ROCHARD DAWKINS HOW TO
The How To Academy presents a meeting between Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker to discuss his book Rationality. 13th October 2022, 07:15 pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue. Yesterday, Richard Dawkins tweeted a request to his followers, asking them to sign on to a declaration by UK-based anti-transgender advocacy group the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC). Richard Dawkins Meets Steven Pinker Live on Stage in London. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference. Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The Greatest Show on Earth, and his latest Outgrowing God.
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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