Technically this is from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. TO see Mr. Adams actually reading this fantastic passage...this audience doesn't know how lucky they were.
I grew up on the Hitchhiker's books and I still have my set, autographed by Douglas Adams when he came by my University to promote "Mostly Harmless." We miss his genius!
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1991, Growing Up in the Universe. How brilliant that all, nearly 5 hours, of it are available on here. I love the fact that Douglas attended.
To anyone who does not know, this is from the 4th episode of Richard Dawkins - "Growing Up in the Universe" lectures, 1991. You can watch the full episode from his (Dawkins') offical channel.
The fact that Douglas Adams just HAPPENED to be in the audience, really proves that there is "a purpose" behind everything in the universe. My christian beliefs become all the more stronger because of it. Especially when im out in the woods murdering a defenseless animal with my bare hands..
This is one of my favorite passages from my favorite work of fiction. It's lovely to be able to hear Douglas Adams read it, thanks for posting this video.
Of course animals are meant to be food! And they run away from us if we hunt them because they want us to have the satisfaction of hunting something! Duh, right? Also, this is sarcasm. Apparently, it's hard to tell on the internet.
I was gob smacked when Douglas Adams stood up. He's my all time favourite comedy writer. Hard to imagine anyone thinking he's boring. I've read all of his books, most of them more than once. The bit about the Bablefish being so improbable that it was considered as final proof of God's non-existence. Such a logical U turn at the end of the explanation. Haha. Maybe I can find it somewhere.
in the BBC series the dish of the day was played by Peter Davison, who was at that time both Sandra Dickinson's (Trillian) husband and the newly announced fifth Doctor.
I will ALWAYS hear that in Peter Davidson's voice. He hadn't even be Doctor Who yet, and Doctor Who still had Douglas' writing fingerprints all over it.
This lecture series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures was given in 1991. His daughter was born in 1984. Presumably the little girl to which he refers was his own Juliet.
I won't get into the theological debate and just say how wonderful it is to see the late great Douglas Adams reading from HG2G! Thank you much for this!
Thank you to Douglas Adams!!! I have read, and re-read, his books so many times I can quote passages from memory. I hope I get to meet him on the other side.
@Greatkingrat88 they are not objectively wrong. torture is not objectively wrong. right/wrong, justice, good, evil etc are all human constructs. although i do not like torture and do not torture people because i do not want to be tortured, torture is not objectively wrong. morality is purely subjective. just stating this in case, for clarity.
wow! what good fortune to stumble upon this video! dawkins and adams are geniuses (imo) and advocates for reason over superstition. i never heard adams before and i loved his reading of his own words. what a shame he died so young. the world needs his humor and insight.. like carlin, sagan and a few others who worked to push the world (kicking and screaming) out of the dark ages.
I was following along in my copy of "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" (the second book in the series of "Hitchhiker's Guide", chapter 17) and discovered he was paraphrasing quite a bit.
Well, whatever the reason, everybody loves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's my bible... People love the radio show... and the movie...and the tv show... But all of them hold some small part of Douglas Adams that can stay with us forever. Plus, that version of the Universe is way more exciting than whatever religious view has it.
@dfpolis I believe you are quite right. Ecosystems are linked and the progress of one system can be dependant on another. In fact I agree that, instead of belittling the little girl, Dawkins should have appreciated the fact that, whilst the function of the flower is to survive and re produce, as with the bee, she was not wrong to suggest that an evolutionary dependancy that flower and bees have on each other is part of their mutual success and continued existence of their respective species.
@makemarker I never quite noticed how i came to be an atheist. It was sort of a gradual process. But now that i think about it, reading the hitchhiker's guide might have had something to do with it since i read it at about that time. It at least showed me that it was ok to make jokes about gods and not take everything so seriousely. I guess that was quite liberating and cleared the way for more critical thinking.
I was in the audience for that series - and annoyed I didn't know he'd be there for that episode - I'd been reading HHGTTG and left it at home that day" :(
@allan3141 that someone doesnt want children to be brainwashed by a particular religion by having it taught to them as truth in a science classroom, makes them have a double standard? im lost.
