1. Comment #173162 by Elli on April 30, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Nice. 52 minutes of Dawk.
The lengthy periods of ads are annoying though.

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2. Comment #173173 by barry21 on April 30, 2008 at 1:31 pm

You will never hear me accuse richarddawkins.net of a lack of content! Thanks again.

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3. Comment #173179 by Ragnar0kk on April 30, 2008 at 1:36 pm

I love this site! keep the audio/video coming it helps me get through the day!

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4. Comment #173186 by ThomasB on April 30, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Nice to have RD back in Canada.

Particularly enjoyable was Richard's no-nonsense smack-down of the caller who so lamely presented the "evolution is just another faith" canard.

Alas, the advertisements were difficult to endure.

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5. Comment #173203 by nlewkowitz on April 30, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Those were some of the most ignorant creobots ever...what miserable questions they produced. It was like lobbing a softball for Prof. Dawkins...Well done professor.

Adverts are quite annoying.

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6. Comment #173219 by Jolly Bloger on April 30, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Anyone else having trouble accessing the file?

edit: never mind, it worked.

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7. Comment #173220 by PJG on April 30, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Wouldn't it be nice if, one day, someone came up with a really sensible, original question?

If I hear one more person bring up Hitler, Stalin, "atheism is another faith", "How can anyone be moral without God?" or the f**king bacterial flagellum, I think I will scream.

Richard - you deserve a medal. At the start of your next interview, could you quickly deal with the above questions, just to get them out of the way? If nothing else, it would cut down the number of callers!

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8. Comment #173240 by Cartomancer on April 30, 2008 at 2:33 pm

The previous comments are right, these kinds of shows have a tendency to be very samey and repetitive. I guess that we here at RD.net occasionally lose sight of the fact that most people are not so well acquainted with the old recycled bad arguments - certainly most people who listen to popular radio broadcasts such as this one.

For my own personal gratification I would prefer different questions and discussions on air, but I accept that it is important to raise the consciousness of as many people as possible, so I am happy to forego more esoteric ruminations on public media if the result is a greater diffusion of the basics.

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9. Comment #173241 by Bollwerk on April 30, 2008 at 2:33 pm

I could not bear the slew of ads in that. I swear it was like 20 minutes of Richard and 30 minutes of ads. (felt like that, at least)

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10. Comment #173245 by Zzyx1170 on April 30, 2008 at 2:37 pm

I placed an mp3 of this without advertisements on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/111602137/Richard-Dawkins_Bill-Good-Show.mp3

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11. Comment #173246 by Geodesic17 on April 30, 2008 at 2:38 pm

I will probably skip listening to this.

Having worked in IT before, I know how annoying repetitive stupid questions are.

Someone needs to setup a call center to answer people's questions.

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12. Comment #173248 by SamKiddoGordon on April 30, 2008 at 2:39 pm

I listened to Richard live on monday, the news and ads are part of the regular programming for the morning time slot. I know its repetative, and I enjoyed the smackdowns, but its new and different audiences. I didnt realise that Richard was going to be in Vancouver, or I might have driven the 20 hours to go down from northern ALberta. Its a wasteland up here, no reasonable free thinkers in sight, but all are welcome to come visit.

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13. Comment #173249 by Jolly Bloger on April 30, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Geodesic:

Is there not already a hotline somewhere? CFI perhaps? If not, there should be, and if there is, it should be more widely known. Good idea.

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14. Comment #173253 by Geodesic17 on April 30, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Thanks, Jolly Bloger.

If there are suicide hotlines, there should be hotlines for helping creationists. =)

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15. Comment #173258 by Cartomancer on April 30, 2008 at 2:47 pm

"Hello, and welcome to the Atheists Answer Your Stupid Questions Hotline. Your call is important to us. If you want to spout nonsense about irreducible complexity, press 1. If you have a bee in your bonnet about Hitler and Stalin, press 2. If you think atheism is just another religion, press 3. If you need to bring up that tired old objective source of morality guff, press 4. If you just want to make crude ad hominems at Richard Dawkins until you feel better, press 5. Your call will be charged at normal network rates and may be monitored for staff training purposes. All proceeds go to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science..."

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16. Comment #173259 by Steve Zara on April 30, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Comment #173220 by PJG

If I hear one more person bring up Hitler, Stalin, "atheism is another faith", "How can anyone be moral without God?" or the f**king bacterial flagellum, I think I will scream.

I know what you mean. However, Carto is right, most people don't know that these points are unoriginal. If we want to act as educators (and I do), we have to generally have patience.

I don't have patience with those who try and put forward these kind of questions with arrogance (as we have seen with seeker_of_truth on other threads).

