The Horrors of Religion (Religion)

by Carl, Monday, September 15, 2008, 16:07 (5913 days ago) @ George Jelliss

This may be old news to everyone else, but I found a video of Richard Dawkins lecture at Berkley at the Richard Dawkins web site.
 http://richarddawkins.net/article,2989,Richard-Dawkins-Lecture-at-UC-Berkeley,Richard-D... was my first opportunity to hear him, and he does seem mild mannered, which agrees with what George said.
I haven't had time to watch it all, but what I have watched is enjoyable.
He did avoid the probability trap on his scale-of-one-to-seven agnostic analysis. I know I am being pedantic, but probability requires quantification. If you knew there were one hundred universes and forty nine of them had gods, then we could accurately say that the probability of God existing in our universe was .49, which would make us agnostics. But in a population of single universe where god is true or false, it doesn't make sense to discuss probabilities. I understand that it is just a shorthand way to discuss perceived likelihood, which is intuitive.