My life would have gone in an altogether, undoubtedly more boring, direction, were it not for the genius of Douglas Adams, whose original radio version of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy made me fall in love with radio and audio, media which I've worked in for over 39 years (I started off volunteering, aged 12, for BBC Radio Sheffield). Listening to this, I wondered if Douglas was imitating Simon Jones' interpretation of Arthur Dent, but, given Douglas was the author who created the tea-drinking, headache-prone, dressing-gowned Earthman, perhaps Simon Jones is an even more exceptionally-gifted actor than I realised. Maybe, one day, wherever he is, Douglas will find some way of returning to the here and now to tell us. Of course, Douglas Adams, even when working on H2G2, was busy as a script writer and editor for Doctor Who, which is 60 years old this coming Saturday, 25th November. Douglas worked extensively with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the audio alchemists who created the incidental music (and, for the TV series, the main theme, based on The Eagles' "Journey of the Sorcerer"), and I can imagine the likes of Delia Derbyshire, Paddy Kingsland, Peter Howell, Dick Mills, Brian Hodgson et al, were just his kind of people. Whilst Doctor Who was all about The Doctor's adventures in space and time, the original BBC Radio 4 series of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was an adventure in sound. Credit too to Dirk Maggs, whose production of the final few stories (after Douglas had left us) was beautifully respectful of the 1978 series, with direction that could quite have easily been Douglas' own. Listening to them back to back, you'd think they were of the same era, whatever era, that was, because H2G2, aurally, was out of time, out of this world, out-a(er)-space, but sadly without Douglas' deadline-defying pen able to write any more of these unbelievable-but-utterly believable stories, out of time, but for me, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy will always be my bible. Someone else who is no longer with us but who I would equally have loved to have a (very lengthy) conversation with, is the afore-mentioned Delia Derbyshire, whose original arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, back in pre-synth 1963, was an absolute work of genius. Please forgive me the shameless plug, but it was Delia's work that inspired me to produce my own arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, called "Doctor Who Theme 60: Infinity". The title is an intentional nod to H2G2: Infinity is a reference to the Infinite Improbability Drive of Zaphod Beeblebrox's stolen ship The Heart of Gold, as I remembered The Doctor's TARDIS was also stolen, and maybe this served a Douglas Adams' inspiration? Anyway, my tribute to Delia, Douglas the The Doctor is now available from all major online music retailers and streaming services and took almost a year to produce, because I was so worried in case the fans weren't keen! Unfortunately, my voiceover business is unlikely to survive until the end of this year as Artificial Intelligence (via AI voices) has brought the voiceover industry (and vast other swathes of the creative industry) to its knees, and as much of a technology enthusiast Douglas Adams was, he also had a great deal of time for people and I'm sure he would not have approved of the onward, unregulated march of AI and its destruction of so many thousands (and potentially millions) of livelihoods. Releasing this track and charging for it, is not a big money-making exercise for me, as, after losing 85% of my clients over the past 18 months (60% thanks to post-Brexit EU rule changes, 25% and counting to AI voices), I can't even afford the $70 required to get a TH-cam promoter to find me 1,000 new subscribers to my TH-cam channel in the hope that they'll, in-turn, buy my track. It's more of a fundraising effort so I can afford to eat, catch up with rent and bill payments (and not lose my home before Christmas) and so I can afford the train fare to Sheffield to see my family (it is a very important journey which I absolutely have to make, and I will be devastated if I cannot get there in-time). So please, I hope you can lend me your support - even if you can't afford to buy a copy of my Doctor Who theme, maybe you could let as many people as you can know about, and hopefully they will. To hear a sample of my track, and to hear (and see) more of the work I do through my business, Danmade Content, Voice and Music, please subscribe to @DanmadeTV here on TH-cam, or visit www.danmade.studio to find out more. I realise this has been a very long read, so if you've got this far, thank you very much for your time, and apologies once again for the interruption. Dan Akers
@WSWarthog It means that they co-evolved and are interdependent. The whole ecosystem is interdependent, directly or indirectly. We are one of the organisms using honey as an energy source. What do you think being for the sake of means? A being for the sake of B means that B benefits from A. So, what, precisely is the problem you see? I am not saying the little girl is a systems ecologist, only that the relation she saw is real.
