Monday, January 09, 2006

I Should be in Dawkins' Film Tonight on BBC 4

Here is one criticism of the show, although I think that the reviewer hasn't seen it but just can't stand Richard Dawkins.

It's called Root of all Evil and is on Monday the 9th and 16th, Channel 4, at 20:00.

The acclaimed evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins challenges religious belief systems across the world in a new two part series on Channel 4.

The first film 'The God Delusion' can be seen on Monday 9th January 2006 at 8.00pm with part two on YouTube, 'The Virus of Faith' being broadcast on 16th January 2006 at 8.00pm.  
I'm on at around 37:30 or so.





Here's an excerpt from the critique:

This program will most likely be appalling and embarassing in equal measure - and it will no doubt lack most of the Virtues common to all human cultures that have ever had a chance of evolving satisfactorily rather than annihilating themselves and others in a short-sighted fiddling of their Emperors and Empires.

If Dawkinsism is your religion - fine. But do your best to bring a little bit of common sense and reality to it before you end up thinking that rape is merely a valid (and thus not 'evil') expression of the Survival of the Fittest.

Hopefully it'll say something about more than Dawkins' own personal contempt for religions besides his and his complete lack of understanding of and empathy for people not in denial of the Human Condition - but it probably won't - it'll just sell some advertising space and kick up a debate that will no doubt sell a lot more as well as allow Dawkin's to further exploit his gullible followers with a few more poorly written and misguided psuedo-(I mean popular)-science products.

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