Neil deGrasse Tyson on Richard Dawkins | StarTalk

Richard Dawkins the well-known evolutionary biologist we have him as a guest on Startalk he's a leading atheist and it's wild some people because he's blunt about his and a matter of fact it is a theistic ways and this is rubbed people in our modern culture in various ways it's a champion in some circles and he's demonized in others and so I just thought we should unpack that and see what are the forces operating here and what I even challenged him I said are you a little too harsh here can you will you because we often there are common motives common goals but with different tactics if you will in educating the public and so this is a conversation with him about what are his methods and tools and ways I compare that with some of my methods and tools and ways as an educator as a scientist and also in studio we had as a secondary guest a Jesuit priest who was one of these hip priests right he's not priest come in all flavors this one there's like hip and he's he was quite candid about where he's coming from and what the Catholic Church has stood for over the years and the changes that have been within it so it's an interesting conversation more to enlighten the perspectives of the viewer not to have a knock-down drag-out fight I've never seen televised fights ever enlighten anyone about anything what happens is people choose sides and they become more ossified in their views so Startalk it's never my goal to just sit there and debate people and tell someone who's writing wrong yes I'm an educator I'm here to enlighten people to empower you to think for yourself if at the end of the day I've accomplished that that was a good day for me

Channel: National Geographic

Views: 30,594

Rating: 4.8301158 out of 5

Keywords: StarTalk, neil degrasse tyson video, richard dawkins, astrophysics, atheism, Neil on Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Organization Leader), national geographic, nat geo, natgeo, animals, wildlife, science, explore, discover, survival, nature, culture, documentary

Id: jH9XOGglGtw

Length: 2min 9sec (129 seconds)

Published: Mon May 18 2015

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[u/WCephei]

I looking for the full episode online, someone has it?