205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Sniper Bending Thing
Most people don't understand things. Douglas adams had quite a nice story about im a man who didn't understand how television worked. He got an engineer to explain to him howe work. And i could see in his eyes he was thinking, you know, i'm a sceptic too, but this one thing. If copperfield makes the statue of liberty dis here, do you really think he moved the atoms somewhere? People, no, of course not. But the spoon bending thing, oh, or the mentalism thing? Oh, there's something special there. No, it's just another trick. In other words, they're kind of dumbfounded.
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