Richard Dawkins – The Enemies of Reason
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Loading ...July 21, 2008 by mike
In this documentary for the UK’s Channel 4, Professor Richard Dawkins highlights some of the achievements of the Scientific Method and describes science’s achievements as freeing “most of us” from superstition and dogma.
He shows several double-blind experiments including one in which 20 random people are all given Capricorn’s daily horoscope and being asked it it applies to them. The result was that the one actual Capricorn in the group didn’t, but many of the others did. Richard Dawkins then takes us on a journey to astronomy, the scientific study of the universe and expresses frustration that over 50% of the UK still believe in the paranormal. Professor Dawkins visits a Tarot card
reader at a psychic faire (it’s worth watching the documentary just for this :p) and performs an experiment with some “well-meaning” (but yet, deluded) water dowsers.
The Enemies of Reason – Part 1
The Enemies of Reason – Part 2
Sources:
http://www.richarddawkins.net/
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/E/enemies_of_reason/
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How can one fight a process which requires no effort, as belief without evidence charaterizes itself, it is as powerful as indifference in nature. Stupidity is this indiffernce to understanding, effortless is its holygrail. There are many people in our busy world who literally do not have time to think about anything other than the means of their own material welfare, what time is left to their own personal use in applying it to the wonders of being and being in the world must deliver on demand, belief without evidence.