How's THIS for an answer from Dawkins?

Question

I believe this is called the two-step.....

Have any comments? ALL are welcome!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zaKryi3605g&mode=related&search=

The editing cut was at DAWKINS' request 'cause he couldn't think fast enough....LOL! (or did ya miss him asking to STOP)???

Of COURSE they did super......we need to stump Dawkins.....how ELSE could we EVER prove GOD is greater than him? yer funny!

injanier....took him a whole YEAR to come up with THAT explanation, and THAT'S the best he's got? Pitiful!!

Ga; It's not supposed to BE complicated to this GREAT mastermind that so many follow! I'm sorry you couldn't see him reaching and grasping at straws to try to SOUND scientific and intelligent, while he says your cousins (NOT MINE are FISH)!!!

zzz, If you think that Dawkins theology makes for good sound reasoning, more power to ya, Honey! As for Christians, I don't think you have the foggiest clue what we believe...do we think God did it all, you betcha.....but do we compare the Bible facts with science? Absolutely! And so do the most dependable scientific minds! email me for a listing....

Eleventy...He's certainly THE flavour of the month....and BTW....how about giving some examples.......?

bad squirrel
what "letter" are you referring to? I make NO mention of any letter??? and if Dawkins is as up to snuff on his "scientific evidence" as he claims be, he should have had at least ONE single example ready to give. I see NOTHING stupid with the question; now the ANSWER however, is ridiculous!!

Answer 1

He never answered the question about the addition to the genome.
You can see, he has no answer, so he changes the subject.
He who lives by science dies by science. I guess.

Answer 2

It's called an edit. Anything at all could have happened between the question and the answer. That answer was definitely not directed at that question. I bet if you look hard enough you could get a video of him saying "all your base is belong to us".

Also, I do agree with squirrel. I paused the video to try to parse the question myself and it sounds like what they want is to see a correlation between a lengthened strand of DNA and physical features - as in "see, between these two generations of fruit fly the DNA got longer and we can see the direct effect of that in this third eye". It just doesn't work like that but few people would be so direct as to say "that's a stupid question". The only time I've actually seen Dawkins on camera he was pretty polite.

Answer 3

This thing AGAIN?

It's a hoax - the footage is indeed edited. Dawkins has explained what happened - a bunch of creationists faked their way to an interview by lying to him, as when they asked that stupid question he realised he'd been lied to.

He went on to answer the question - which is a ridiculous one and shouldn't 'stump' anyone with an education. They edited the footage to produce this petty fake.

CD

I noticed I've been thumbsdowned. Not that it matters, but to whomever did it: everything I have said is true and verifiable. Why not check the information before giving the tetchy response?

Answer 4

That was funny. There have been examples of what is being asked for. I wonder why Dawkins couldn't give any.

You know he's not THE spokesperson for evolution and atheism right?

EDIT: SuperAtheist is correct. I've heard Dawkins say that before but I didn't know this was the clip.

Answer 5

Is that any different from when Christians asked about the old testament? Only for them to give answers like "they are reading the wrong bible" "you twisted that scripture to suit you" and many more.

This is the best creationist can do? Manipulate something to make it to suit them. It appears that he was a waiting for the cue for the question to come in. While waiting whomever was behind the camera thought it would funny to roll it as he was waiting then tacked on the question flashed on the screen followed by "now recording". They quickly make it look like he jumped to something else to avoid the question.

Answer 6

What's even funnier is that a Creationist would claim victory simply by posing the question.

Scientists study the natural world. They ask questions then look for answers consistent with the laws of nature.

Creationists don't study anything. They simply ask questions, then make up answers (e.g. "God did it!") because they're too dull, too lazy, and too afraid to seek truth through sound reason.

Answer 7

And here's what Dawkins had to say about that interview:

"When I eventually saw the film a year later, I found that it had been edited to give the false impression that I was incapable of answering the question about information content."

Answer 8

Notice that there's an editing cut.

The question is stupid.

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB102.html

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Send me the letter from Dawkins. I think they edited out part of his answer.

And, I should repeat: the question is stupid. See the above link -- information is added all the time. Asking him to recall a specific mutation (as if they're indexed and he has them on note cards) is ridiculous.
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Did you know that your genome is probably slightly bigger than your parents?

Answer 9

So?... What's your point... Some people believe that you have to think before answering a complicated question...
He explained very well about the evolutionary process. Did you miss that part?

Answer 10

LOL. So freaking what. Shall I post Kirk Cameron sucking on a banana again?

Answer 11

I think his anawer was no, he just didn't say it in those words.

Dawkins has said it wasn't editted badly, but he does say he wasn't prepared for an answer.