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Traduco una parte di una bellissima conferenza tenuta recentemente da Richard Dawkins. Clicca qui per il video originale della conferenza (in English).

Dawkins is in great shape, and its exposure is particularly deep (I have found even moving, but they are a special case). Do not miss this opportunity.



--- I have been asked to speak about faith and, not being an expert in faith and fundamentalism, I will speak of faith as a scientist. Faith to me means "belief without evidence".

I want to start explaining the difference between faith-based beliefs and those based on the evidence, invented in the form of an edition of the "Quarterly Review of Biology, a well-known journal of biology. I invented a special edition focused on the difficult question of "how they became extinct i dinosauri?". Ho qui una lista di pubblicazioni scientifiche immaginarie che avrebbero potuto essere inviate alla Quarterly Review su questa domanda: i dinosauri furono uccisi da un asteroide?

1. La prima pubblicazione titola: "Lo strato di iridio nel confine-KT e la datazione mediante potassio e argo di un cratere nello Yucatan indicano che i dinosauri sono stati uccisi da un asteroide". Si tratta di una pubblicazione scientifica perfettamente ragionevole e rispettabile.
   
   
2. La seconda pubblicazione: "il presidente della Royal Society ha manifestato la sua forte convinzione interiore [il pubblico ride] che i dinosauri sono stati uccisi da un asteroide."
   
   
3. Il prof. Hapstein ha ricevuto la rivelazione privata [il pubblico ride] che i dinosauri sono stati uccisi da un asteroide.
   
   
4. Il professor Hardly è stato cresciuto per avere fede totale e indiscussa che i dinosauri sono stati uccisi da un asteroide.
   
   
5. Il prof. Hawkins ha promulgato un dogma ufficiale, vincolante per tutti gli hawkinsiani leali, che afferma che i dinosauri sono stati uccisi da un asteroide.

Beh, spero sia chiaro che la prima pubblicazione è quella che approvo, e spero che nessuno approvi le pubblicazioni 2, 3, 4 e 5. Esse sembrano illustrare precisamente the religious approach to what is true and what is false in the world.


Faith can sometimes get, like a virus, a charismatic preacher or a book persuasive, but more often faith is hereditary. is not an amazing coincidence? Almost all have the same religion of their parents. And each time, it so happens that one's own religion is the correct one. Religion tends to be preserved in the family. If we had been grown in ancient Greece, we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If the Vikings were born, we would venerable Thor and Wotan. What has this to do with the indoctrination of children?

Once, at Christmas time, my newspaper, the Independent, was looking for a picture vacation, and found that this ecumenical photo warms the heart:



The photo shows a school play about the Nativity. The caption of the photo reads, "The three wise men were played by Brit- Shad (a Sikh), Musharraf (a Muslim) and Adel (a Christian), all 4 years of age . " [audience laughs]

I will make a small change to this disascalia: "The three wise men were played by Brit- Shad (a monetarist), Musharraf (a Keynesian) and Adel (a Marxist), all age 4 years . " [audience laughs and applauds]

If it had appeared in the newspaper caption, the parents of these children were investigated to discover whether they were suitable for growing children?

Feminists have taught me What does "raise awareness", and I want to raise our consciousness against labeling children with the religion of their parents. If we are talking about children aged 4 years, there is no such thing as a Catholic child. There Only one child with Catholic parents. There are no Protestant children. There are Muslim children. Only children whose parents are Muslims.

's change that image once again: "The three wise men were played by Brit- Shad (an atheist), Musharraf (an agnostic) and Adel (a secular humanist), all 4 years of age . "Well, I'd suggest that parents of those children were investigated for child abuse.




All of us have seen maps like this, which mapped with different colors predominant religions of the world.


green area, you are a Sunni Muslim, in the red, you're a Protestant, and so on. Ma .. as it is absurd this map, when we reflect bene. Provate a immaginare una mappa simile per gli scienziati, che mappi zona per zona cosa credono gli scienziati in merito all' estinzione dei dinosauri. [Il pubblico ride, ma Dawkins si infiamma:]


Il punto è che, sebbene tutto questo sia ridicolo, tutta la società, anche la parte laica della società, accetta che sia perfettamente naturale vedere una mappa come quella precedente, e che sia perfettamente naturale vedere in un titolo di giornale "questo bambino di 4 anni è un cristiano, questo bambino di 4 anni è un musulmano, ecc" . Non sono solo le persone religiose ad accettare questo. Tutti noi nella società we have been conditioned, persuaded to treat religion as the only entity to which it is allowed to implement such shameful labeling of children with impunity.


Here is a map of Belfast. Areas Protestant and Catholic areas. And in many centuries of history, those lines of division have been and are still trenches of war. There is no other difference between people living in Belfast: have the same skin color, speak the same language, have the same look and voice, the only difference is that they have different faiths hereditary. Hereditary in the sense that Protestants attending Protestant schools, and their children and grandchildren do the same, and Catholics attend schools Catholic. And so it is propagated from generation to generation. It is taught their separation.


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Now, science is often accused of arrogant certainty [and Dawkins is accused of fundamentalism, NDM]. But what about faith? The third law of Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Clarke's Third Law is a good illustration humility of science, in this case in the form of technology. We are humble in the sense that we implicitly acknowledge that the technology we have in a century or two centuries, appear to us as the magic mobile phone technology and computers and would apparza boing 747 a person from the 18th century. The same is true of science, in his attitude toward the mysteries of the universe. JBS Haldane, the British universal genius, said, "my suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose. I suspect there are more things in heaven and earth than I dream of us, and we can dream in any philosophy. "

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