Is It a Betrayal of Science?

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Science is all about doing it in spite of the lack of miracles. Once you allow a miracle to get smuggled in, then you've sold the path. You've given up on siles. You've betrayed siles. And i'm not just talking about supernatural. Even if you deal with the hard problem of consciousness, maybe it's just a conceptioal problem. Our concepts about consciousness are such that we can't solve it in some scientific way.

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.