God Strikes Back (2/5) - Richard Dawkins

Second (of five) part of the 2008 Channel-4 documentary 'God Strikes Back'. The documentary is part of the series 'The Genius of Darwin'.

In this final episode Dawkins examines why Darwin's theory remains one of the most controversial ideas in history.

Highlights of this episode include a science teacher who believes the world is less than 10,000 years old, the Archbishop of Canterbury being made to look like an intellectual cretin, and an insight into the hate mail which Professor Dawkins receives from 'good christian folk' for his outspoken support of science over mumbo-jumbo.

As Darwin set out on the voyage on the Beagle he still believed that god created the world and everything in it. But the evidence he discovered - fossils, patterns of anatomical resemblance, startling similarities of embryos and domestic breeding - demonstrated the truth: that all life forms vary and that some are more likely to reproduce, passing variations on.

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[84Drumcircle]

" I hope you get hit by a church van"

LOOOLOOOLLLL

Even if they are dumb, that was awesome!

[kagairu]

Dawkins is such a soft-spoken gentleman, even when talking to complete nutters.

[kougermasterz]

Creat-OR?! That one "word" just sent me into hysterics. I'm surprised Dawkins could keep a straight face.

[huizar4289]

Creat-OR. LMAO.

[bla53653]

Ah Wendy...my lovely dumb! Crazy bitch - before I die, I want to slap her in her fucking face!

[Bluenatic1337]

Wendy and everyone that agrees with her needs to die. sooner the better.

[UniversalRee]

I want to take a bunch of creationists on a paleontologist's field trip: first, a natural history museum; second, an intense course in DNA; third, a trip to any of a number of geological sites showing the strata through the millions of years (probably somewhere in Utah, or perhaps the Grand Canyon). Perhaps I should set up a nonproifit. I am willing to go to bible study in return.

[TheBattelfielder]

With such a pathetic state of mind set of ordinary people & those who runs our education system & teaches us i bet west will soon enter into the dark ages of future.Now its interesting to see that Even in this global economic chaos,economies of those countries with higher num of evoloutionary believers are performing well.

[TheBattelfielder]

And here we thinks that evil capitalism is bringing the economic problems in west,the same capitalism who has made western world the 1st world civilization.It has brought all the growth in past but we must realize that this is 21st century,its the scientific development that drives the economy.If your economy is down then your science and its development is down,It has nothing to do with the system.

[Hamporkcheese]

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