Douglas's Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy was full of all sorts of fun and engaging themes and conversations, which made it interesting and fun even for an evil, no good, backwards Christian like myself.
Adams was making these statements; There is no question. + The pile of things we don't understand is much bigger than the pile of things we do understand.
I can remember how it goes basically: "Meanwhile the poor Bablefish is such an improbable creature that it is often seen as one of the most compelling arguments for the non-existence of God. The argument goes like this: God says, "I refuse to provide proof of my existence because proof denies faith". And Man says "But the Bablefish is a dead giveaway". "Oh", says God, "I hadn't thought of that" and promptly disappears in a puff of logic. Not sure who he's making fun of...
@mynameisauk With death comes greater recognition and comments about wishing the dead person was still alive. Energy doesn't dissipate - death is the next best promotion tool to being sampled in a hit song. Douglas is still making a difference.
@thedalailamahimself Yes, it might surprise you to know that SOME people can be trusted around children and are not required by law to remain at a distance from them.
@gavsmith1980 - The point I was making is that flowers do not have a reason to exist, apart from whatever reason we give them. What the little girl said was very poetic and is more 'true' than whatever Dawkins has to say on their existance. Dawkins can't answer any question on true reality, because modern science only takes us so far. - Alot of Atheists worship Dawkins' word as gospel and revere him as a God with all the answers. That was my metaphor. I'm an atheist.
It doesn't matter if it is a countable noun or not. you may not use the term "3 natural selections" but may or may not say we have 3 instances or cases of natural selection. natural selection is a process, and you can have any number of processes you like. just like a decision you can make as many of them as you want and oh look there happens to be an "a" BEFORE decision. just like there would be if I was going to make a selection before dinner.
Beef with White Wine ? Love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, felt robbed that Douglas didn't write more books. . . fortunately we had Terry Pratchett.
@PaladinswordSaurfang "Ecosystem" is a human abstract concept. The reality is the individual organisms and their interactions. Organisms serve a reality - other organisms - not an abstraction. I do not dispute the how of evolution. I am saying that there is more to be seen by those open enough to look - not just the how, but the why. Devotees of the naturalist faith have a dogma against purposes. The rest of us can look at the data as I do in my videos #17-#20. Peace, DP
entire gospels have been removed from the bible over the years, no doubt also an early one that said "this book is entirely fictional, as are the majority of characters." or; "only to be used as a guide to philosophy."
@tayloreh agreed, it was after adams death when I noticed how universally awesome the guide is, --considering i'm 17 that's perfectly normal-- but still.. what could he produce, who knows? p.s: hit song?
Me before watching this video: "I wonder why Richard Dawkins is so hated even among his peers" After the first 35 seconds of watching this video: "Ah, that's why"
Dr. Dawkins, you knew Douglas Adams before this lecture, yes? It wasn't really an amazing coincidence that Douglas Adams happened to be present to read this passage? It's not a criticism, just curiosity.
@nandanugent Last I checked the requirement for being a mother was having children. In which case, chickens and fish are also mothers. Anyway, to suggest that eating meat is not for "evolved humans" is funny considering that we've been eating meat for the most recent thousands if not millions of years in our evolutionary process.
@tommbarton24 The key word here is evolved-not primitive forms from millions of years ago who existed at the beginning of the process of evolution. Evolution means change not stasis right?
Hello. I have a new booktube channel and have chosen a book by the magical Douglas Adams as my first reading. So, for all fellow fans - come on over, and enjoy the ride.
Read the Salmon of Doubt and you won't have any doubt (see what I did there?) of Adams' atheism. He even called himself a radical atheist so people wouldn't think he was a mere agnostic, which is the default mode for most English people.
The Hitchikers Guide was my initial boost to atheism, not that I was ever much of a believer though after reading the whole Hitchikers Guide, I finally burried any notion of a biblical god. Thank random events for that :)
Dawkins didn't even say why he had to tell the girl she was wrong from his first anecdote...Maybe you cut the clip off before he did so, but then there's no point in showing it anyway. You could have cut Dawkins out completely and called it, "Douglas Adams Reading an Excerpt From His Book".
This guy knows where his towel is.
