Richard Dawkins Compares Creationism to Holocaust Denial Video
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/07/Richard_Dawkins_The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins uses denial of the Holocaust as an analogy for the battle against the theory of evolution being waged in public schools by creationists.
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Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins talks about his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: Evidence for Evolution. This program was recorded in collaboration with Berkeley Arts and Letters, on October 7, 2009.
Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion created a storm of controversy over the question of God's existence. Now, in the Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins presents a stunning counterattack against advocates of "Intelligent Design" that explains the evidence for evolution while keeping an eye trained on the absurdities of the creationist argument.
More than an argument of his own, it's a thrilling tour into our distant past and into the interstices of life on earth. Taking us through the case for evolution step-by-step, Dawkins looks at DNA, selective breeding, anatomical similarities, molecular family trees, geography, time, fossils, vestiges and imperfections, human evolution, and the formula for a strong scientific theory.
Dawkins' trademark wit and ferocity is joined by an infectious passion for the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, proving along the way that the mechanisms of the natural world are more miraculous -- a "greater show" -- than any creation story generated by any religion on earth. - Berkeley Arts and Letters
Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology.
He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and most recently, The Greatsest Show on Earth.
Professor Dawkins's awards have included the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1989), the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1990), The International Cosmos Prize (1997) and the Kistler Prize (2001). He has Honorary Doctorates in both literature and science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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philster61: Im not sure what research materials you used but Id seriously rethink them if you believe the Russians were there before they actually were there. The Russians didnt get anywhere near Auschwitz until january 1945. Bearing in mind that the British had had recon photos from much earlier showing the camp and the furnaces in operation. I mentioned wiki as its the quickest easiest reference that I can suggest here.There are thousands of other more serious and detailed references
philster61: @realrasmckhaile I have video that I shot myself of the gas chamber at Auschwitz 1. I will try to post it if I can find a firewire cable somewhere.
realrasmckhaile: @philster The delousing facilities a few hundred feet from the alleged gas chamber has an intense color of Prussian blue pigment which is a well-known, synthetic dye made by reacting hydrocyanic acid with iron oxide in red clay bricks. The alleged gas chamber a few hundred feet away at Kremas 2 and 3, built with the same brick shows absolutely NO trace of blue staining anywhere--even in the cellar room remains where supposedly cyanide was used on a vast scale for mass murder.
realrasmckhaile: @philster It was a terrible sight at Belsen. There is a famous photo of a bulldozer used to push bodies into a mass grave, what it doesn't show is that the driver was a British soldier. Belsen was the result of allied bombing of the German infrastructure. After the Russians seized Auschwitz they didn't allow anyone near there for a decade giving them ample time to reconstruct the alleged homicidal gas chamber. No one not even the exterminationist dispute the fact that the Russians did this.
realrasmckhaile: @philster I don't have videos but I have a few photos myself. The photos you see on my channel is the Auschwitz camp money that was paid to the inmates which they would use to purchase food in the canteen, extra toiletries etc. I also have photos of delousing facilities made for trains to delouse and entire car of typhus. These hygienic facilities contradicts the contention that there was a general plan to exterminate jews.
philster61: @realrasmckhaile I know the photo/film you mean. There could be a clue is that the driver is wearing a beret. This was common for British soldiers and my father also had a regimental beret . You are convinced the Russians built the camp after WW2? Did you see my earlier post about the recon photos taken before 1945 by the British? And also there are photos of Himmler visiting Birkenau during its construction.
realrasmckhaile: @philster What would recon photos prove? Philster, the Russians admitted they reconstructed the gas chamber. This is not some 'denier' allegation or acusation. Even historians who believe a holocaust happened do not deny this fact.
realrasmckhaile: @Philster The definitive proof that there was no extermination policy in Auschwitz is Himmler himself. His December 28, 1942 order called for, "the death rate in the camps to be reduced at all costs." On January 20, 1943, chief inspector of the camps, Richard Glucks, answered Himmler, "Every means will be used to lower the death rates."The death rate had indeed been reduced from 8.5% in July 1942 to 2.8% in June 1943. (Source, Nuremberg Trial Document No. 1523.)
