That was interesting. But silly. Equating God to pink spaghetti monsters? And the sad fact that he said there was no evidence of God, yet we have historical evidence of Him stepping into history, and general revelation. All of which he must suppress in unrighteousness. Other than that, he seemed like a nice fellow. But then heretics usually do.

Suppression in unrighteousness - Yes!

I agree with Timothy that judging from the video Richard Dawkins looks like a nice and very reasonable man. I also read his book and, though I do not agree with him, I cannot say that I found it extremely shocking or that the book made me angry. I am a Christian myself, but I realize that that there must be Christians who are not really that nice or that good and there must also be non-Christians who are nice people and lead good, decent and highly moral lives.
Nobody can prove that God exists and nobody can prove that God does not exist. Nobody can prove that what the Bible says is true and I think that nobody can prove that the Bible contains a number of lies or that the Bible is full of lies and therefore totally meaningless.
This brings us to the question: why are there people who feel sure that God exists and that the Bible is God's message to mankind ( like I do) and why are there people who feel sure or practically sure that there is no God and that the Bible is a collection of stories and doctrines merely based on the imagination of people?
I think that most Christians, most people who believe there is a God and that the Bible is his message for us got these convictions from what they were taught by their parents. And from what their environment, the culture they live in, their teachers at school, their friends told them.
Another important reason why people like me and other Christians are convinced of the existence of God and are convinced that everything they read in the Bible is true.... is that what they see in the world around them is so well made, so beautiful, so fantastic that they cannot imagine that these things are just the product of scientific phenomena and scientific developments that were not created by a higher being and were not created for a purpose.
A few weeks ago my third grandchild was born. When I looked at him and looked at him again and again, day after day, I could not help but being totally convinced that the child was a gift from God, that he had been made by God, and that God had made him for a purpose.
But of course my conviction is no scientific proof. But I do not need any form of proof. My whole being, my heart, my mind, mt thinking power all tell me the same thing: like I said: a gift from God.
But I realize that my conviction is based on faith, not on any scietific experimenting that is convincing to all humanity.
But I can live with that. And I respect people who do not agree with me.

Thanks Willem. Children do bring the Gospel much closer to us than we would think. Kids push all of our buttons and yet we love them with all our hearts.

We yearn for those children-parent relationships and it makes sense that we were made on the image of the holy God himself a father - a son in perfect unity and love.

Your website looks pretty cool. I'm glad you're also spreading the Gospel in Europe as they need it there as well.

Nobody can prove that God exists and nobody can prove that God does not exist. Nobody can prove that what the Bible says is true and I think that nobody can prove that the Bible contains a number of lies or that the Bible is full of lies and therefore totally meaningless.

Can you prove either of your contentions?

I really feel bad for Richard. He's no longer a scientist but a philosopher. People are no longer interested in his scientific studies but more on his theological observations.

Richard Dawkins retired from his post as Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science, at Oxford University in 2008, (the guy is 69 on March 26th, give him a break)

I hope the next person that interviews him asks him: So what have you got going on in your lab - Richard

He doesn't have a lab, look him up on wiki and you'll see the sort of work he has done, work that contributes more to the understanding of the natural world than any bronze age story book.

Can you prove either of your contentions?

Can you disprove them?

If there was proof of God's existence, you wouldn't need FAITH and you wouldn't BELIEVE, you would KNOW.

what they see in the world around them is so well made, so beautiful, so fantastic that they cannot imagine that these things are just the product of scientific phenomena and scientific developments that were not created by a higher being and were not created for a purpose...

But of course my conviction is no scientific proof. But I do not need any form of proof. My whole being, my heart, my mind, mt thinking power all tell me the same thing: like I said: a gift from God

Exactly what every Hindu, Sihk, Muslim, Buddhist, Jew, Taoist, Shintoist, Confusionist, Gnostic, Scientologist, Babist, Rastafarian, Jainist, Samaratinist thinks. It's also what every indigenious population of America, (north and south), Africa, Asia, Austraulasia, Europe, thought, even before having other religions forced upon them thought. It's what the ancient Greeks/Egyptians/Romans/Persians/Babylonians and any other civilisation thought, thousands of years ago.

Why your God over their's?

Why any God(s) over none?

What you have said, comfirms my own "belief". That religion is ignorant man's answers, to what he doesn't understand. The more that ignorance is lifted, the less need there is for it.