richard talkins will be joining us. -- dawkins will be joining us. i have one regret about the emmys. i have one regret about the emmys on sunday night and that is that i was unable to attend and share in the joy for my friend stephen colbert and those at the court "the colbert reporo won a long served well overdue emmy. i have been in awe of that show from episode one. i believe stephen and everyone there has created something that has never before been seen on television and things happen on that show that could only happen on that show and they are remarkable. to my staff and crew, here is the best thing about my staff and crew it's not about -- win or lose, it doesn't matter. you know i saw newhart on stage, if anybody should have a house made out of emmys it's bob newhart. he was getting his first at age 135. [ laughter ] so everyone here, never forgets how fortunate they are to have had the kind of run that we've had, to have had the kind of recognition that we have. we know that the opportunity to do what we do every day is a phenomenal one an

please welcome richard dawkins. sir -- [cheers and applause] thank you for joining us.ook is called "an appetite for wonder. and look at you. look at you with the mop top and the -- you could have been in a band with that. >> that's what i call the grinning idiot picture. the british one has the rupert brooks picture the sideways poetic look. >> jon: you have both of those, do you? fair enough. there's a liberal presbyterian pastor in my audience. [cheers and applause] when i saw liberal, here is how liberal he is, he is jewish. [ laughter ] for better or for worse, you seem to be the avatar for the dividing line of the incompatibility of religious belief and scientific belief. somehow you have, through maybe your words. >> i'll take that. >> jon: his question was: can you let richard dawkins now that there are religious individuals with a strong belief in god who believe in the scientific method. does that seem incongrewous today? >> no, i'm well aware of that. [cheers and applause] >> jon: he said ask him if he's aware of that and i go, i'm pretty sure assist wear of

richard dawkins and stephen hawking. >> guest: yes. so in hawking's case it's called "my brief history," and it was just published. and it reflects on his amazing rise to fame after his book "a brief history of time" was published a little more than 20 years ago. and, certainly, we look at hawking now, and it's hard not to see celebrity more than we see scientist. in the case of richard dawkins, which his memoir -- "an appetite for wonder: the making of a scientist" -- it will publish on the 24th, and already it's generating a kind of controversy that perhaps his publisher may not want. he seems to be reflecting on his childhood in a manner that many people may find extremely politically incorrect. butting that this is dawkins, he's hardly backing down from his comments, and i think he is doing what happens to be the title of another hot book coming out this fall, "doubling down." >> host: and what do you mean he's being politically incorrect about his childhood? >> guest: well, he issued some comments in a recent interview and also ba

and the development of richard doc dawkins in his book "an appetite for wonder", making a scientist. and in the book by keith ellison, "my country tis of thee." and max hastings explains the books europe goes to war. in fighting the dragon lady, monique brinson gallery presents the first lady and her exile since 1987. and the plan to bring the planet back to its natural balance on our last best hope for a future on earth. and in kansas city lightning come in the rise and times of charlie parker, he recounts the life of the late alan weisman. watch for these authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> since 1998, booktv has shown over 40,000 hours of top nonfiction authors. including bob woodward. >> he preemptively felt the this was right, and i was horrified. and i was delighted. >> i was so that people were different. they obviously rose to that occasion, that if i can create something that is so moving and this can be the distance that you sometimes need. and people understand and understanding is exactly what is fundamental. >> the point is that none of the relevan

public christians like then pope 16th and pastor rick warren were analyzed alongside the tweets of richard dawkinsve emotion words than atheists, like love, happy and great. rather than negative words like bad, wrong or awful. and that religious people may have a more intuitive rather than analytical style of thinking. >> i think the study results confirm what i've seen in my experience with religious people and interacting with nonreligious people that those who believe in god and those who know christ as their savior have a meaning, a purpose, a fulfillment, a joy that those outside of the faith simply don't have. >> the twitter study confirms research at other institutions like the pew forum, harvard and yale universities, showing that religious people in general tend to form tight-knit supportive communities that contribute to healthier as well as happier lives. atheists counter the twitter study is flawed because not everyone measures happiness the same way. >> reality and skepticism and criticism are very positive things. and we tweet about it and we like it. and this is the important thing

the combination between secularism, richard dawkins, christopher hichens, that type of secularism combined with the strict separation is some -- they are not atheists but because of their experience in europe, they want something stricter but that combination is very powerful because it is the dominant thing in the american universities and through the university's in the media so that is one end of the bull and by would argue against both extremes and the other extreme and christians have fought unwisely and treated backlash against themselves. >> host: what are those movements? >> guest: my broad critique of the christian right is it politicized the faith. by that i mean they were left wing in the 1920s, they trusted politics to do more than politics can do. politics is often downstream from the source of many of the problems which can't be fixed politically. newhouse used to say the first thing to say about politics is politics is not the first thing. it is important or we can't trusted to do what it can do. the second thing they have done is a christian mistake, in nineteenth century l

tweets of the pope and an author were all analyzed alongside of the tweets from follower0s of richard dawkinsh chens who pended the best seller can "god is not great." christians used more emotion words like love, happy, grace, rather that negative words like bad, wrong, awful and that religious people may have a more intuitive rather than analytical style of thinking. >> i think the study results confirm what i have seen in my experience with religious people and interacting with nonreligious people, that those who believe in god and those who know christas their saviour, have a meaning, a purpose, a fulfillment, a joy that those outside of the faith simply don't have. >> the twitter study confirmed research at other institutions like the pew forum, harvard and yale university, showing that religious people in general tend to form tightknit supportive communities that contribute to healthier and happier lives. athiests counter that the study is flawed because not everyone measures happiness the same way. >> reality and criticism and scent simple positive things. athiests tend to like differe

coming upton today's show -- coming up on today's show richard talkins will be joining us. -- dawkinsve one regret about the emmys on sunday night and that is that i was unable to attend and share in the joy for my friend stephen colbert and those at the court "the colbert reporo won a long served well overdue emmy. i have been in awe of that show from episode one. i believe stephen and everyone there has created something that has never before been seen on television and things happen on that show that could only happen on that show and they are remarkable. to my staff and crew, here is the best thing about my staff and crew it's not about -- win or lose, it doesn't matter. you know i saw newhart on stage, if anybody sou