richard dawkins - beyond reason channel 4

[Sheherazadethegoat]

i am loving it - i hate those parasitic mediums.

I think Private Eye calls him Deepan Pizza, which makes me snurk, childishly.
Love Dawkins, haven't seen his serious yet though, curses!

"It would be much harder to engage with the major religions of history, where he would be pitting himself against minds at least as formidable as his own. Is he going to do that? We shall see. "

Well, that was the subject of The God Delusion, so I doubt he'll go over that ground again in this series.

i don't think that not believing in religion makes the world materialistic, it seems to me it manages greed and materialism quite well, often at the expense of those considered inferior, and religion often enables that.

I like Dawkins despite his irascible manner.
however I find Stephen Jay Gould more engaging.
It was interesting following their disagreements

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missed the program (almost typed pogrom there!)

But I remember the 12 strands of DNA cobblers from a post on MN. Wasn't a poster tempted to pay up to have her mystic 10 missing strands 'found'?

True Pruners.
The Roman empire and all the slavery involved in that was pretty nasty, too.

As an aside isn't stephen Jay gould dead now?

Yup. It was funny.
The scientists were on top amusing form iirc.

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yes been dead a few years now

she was, very

It was one of the most good natured threads I ever remember on MN, given that most of us were posting, 'You have to be joking!'. She was kinder than we all deserved!