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Richard Dawkins on Illogical Thinking | StarTalk


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we just admitted together that we are
prisoners of this mystical magical ways
of thinking and or geological ways of
thinking and now you want to so you want
to change the biological directive of
the human mind and how do you do that I
I like to use the phrase consciousness
raising and consciousness raising is so
when I don’t want to be dictatorial and
say there should be a law against
illogical thinking not that fascist I
mean I certainly want to go all the way
with with that I’m with the say I’m
Richard Fineman who said when I when I
look at a rose I see the same beauty as
as a poet or or a painter seasoned and
their rose but I also get poetic
inspiration from the fact that I know
that the color is to attract insects and
that this has come about by natural
selection I feel the same way about
beautiful sunsets I think there’s no
more reproduced image when people want
you to think of God than a sunset with
beams of light coming out and it’s all
done in pure it is it is yes so I – I
deeply appreciate the splendor of a
magnificent sunset with a curtain of
Twilight colors going from you know deep
deep blue to sky blue and the red Sun
but I also know that the surface of the
Sun is 6,000 degrees and there’s
Rayleigh scattering an atmosphere you
have water droplets condensing to make
clouds and where else do you go maybe I
go a little bit further in the direction
of good-natured ridicule of absurd ideas
like astrology like homeopathy but so
you’re defining you’re saying it’s
good-natured but clearly the people who
are who are the on the other side of
your wit and intelligence would are they
saying you’re being good-natured
possibly not I don’t I don’t really care
about that no I mean I feel stupid next
to you now I and I know all this stuff
all right so come on
i I haven’t I – not just the astrologer
that I’m talking to but the for example
the radio audience whatever it is that
are listening in yeah larger because
right you have you have visible
platforms where you share this we both
do and and it’s a the project often
being made to me if you call somebody
Indy an idiot you’re not gonna change
his mind and that’s possibly true but
you may change the minds of a thousand
people listening in
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