Do You Trust the Scientific Process?

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Richard: It is reasonable to have faith in the scientific procedure where experiments are repeated, her reviewr all the procedures science has put in place. But how do you think about religious truths or political truths in a different way? Andd, let me recount an story that i've been telling on this b podcast many times. Hopefully it's not a false memory or a conflated memory. Richard: If we had a piece of the true cross, and on the piece of thetrue cross was a little piece of flesh, and we could extract jesuss d and a, since he was born a virgin, right? Would it be something like a partho genesis? Or

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.