Will Religion Just Go Away?

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i hear rumblings from iran and from m egypt that things may be beginning to shift, but we got a long way to go there. But the god delusion has been translated millions of times. Saresbin has been down loaded millions of times as a p d f, translated into arabic. That's a very encouraging sign. I don't feel the need for it myself. We've developed a pretty good system of secular values with the foundation of why certain things are right and wrong,. again, based on human suffering and other criteria. And i know many people who feel very strongly we do need something like that.

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.