Positively Non-Religious

An Ayn Rand interview that took place almost 40 years ago.  She handles a heckler very well…

I particularly enjoyed this part:

Interviewer: You have to be impressed with the universe. When you see order in the universe, this wasn’t an accident, Ms. Rand.

Ayn Rand: Oh now you’ve got to give me a few minutes. [laughter] What do you think would happen in a disorderly universe? What is the concept of order? What does it have to do with the things which exist? Do they clash with each other? If there were contradictions they wouldn’t exist. There is no such thing as a disorderly universe. Our whole concept of order comes from observing reality and reality has to be orderly because it’s the standard of what exists.

(Source — the comment section is very interesting…)

Richard Dawkins answers questions from reddit.com. The best part is the last 5 minutes when he reads his own hatemail.