Pul5ar
You sass that hoopy, Douglas Adams?
+Pul5ar LULULULululULululUluLululL
+Pul5ar - yes- Its being draped around the head of a muslim women.
Dawkins and Adams; what could be better than that? Warms my heart and saddens it at the same time.
Technically this is from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. TO see Mr. Adams actually reading this fantastic passage...this audience doesn't know how lucky they were.
I grew up on the Hitchhiker's books and I still have my set, autographed by Douglas Adams when he came by my University to promote "Mostly Harmless." We miss his genius!
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1991, Growing Up in the Universe. How brilliant that all, nearly 5 hours, of it are available on here. I love the fact that Douglas attended.
To anyone who does not know, this is from the 4th episode of Richard Dawkins - "Growing Up in the Universe" lectures, 1991.
You can watch the full episode from his (Dawkins') offical channel.
Thanks!
Actually, it's not from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
The (five-part) trilogy is also called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Wow, it sure was lucky that Douglas Adams just happened to be in the audience!
Two legends
What a line!
"I'll just go off and shoot myself."
Douglas Adams is brilliant!
I wish he was still with us. Two awesome individuals there.
Exactly
The fact that Douglas Adams just HAPPENED to be in the audience, really proves that there is "a purpose" behind everything in the universe. My christian beliefs become all the more stronger because of it. Especially when im out in the woods murdering a defenseless animal with my bare hands..
I'm Roman Catholic. But I'm pretty sure Richard and Douglas planned that.
Michael Lamere you poor child
I love this guy.
This is one of my favorite passages from my favorite work of fiction. It's lovely to be able to hear Douglas Adams read it, thanks for posting this video.
Of course animals are meant to be food! And they run away from us if we hunt them because they want us to have the satisfaction of hunting something!
Duh, right?
Also, this is sarcasm.
Apparently, it's hard to tell on the internet.
Poe's Law rears its ugly head once more.
If God didn't want us to hunt animals for pleasure, He wouldn't have provided us with cheap landmines.
They run away from us because they can see we need the exercise.
How GREAT is that! Douglas Adams just "happens" to be there! :D
Please go and watch all the episodes. They're really fun and informative. Just type "Richard Dawkins Christmas Lectures", and you'll see the playlist.
Aww, did anyone else notice the kid behind Douglas who thought RD was calling him on the stage and half got up?
I was gob smacked when Douglas Adams stood up. He's my all time favourite comedy writer. Hard to imagine anyone thinking he's boring. I've read all of his books, most of them more than once.
The bit about the Bablefish being so improbable that it was considered as final proof of God's non-existence. Such a logical U turn at the end of the explanation. Haha. Maybe I can find it somewhere.
Awesome! I love Douglas Adams.
They were very good friends.
in the BBC series the dish of the day was played by Peter Davison, who was at that time both Sandra Dickinson's (Trillian) husband and the newly announced fifth Doctor.
I will ALWAYS hear that in Peter Davidson's voice. He hadn't even be Doctor Who yet, and Doctor Who still had Douglas' writing fingerprints all over it.
So long and thanks for all the laughs
i love how douglas' voice for Arthur sounds like martin freeman
safeleoluv pleas do not get offended I'm only trying to help you but it's Morgan
Frans Snyman No? He means Martin Freeman, who is a different person. 😑
01:42 A very awkward moment for the boy in red.
This lecture series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures was given in 1991. His daughter was born in 1984. Presumably the little girl to which he refers was his own Juliet.
I won't get into the theological debate and just say how wonderful it is to see the late great Douglas Adams reading from HG2G! Thank you much for this!
Just 2 great men I admire too much.
Two of my personal heroes.
He was a brilliant man
Thank you to Douglas Adams!!! I have read, and re-read, his books so many times I can quote passages from memory. I hope I get to meet him on the other side.
peterpotpie Me too! Which is your favourite?
Richard Dawkins with Douglas Adams: two of my favorite authors.
And two best friends.