realrasmckhaile: @philster Soldiers, officers and functionaries, were sentenced to death for the murder of a single jewish man or woman.The SS arrested Buchenwald Commandant, Karl Koch in 1943 for the mistreatment of prisoners. Koch was found guilty and shot. How could anyone be shot for mistreating a hated people who were eventually to be killed? Even Elie Weasel claimed to have received medical care when he broke his foot. What kind of extermination policy gives medical care to people they want to kill?
Paulwhoisvegan: So Richard, you were laughing at us Americans because we couldn't get a decent education on evolution. Now you are going through the same thing in Europe, ha ha ha to you!
philster61: Recon photos are dated in august 1944. Long before the Russians were anywhere near there. Can you name these historians?
ShadowofProclimaton: yes, lets sit around loling rahter than trying to rectify this problem. That'll get alot done.
ClumsyRoot: I'm trying to imagine how willfully ignorant a person has to be to make such a contention....
Meskiagkasher: @realrasmckhaile : I would really like to invite you to visit germany.
AirThief: forgive me i didnt want to span down further, but i see 1944 and russion, ww2 started in 1940 but i guess they dont teach that.
AirThief: your playin his game, stop. he knows it happened, you know it happened. he is what we call a TROLL. a person who goes in and just denies everything. comes up with his own truth, i find it hilarious. but thats what he is.. a troll.
philster61: Im acknowledging the impossibility of the Russians having been there in Auschwtiz in 1944 to realrasmckhaile. We have been discussing various documents. Read his posts and you will see what Im answering to.
realrasmckhaile: @philster There were no Nazi homicidal 'gas chambers'. The 'reconstruction' by the Russians was in reality a morgue. I never implied the Russians were there in 1944. The Russians came upon a morgue and made it into a 'gas chamber' they didn't even bother to connect the chimney to the alleged 'gas chamber'. The alleged 'gas chamber' in Birkenau was a morgue with no ventilation or circulation apparatus to ventilate the HCN after the gassing or to circulate the HCN for a gassing.
realrasmckhaile: @philster You said you stood infornt of the gas chamber. Was it the Russian reconstruction in Auschwitz you stood in front of or was it the ruins of Birkenau?
philster61: @realrasmckhaile.I went to both. Auschwitz 1 gas chamber and the ruins in Birkenau.
philster61: @realrasmckhaile. By the time the Russians got there it had long full filled its use as a gas chamber. There were gas chambers and crematoriums at Birkenau on the far side of the camp. The evidence for their use as murder facilities is more than overwhelming.
dafyddoe: It started in 1939.
realrasmckhaile: @philster I've studied the holocaust for over 10 years. I once believed the holocaust happened. The "proof" of the existence of the gas chambers in Auscwitz are testimonies from eyewitnesses who were never sross examined and whose truthfulness is upheld a priori by exterminationists. The facilities shown to us by the Auschwitz tour guides could not have been gas chambers. You are only complicating the subject at hand. The Russians RECONSTRUCTED the morgue into a gas chamber.
realrasmckhaile: @philster The defence of many exterminationists is similar to what you are purport: "the evidence is overwhelming" and "there are tons of documents" but at the same time they fail to produce a scintilla of the "overwhelming evidence" or a single document. The gas chamber shown to us by the Auschwitz tour guides are Russian made, the ruins of Birkenau was a morgue converted into a air raid shelter the cause of the Fuhrer's Emergency Air Raid Program "Luftschutz Fuhrer Sofort Programm."
philster61: @realrasmckhaile. What purpose would the Russians have served by doing that? I have been studying the history of WW2 for nearly 20 years. Why if you have been studying it for 10 years have you reached the conclusion that it didnt happen?
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