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Dan Dennett receives the "Richard Dawkins Award" at the AAI 07 conference in Washington, D.C. Julia Sweeney introduces Richard Dawkins, and Richard Dawkins introduces Dan Dennett.

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On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen.

All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion - some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public’s reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, criticisms and common misrepresentations. They discuss the tough questions about religion that face to world today, and propose new strategies for going forward.

Authors’ Recommended Books: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Breaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennett Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris The End of Faith by Sam Harris God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

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This is the Pinky Show trailer, kind of like a pre-history of The Pinky Show I guess. ~ pinky

Find out more about The Pinky Show at:
http://www.pinkyshow.org/

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Dan Dennett receives the "Richard Dawkins Award" at the AAI 07 conference in Washington, D.C. Julia Sweeney introduces Richard Dawkins, and Richard Dawkins introduces Dan Dennett.

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Visit the AAI website at:
http://atheistalliance.org

See more videos like this at http://richarddawkins.net
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Josh Timonen

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Josh Timonen

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The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science presents Andy Thomson's lecture titled "We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers." This video was taken at the AAI 2007 conference in Washington, D.C. See more videos like this at http://RichardDawkins.net

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The Richard Dawkins Foundation

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Wayne Marsala
Josh Timonen

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Josh Timonen

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See the full 3-hour video at http://groups.myspace.com/Brights

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Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. He has also written for The Nation, Granta, Harper's, The Washington Post, and is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in England, Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He now lives in Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2007. This event took place on August 16, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

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James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing
Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius
Grant." He was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is perhaps best
known for offering $1,000,000 (via the James Randi Educational
Foundation) to anyone who can successfully demonstrate psychic powers
under conditions mutually agreed on by the challenger and himself.
Starting with a $10,000 prize over 25 years ago, no claimant to
psychic powers has ever won the money.

Randi has pursued "psychic" spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of
faith healers, investigated homeopathic water "with a memory," and
generally been a thorn in the sides of those who try to pull the wool
over the public's eyes in the name of the supernatural.

This event took place August 6, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

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This is only a brief clip of a great presentation on Jefferson's ideas and beliefs. For more information: http://www.randi.org/amazingmeeting/

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Part 1.
Richard Dawkins is interviewed by the BBC's Stephen Sackur for News24's HARDtalk.

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Christopher Hitchens, author of "God is Not Great", defends atheism and secularism at the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books debate panel on Religion and Culture. Other panelists include Zachary Karabell (author of "Peace be Upon You") and Jonathan Kirsch (author of "A History of the End of the World"). Debate moderated by Thane Rosenbaum.

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Featured musical performer at the CivilBrights Conference being planned for April 2008.

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http://www.ted.com Here's one of those talks that can change your view of the world forever. Starting with the deceptively simple story of an ant, Dan Dennett unleashes a dazzling sequence of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of "memes" -- a term coined by Richard Dawkins for mental concepts that are literally alive and capable of spreading from brain to brain. On the way, look out for:
+ a powerful one-sentence secret of happiness
+ a compelling insight into terrorists' motivation
+ a chilling view of Islam
And just when you think you know where the talk's heading, it dramatically shifts direction and questions some of western culture's fundamental assumptions.
This. Is. Unmissable.

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Guest host Bill Moyers talks to philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. Dennett is the director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His latest book is “Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”.

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This is first of two highlights compilations documenting statements made by Christopher Hitchens in the debate between him and Chris Hedges on the topic "Is God...Great?", held at King Middle School in Berkeley, California, on May 24, 2007. It is part of a much larger report on the debate to be found at http://www.zombietime.com/hitchens-hedges_debate/ . This video focuses on statements made by Hitchens, and is not intended to be a full and complete recording of the entire evening. If you are interested in seeing the full debate (which lasted over two hours), including everything said by Hedges, you'll have to wait until the event's sponsors (who videotaped the entire thing) makes it available online.

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On April 5, 2007 Dr. Victor Stenger gave a presentation of his book God: The Failed Hypothesis at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada

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On April 5, 2007 Dr. Victor Stenger gave a presentation of his book God: The Failed Hypothesis at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada

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TV Ontario, The Agenda with Steve Paikin featuring Richard Dawkins: Can We Live By Reason Alone? Richard is the author of The God Delusion.

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David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Richard Leakey and Jane Goodall discuss the future of the planet.

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Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. As he puts it, our bodies are made up of 100 trillion little robots, none of them with an individual consciousness. So what makes us feel we have one? Or that we're in control of it? Dennett's hope is to show his audience that "Your consciousness is not quite as marvelous as you may have thought it is." He uses thought experiments and optical illusions to demonstrate to the TED audience that even very big brains are capable of playing tricks on their owners.

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