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17. Comment #173261 by Geodesic17 on April 30, 2008 at 2:51 pm

I agree with Steve on this. The questions that arise are usually from lack of knowledge or being given wrong information. There just needs to be a cheat sheet somewhere with how to address these issues. Especially since they become heated. Knowing when someone is willing to learn is important.

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18. Comment #173264 by kurzweilfreak on April 30, 2008 at 2:54 pm

www.talkorigins.org = Evolution answers call-center. :)

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19. Comment #173265 by phatbat on April 30, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Thats good Carto, LOL.

I wish on these radio call-ins they would go back to the caller after the smack down, so we could hear them floundering. They'd probably come back with something like 'yeah...whatever....more like you are.....beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep'

next caller you're on....

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20. Comment #173269 by Geodesic17 on April 30, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Kurzweilfreak,

The call-center would just have to persuade them to read the that site in its entirety.

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21. Comment #173271 by Steve Zara on April 30, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Comment #173264 by kurzweilfreak

It is a superb site.

But, I see a problem. If we get into debates where creationists point us at answersingenesis.org, and we point them at talkorigins.org, we could give a false impression that the situation is balanced.

Perhaps we need to point them at a site that shows a thousand further sites with evidence for evolution.

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22. Comment #173273 by Geodesic17 on April 30, 2008 at 3:03 pm

There needs to be a site for noobs.

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23. Comment #173274 by Corylus on April 30, 2008 at 3:04 pm

ZZyx1170

I placed an mp3 of this without advertisements on RapidShare

Thank you, appreciate it.

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24. Comment #173282 by Friend Giskard on April 30, 2008 at 3:15 pm

So do I.

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25. Comment #173284 by Matt H. on April 30, 2008 at 3:16 pm

If you'll forgive the expression, Richard had the patience of a saint in this interview. There must have been about three Intelligent Design proponents in the Q&A, every question they asked has already been address countless times. As for the raving lunatic screaming about Hitler/socialism/North Korea.... ignorance is bliss for some people, isn't it? You don't need to know anything about evolution to know that everything he said was total rubbish. You only need to study history! Hitler was a Catholic, Stalin set up a Cult of Personality around himself and actually hated Darwinism, and the rulers of North Korea actually see themselves as gods, which is anything BUT atheistic!

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26. Comment #173296 by Ragnar0kk on April 30, 2008 at 3:23 pm

Dawkins was on his game in this interview, well worth the listen (even though he does have to confront some worn out and incredibly unoriginal social memes)

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27. Comment #173303 by sane1 on April 30, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Couldn't get the link to work - Is it just me?

And if you go to the radio station site and find their audio vault, they say they had technical difficulties for the period of time that the RD interview took place...

EDIT: THANKS _ Comment #173245 by Zzyx1170 on April 30, 2008 at 2:37 pm

I placed an mp3 of this without advertisements on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/111602137/Richard-Dawkins_Bill-Good-Show.mp3

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28. Comment #173306 by Podaar on April 30, 2008 at 3:29 pm

Comment #173258 by Cartomancer

Thank you!!!

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29. Comment #173311 by DaysOfClark on April 30, 2008 at 3:33 pm

Cheers for the link Zzyx1170!

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30. Comment #173312 by nag73 on April 30, 2008 at 3:36 pm

I can't get the link to work either

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31. Comment #173323 by SilentMike on April 30, 2008 at 3:56 pm

Well that was fun.

It'd be nice to get some new questions though.

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32. Comment #173325 by ThoughtsonCommonToad on April 30, 2008 at 3:59 pm

I placed an mp3 of this without advertisements on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/111602137/Richard-Dawkins_Bill-Good-Show.mp3

sane1 Thank you that rapidshare link works perfectly, I couldn't get the link to work either.

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33. Comment #173330 by Geodesic17 on April 30, 2008 at 4:11 pm

OK. I'll listen to this later. Thanks for removing the ads.

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34. Comment #173333 by Jolly Bloger on April 30, 2008 at 4:17 pm

I wonder if Richard would be willing to do a Q&A on this site, answering some new (and more intelligent) questions from his fans - things we'd like his opinion on - instead of the usual creationist FAQ.

I loved his immediate and thorough answer to the caller asking about the supposed lack of evidence for evolution.

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35. Comment #173340 by Partisan on April 30, 2008 at 4:32 pm

A very well executed interview from Richard; I don't think anyone who listened would be in any doubt as to who came out on top. Thanks a bunch.

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36. Comment #173348 by wiz5 on April 30, 2008 at 4:44 pm

I agree, it was a really good interview. And Dawkins kept his mellow which just makes him sound more reasonable, thought he was going to loose it towards the end.

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37. Comment #173352 by Wosret on April 30, 2008 at 4:55 pm

It's sad how these guys all think they have such great points to make.