@Greatkingrat88 they are not objectively wrong. torture is not objectively wrong. right/wrong, justice, good, evil etc are all human constructs.
although i do not like torture and do not torture people because i do not want to be tortured, torture is not objectively wrong. morality is purely subjective.
just stating this in case, for clarity.
wow! what good fortune to stumble upon this video!
dawkins and adams are geniuses (imo) and advocates for reason over superstition.
i never heard adams before and i loved his reading of his own words.
what a shame he died so young. the world needs his humor and insight.. like carlin, sagan and a few others who worked to push the world (kicking and screaming) out of the dark ages.
What a great post. Two of my heroes doing what they do best... Entertaining and informing.
i would have liked to have heard the rest of this lecture
two totally bad ass mofos in the same room together...my happiness is maximized
I was following along in my copy of "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" (the second book in the series of "Hitchhiker's Guide", chapter 17) and discovered he was paraphrasing quite a bit.
Great! I wasn't sure what the translation was in Korean, but now I know.
Very nice. A great series, thanks.
Love this! Thanks mate.
Douglas Adams, So long and thanks for all the Babel Fish.
Dammit, where is the "love" button. A "thumbs up" will just not do in this case!
Well, whatever the reason, everybody loves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's my bible...
People love the radio show... and the movie...and the tv show...
But all of them hold some small part of Douglas Adams that can stay with us forever.
Plus, that version of the Universe is way more exciting than whatever religious view has it.
@dfpolis I believe you are quite right. Ecosystems are linked and the progress of one system can be dependant on another. In fact I agree that, instead of belittling the little girl, Dawkins should have appreciated the fact that, whilst the function of the flower is to survive and re produce, as with the bee, she was not wrong to suggest that an evolutionary dependancy that flower and bees have on each other is part of their mutual success and continued existence of their respective species.
@makemarker I never quite noticed how i came to be an atheist. It was sort of a gradual process. But now that i think about it, reading the hitchhiker's guide might have had something to do with it since i read it at about that time. It at least showed me that it was ok to make jokes about gods and not take everything so seriousely. I guess that was quite liberating and cleared the way for more critical thinking.
Great book and Adams! :)
I hope the members of that audience knew just how very lucky they were. What I would have given!!
I was in the audience for that series - and annoyed I didn't know he'd be there for that episode - I'd been reading HHGTTG and left it at home that day" :(
post below is for Major31.Sorry for some reason it bumped the comment all the way up here.
@Bumblybee256 I'm pretty sure these subtitles are Korean. They have those little round shapes everywhere.
I love and miss this man
he actually mentions him in the Dedication as well
@allan3141 that someone doesnt want children to be brainwashed by a particular religion by having it taught to them as truth in a science classroom, makes them have a double standard? im lost.
My life would have gone in an altogether, undoubtedly more boring, direction, were it not for the genius of Douglas Adams, whose original radio version of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy made me fall in love with radio and audio, media which I've worked in for over 39 years (I started off volunteering, aged 12, for BBC Radio Sheffield).
Listening to this, I wondered if Douglas was imitating Simon Jones' interpretation of Arthur Dent, but, given Douglas was the author who created the tea-drinking, headache-prone, dressing-gowned Earthman, perhaps Simon Jones is an even more exceptionally-gifted actor than I realised.
Maybe, one day, wherever he is, Douglas will find some way of returning to the here and now to tell us.
Of course, Douglas Adams, even when working on H2G2, was busy as a script writer and editor for Doctor Who, which is 60 years old this coming Saturday, 25th November. Douglas worked extensively with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the audio alchemists who created the incidental music (and, for the TV series, the main theme, based on The Eagles' "Journey of the Sorcerer"), and I can imagine the likes of Delia Derbyshire, Paddy Kingsland, Peter Howell, Dick Mills, Brian Hodgson et al, were just his kind of people.
Whilst Doctor Who was all about The Doctor's adventures in space and time, the original BBC Radio 4 series of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was an adventure in sound.
Credit too to Dirk Maggs, whose production of the final few stories (after Douglas had left us) was beautifully respectful of the 1978 series, with direction that could quite have easily been Douglas' own. Listening to them back to back, you'd think they were of the same era, whatever era, that was, because H2G2, aurally, was out of time, out of this world, out-a(er)-space, but sadly without Douglas' deadline-defying pen able to write any more of these unbelievable-but-utterly believable stories, out of time, but for me, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy will always be my bible.
