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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Is It Possible That as Children, We're All Natural Newtons?
The idea that once something starts moving, it carries on would come absolutely naturally to us if we'd been brought up in the space station. To conceive of it, it's almost like, then, have a long discussion in your book about nothing, what nothing means. So just for example, to say, imagine what its like to be dead. You can't do it. People think, well, there i am In my casket and people are mourning or whatever. Yes, thate would interesting. Well, we're going to run that experiment, aren't we? We're going to have a ouk permanent space stations and people going into space, and then children and,. but
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