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38. Comment #173353 by Border Collie on April 30, 2008 at 4:55 pm

Although the same old questions/comments are wearing extremely thin, I do greatly admire Richard for his patience, general kindness and good manners to people who call in ... whether they deserve it or not. I couldn't do it for five minutes and he's been doing it for years or decades.

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39. Comment #173355 by SteveO on April 30, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Right on, I missed the last few minutes of this when it was on the air. The ads on CKNW really are hard to endure.

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40. Comment #173356 by bubbaj30 on April 30, 2008 at 4:57 pm

I apologize Mr. dawkins, I didn't realize that we Canadians were that stupid. The same old arguments, nothing original to ask or say. I honestly feel ashamed!

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41. Comment #173372 by The Reverend Dark on April 30, 2008 at 5:17 pm

I wanted to metaphorically reach through the ether and slap that last caller so hard that his eyeballs switched places.

More fallacies than a vibrator shop (okay phallacies) - 'Orrible 'Atchet 'Arry visions of a swift and terrible beating.

Cheers,
The Reverend Shayne Dark

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42. Comment #173377 by JazzGuitar on April 30, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Wow...

All the most common idiotic religious comments in ONE stupifyingly imbicilic caller at the end. In one breath:

He condescends to educate RD about Michael Behe and the flagellum (I was actually embarassed for this fool, as he patronizingly explained all about Behe's nonsense to Dawkins.)

plenty of other garden variety nonsense, and, ready for it...

Quantum mechanics (like all you have to do is say it and you've won the argument against the big scary scientist)

What really gets me is knowing that this moron is tooling around Vancouver in his car, doing a job 9-5 that keeps him busy, and he really thinks privately that he has the answers to people like Dawkins, and what's more, he thinks RD has never heard any of it before. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that if he even listened to Dawkins' answer, he's sure that given enough time, he'd win the debate.

What is wrong with people?

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43. Comment #173392 by BigJohn on April 30, 2008 at 5:55 pm

The ads are very log, aren't they?

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44. Comment #173403 by BigJohn on April 30, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Lovely interview. Richard answers in his usual reasoned and lucid manner.

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45. Comment #173413 by Spaceboy on April 30, 2008 at 6:37 pm

Oooh Dawkins is doesn't sound too happy towards the end. I'm not surprised, he may have preferred intelligent questions.

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46. Comment #173418 by HappyPrimate on April 30, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Always so great to hear RD in a public venue. The more exposure the general public gets to any of the Four Horsemen, the better. These poor callers are simply parroting what they've been brainwashed with and when they hear someone like RD, they simply regurgitate the lines they were fed by their parents and/or religious instructors. Fortunately RD can and does give them a reason to reach out beyond the indoctrination they have been clinging to for all these years. That seed of doubt planted will sometimes grow into reason and rationality.

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47. Comment #173443 by Saerain on April 30, 2008 at 7:18 pm

The people who call in on radio shows or stand up in audiences to frantically use Hitler and Stalin like rapid-fire air cannons scare the life out of me. Especially in audiences, I feel fear for the people sitting around the person who are visibly shaken by his or her behaviour.

I suppose this is why I don't work in airport security. I'm sure I'd be trying to get anyone who raises their voice above five decibles tackled.

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48. Comment #173451 by bentleyd on April 30, 2008 at 7:24 pm

In Comment 21, Steve Zara said:

Perhaps we need to point them at a site that shows a thousand further sites with evidence for evolution.

Well, here's to you, Steve!

http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/3541_project_steve_2_16_2003.asp

The National Center for Science Education's "Project Steve" is a tongue-in-cheek parody of a long-standing creationist tradition of amassing lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" or "scientists who dissent from Darwinism." Project Steve mocks this practice with a bit of humor, and because "Steves" are only about 1% of scientists, it incidentally makes the point that tens of thousands of scientists support evolution. And it honors the late Stephen Jay Gould, NCSE supporter and friend.

As of 14 Apr 08, the Steve-O-Meter is up to 877 scientists named Steve who affirm the validity of evolution.

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49. Comment #173454 by BW022 on April 30, 2008 at 7:27 pm

I wonder if Richard gets tired of answering the *same* questions?

Let's see... Darwin leads to Stalin and Hitler... check. You need faith to believe in evolution... check. You are being insulting to religious people... check.

I love the guy who is trying to 'educate' Richard Dawkins on the biology of the bacterial flagellum? Some guy... you mean Micheal Behe? Forty gears... you mean proteins? etc. It is amazing that you are talking to a world class biologist and you don't even invoke junior high-school research skills in looking up a Wikipedia article on the subject before asking the question?

Anyway... thanks to Mr. Dawkins for his perseverance.

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50. Comment #173465 by adk on April 30, 2008 at 7:36 pm

Excellent interview as always, of course. SO STOKED I got to see his lecture at UBC! :D

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