Is There Anything at All?

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i wrote an essay in my giving the devil his dupe a using a john leslie and robert lawrence cune's book. The mystery of existence, why is there anything at all? And they really bore down on when you talk about nothing. Soo. You go out in the universe, you take out all the planets and as and gas and so on, but that's not even remotely close to nothing. We think of it like, well, there's nothing, and the god is outside of it. But no, there would not be any outside, be no good. There'd be nothing. It'sbut, but, i don't know what that means,

In episode 205, Michael Shermer speaks with Richard Dawkins, the author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

This episode is heavily edited because Dawkins was having trouble with his voice, and Shermer tried to speak a little more to give Dawkins a chance to let his voice rest.