Richard Dawkins Previously on LTA:
Richard Dawkins Review - New York Review of Books
Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show - RTE
Richard Dawkins on Radio Ulster
Collection of Richard Dawkins Clips
I like the contrasting styles, both in presentation and content between Dawkins and Paula Zahn; Dawkins with the posh English accent and Zahn with all the Botox Action make for a nice pair - like to see them fight supernatural crime on a weekly series - she would see God and a pattern behind all things / he would find the 'real-life' scientific, natural causes behind the events they battle.
Anyhew, he's right about the misunderstanding of Atheists - I think they get a bad rap. News from the States:
U.S.A.ians Would Rather Be Governed By A Homosexual Than An Atheist
Am sure many find Dawkins annoying - he can come across as a supercilious prick - but think he's alright in this clip, forthright and with out the usual condescension and patronising attitude.
Dawkins gave a talk at the Queen's Festival in Belfast a few years ago. He's not too impressed by men of the cloth. One thing he said that stuck in my head was the fact that while most folk have to work bloody hard to gain respect in their field, clergymen simply don some religious garb, spend a few years in the seminary and automatically everybody gives them a huge degree of respect. This is even though they are people who have very limited life experience and are therefore ill-prepared to make balanced judgements on virtually anything...
Some tenuous N. Ireland related Dawkins trivia: his wife is a lady called Lalla Ward who, as well as being Doctor Who's sidekick in the 1970's, is also from the aristocratic Ward family who built and resided at Castle Ward for on the shores of Strangford Lough in our very own County Down. It's now a National Trust property and well worth a visit...!
Posted by: Brabazon | February 23, 2007 at 04:31 AM
Not bad.
Posted by: Jenny | February 23, 2007 at 06:38 AM