Someone else who is no longer with us but who I would equally have loved to have a (very lengthy) conversation with, is the afore-mentioned Delia Derbyshire, whose original arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, back in pre-synth 1963, was an absolute work of genius. Please forgive me the shameless plug, but it was Delia's work that inspired me to produce my own arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, called "Doctor Who Theme 60: Infinity". The title is an intentional nod to H2G2: Infinity is a reference to the Infinite Improbability Drive of Zaphod Beeblebrox's stolen ship The Heart of Gold, as I remembered The Doctor's TARDIS was also stolen, and maybe this served a Douglas Adams' inspiration?
Anyway, my tribute to Delia, Douglas the The Doctor is now available from all major online music retailers and streaming services and took almost a year to produce, because I was so worried in case the fans weren't keen! Unfortunately, my voiceover business is unlikely to survive until the end of this year as Artificial Intelligence (via AI voices) has brought the voiceover industry (and vast other swathes of the creative industry) to its knees, and as much of a technology enthusiast Douglas Adams was, he also had a great deal of time for people and I'm sure he would not have approved of the onward, unregulated march of AI and its destruction of so many thousands (and potentially millions) of livelihoods.
Releasing this track and charging for it, is not a big money-making exercise for me, as, after losing 85% of my clients over the past 18 months (60% thanks to post-Brexit EU rule changes, 25% and counting to AI voices), I can't even afford the $70 required to get a TH-cam promoter to find me 1,000 new subscribers to my TH-cam channel in the hope that they'll, in-turn, buy my track. It's more of a fundraising effort so I can afford to eat, catch up with rent and bill payments (and not lose my home before Christmas) and so I can afford the train fare to Sheffield to see my family (it is a very important journey which I absolutely have to make, and I will be devastated if I cannot get there in-time).
So please, I hope you can lend me your support - even if you can't afford to buy a copy of my Doctor Who theme, maybe you could let as many people as you can know about, and hopefully they will.
To hear a sample of my track, and to hear (and see) more of the work I do through my business, Danmade Content, Voice and Music, please subscribe to @DanmadeTV here on TH-cam, or visit www.danmade.studio to find out more.
I realise this has been a very long read, so if you've got this far, thank you very much for your time, and apologies once again for the interruption.
Dan Akers
Wait a minute, wait a minute, now just wait...THE Richard Dawkins..AND THE Douglas Adams? Sw33t.
@WSWarthog It means that they co-evolved and are interdependent. The whole ecosystem is interdependent, directly or indirectly. We are one of the organisms using honey as an energy source. What do you think being for the sake of means? A being for the sake of B means that B benefits from A. So, what, precisely is the problem you see? I am not saying the little girl is a systems ecologist, only that the relation she saw is real.
wow that's the first ive ever heard from a douglas adams book and i know already he must b a comedy genius
Is Douglas Adams doing a bit of an impression of the actors from the original radio series?
The original radio show was by far the best.
Man this guy was amazing.
Douglas's Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy was full of all sorts of fun and engaging themes and conversations, which made it interesting and fun even for an evil, no good, backwards Christian like myself.
But the radio show was the original starting point for the entire series.
I can't believe how many people get that bit wrong!
How can anyone dislike this?
Haha "what an amazing coincidence" exactly in the spirit of Douglas Adams.
They were good friends. IIRC Dawkins' current wife was a friend of Adams and they for the first time at a party arranged by Adams
oh good - CUT SHORT BEFORE THE POINT WAS MADE!
Adams was making these statements;
There is no question. +
The pile of things we don't understand is much bigger than the pile of things we do understand.
I can remember how it goes basically:
"Meanwhile the poor Bablefish is such an improbable creature that it is often seen as one of the most compelling arguments for the non-existence of God.
The argument goes like this:
God says, "I refuse to provide proof of my existence because proof denies faith". And Man says "But the Bablefish is a dead giveaway". "Oh", says God, "I hadn't thought of that" and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
Not sure who he's making fun of...
@mynameisauk With death comes greater recognition and comments about wishing the dead person was still alive. Energy doesn't dissipate - death is the next best promotion tool to being sampled in a hit song. Douglas is still making a difference.
both are very valuable people two world.. shame one of them is dead.
