Channel 4 have added an a new interview on their website:
interview with Howard Jacobson
And the Telegraph have a piece on the episode:
Richard Dawkins pushing a form of 'aggressive atheism', says presenter
Professor Richard Dawkins has been accused of “parading his own failure of imagination” by failing to consider the possible existence of God in an attack by the author Howard Jacobson.
By Urmee Khan
Update: Doug Chaplin offers his thoughts on the first episode on Clayboy, Nutritious Religion? Creation and C4's Bible: a History.
Update (Tuesday): Matt Page has his thoughts on the first episode over on Bible Films Blog.
3 comments:
Atheism lacks the imagination of religion?
Well, yes. Isn't that the point?
A nicely balanced presentation. However, I did wonder why Richard Dawkins wasn't interviewed, since his name was taken in vain several times!
The reason Dawkins wasn't interviewed was because 1. Dawkins might worry about being unfairly edited and 2. Jacobson would probably get ripped to pieces.
Any credibility went out of the window as soon as said that Dawkins was as sure as the believers. Bullshit! Read the book. You follow the probabilites. There are no certanties in life. It's all explained in The God Delusion.
You could see his atheist friend almost cringing when Jacobson revealed he wanted to believe even if it was a lie.
Would you want to know the truth even it was worse? We know which pill Jacobson would have taken if he was Neo in The Matrix.
He was also upset at atheists labeling whole populations as ignorant. I'm afraid it's simply true.
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