Richard Dawkins has a new new book out called the Magic of Reality. Doing the promotional rounds in the UK and the US must promote a certain amount of cognitive dissonance for Dawkins as the calibre of the questions he faces varies a great deal depending on which side of the Atlantic he’s on. Compare and contrast, my faithful readership, the two interviews conducted with Dawkins, one by the BBC and the other by Fox News.
As a North American, the second interview makes me ashamed to share the same continent with ‘commentators’ that espouse the merits of bronze age wisdom in the 21st century.
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October 23, 2011 at 1:57 pm
renetascian
Watching Bill O’Wryly try to be intelligent is like watching a chimpanzee make screeching sounds on a chalkboard with pieces of metal from a coat hanger. Meaning it’s bitterly painfully stupid listening to his nonsense. Bill actually argues for just making up whatever fictional nonsense you particularly want to believe, in the interim to real evidence. Really, does he listen to himself? Ever? Essentially, he is saying that hell believe in God until a better explanation comes along. He also claims that religion constrains bad behavior when it actually condones it, (Slavery, killing homosexuals, killing women for petty crimes, et cetera). Is he really that stupid, and if so why is he still on TV. I am with you on your sentiments, but I am glad that we have intelligent atheists aspiring to reason to counteract the O’Reillys and Becks of the world.
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October 23, 2011 at 11:19 pm
The Arbourist
More BBC and less Fox would do a world of good. Anyways, I think it would be nice to here the mainstream point of view in a nice British accent for awhile. :>
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