@thedalailamahimself Yes, it might surprise you to know that SOME people can be trusted around children and are not required by law to remain at a distance from them.
@gavsmith1980
- The point I was making is that flowers do not have a reason to exist, apart from whatever reason we give them. What the little girl said was very poetic and is more 'true' than whatever Dawkins has to say on their existance. Dawkins can't answer any question on true reality, because modern science only takes us so far.
- Alot of Atheists worship Dawkins' word as gospel and revere him as a God with all the answers. That was my metaphor.
I'm an atheist.
It doesn't matter if it is a countable noun or not. you may not use the term "3 natural selections" but may or may not say we have 3 instances or cases of natural selection. natural selection is a process, and you can have any number of processes you like. just like a decision you can make as many of them as you want and oh look there happens to be an "a" BEFORE decision. just like there would be if I was going to make a selection before dinner.
Douglas Adams was such a terrible loss to humanity. I miss him so much.
Beef with White Wine ? Love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, felt robbed that Douglas didn't write more books. . . fortunately we had Terry Pratchett.
@roac7777 That's a big claim. Could you explain your assertion?
Two very great people =)
Definitely, they will have some special place there.
@PaladinswordSaurfang "Ecosystem" is a human abstract concept. The reality is the individual organisms and their interactions. Organisms serve a reality - other organisms - not an abstraction. I do not dispute the how of evolution. I am saying that there is more to be seen by those open enough to look - not just the how, but the why. Devotees of the naturalist faith have a dogma against purposes. The rest of us can look at the data as I do in my videos #17-#20. Peace, DP
entire gospels have been removed from the bible over the years, no doubt also an early one that said "this book is entirely fictional, as are the majority of characters."
or; "only to be used as a guide to philosophy."
That's a guy that knows where his towel is...
@Lathox
Yes, but he said it was ``amazing coincidence" rather than a mere ``coincidence".
@tayloreh agreed, it was after adams death when I noticed how universally awesome the guide is, --considering i'm 17 that's perfectly normal-- but still.. what could he produce, who knows?
p.s: hit song?
Douglas Adams, what an amazing coincidence!
Fucking lol at that, Dawkins is such a ledge :P.
RIP Douglas Adams
As Dawkins put it: "My first and only convert." We miss you, Doug. :_(
Me before watching this video: "I wonder why Richard Dawkins is so hated even among his peers"
After the first 35 seconds of watching this video: "Ah, that's why"
Dr. Dawkins, you knew Douglas Adams before this lecture, yes? It wasn't really an amazing coincidence that Douglas Adams happened to be present to read this passage? It's not a criticism, just curiosity.
Thats a great video!
@nandanugent Last I checked the requirement for being a mother was having children. In which case, chickens and fish are also mothers. Anyway, to suggest that eating meat is not for "evolved humans" is funny considering that we've been eating meat for the most recent thousands if not millions of years in our evolutionary process.
@tommbarton24 The key word here is evolved-not primitive forms from millions of years ago who existed at the beginning of the process of evolution. Evolution means change not stasis right?
Hello. I have a new booktube channel and have chosen a book by the magical Douglas Adams as my first reading.
So, for all fellow fans - come on over, and enjoy the ride.
Ah, Wowbagger! if only you were more infinitely prolonged.
Absolutely genius
Comedy and Philosophical ethics~
@roac7777 Nothing in the Hitchhikers Guide was meant to be taken literally too.And nothing in a Star Wars.And so in a many fantasy movies/books.
Read the Salmon of Doubt and you won't have any doubt (see what I did there?) of Adams' atheism.
He even called himself a radical atheist so people wouldn't think he was a mere agnostic, which is the default mode for most English people.
The Hitchikers Guide was my initial boost to atheism, not that I was ever much of a believer though after reading the whole Hitchikers Guide, I finally burried any notion of a biblical god. Thank random events for that :)
Dawkins didn't even say why he had to tell the girl she was wrong from his first anecdote...Maybe you cut the clip off before he did so, but then there's no point in showing it anyway. You could have cut Dawkins out completely and called it, "Douglas Adams Reading an Excerpt From His Book".
thats from the book