her gentle courage in the face of vicious bullying. When we finally met at the Dissident Dialogues Conferenc…
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Kathleen Stock and Richard Dawkins Question Modern Gender Identity
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The savage missiles hurled at Kathleen Stock in the stocks of Sussex University gives the lie to the pretense that her tormentors should be pitied as an oppressed minority who just want to peacefully get on with their life. I’ve long admired her gentle courage in the face of vicious bullying. When we finally met at the Dissident Dialogues Conferenc…
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Derren Brown Exposes Fraudulent "Psychics" with Richard Dawkins
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Derren Brown is one of our leading conjurers, specializing in mentalism, the illusion of reading people’s minds. I interviewed him for my Channel 4 TV documentary, Enemies of Reason. We talked about cold reading and how the technique is used by frauds who pretend to communicate with the dead, as well as by honest conjurers. Derren himself is an hon…
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Derren Brown Exposes Fraudulent "Psychics" with Richard Dawkins
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Derren Brown is one of our leading conjurers, specializing in mentalism, the illusion of reading people’s minds. I interviewed him for my Channel 4 TV documentary, Enemies of Reason. We talked about cold reading and how the technique is used by frauds who pretend to communicate with the dead, as well as by honest conjurers. Derren himself is an hon…
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Richard Baffled by ‘Spiritual Environmentalists’ Word Salad
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Satish Kumar was one of those I interviewed for my Channel 4 documentary, ‘Enemies of Reason.’ He began by telling a nice story about Bertrand Russell, whom he met as a young man and who supported him. We moved on to holism, which seemed harmless enough, but as the interview wore on, he became more and more mystical, culminating in the treeness of …
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Richard Baffled by ‘Spiritual Environmentalists’ Word Salad
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Satish Kumar was one of those I interviewed for my Channel 4 documentary, ‘Enemies of Reason.’ He began by telling a nice story about Bertrand Russell, whom he met as a young man and who supported him. We moved on to holism, which seemed harmless enough, but as the interview wore on, he became more and more mystical, culminating in the treeness of …
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John McWhorter and Richard Dawkins talk about Linguistics and Woke Racism
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I have long wanted to meet John McWhorter. He’s an extremely well-known public intellectual and opinion leader who, in my opinion, always talks sense. I have this rather eccentric idea that before becoming a public intellectual, you need to earn your credentials by having something important and interesting to be intellectual about, and John McWhor…
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