Richard Dawkins interviews the Bishop of Oxford-Uncut (1/4)

An uncut interview from the BBC television documentary "The Root of All Evil?".

Bishop Harries and Richard Dawkins have collaborated on several occasions to promote the proper teaching of science in UK classrooms. This is the full unedited interview, which was originally filmed by IWC for the Channel Four documentary 'Root or All Evil?'

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*Note. This video is a reupload, as it was taken down in the past due to copyright violation. This has been cleared-up 100%. Special thanks goes out to Josh Timonen for the copyright and legal help as well as to Youtube.

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[mojoswoptopz]

If I was god I would mention at the start of any holy book not to take what is said literally because I would know that humans (created in my image) experienced the emotion of confusion.

[oceanceaser44]

This is the first person I've seen Dawkins talk to that actually has very good points and seems to be close to Dawkins on an intellectual scale

[SeedsOfHatred]

@semitope *Sigh* You are absolutely beyond reason. Completely and totally.

There is simply nothing more to be said.

[semitope]

@SeedsOfHatred I say it is foolishness because God is a possibility and a very obvious one. He is also quite evident throughout science. For you to say "magical sky fairies" on a legitimate consideration amongst intellectuals is just silly. I've only seen the followers of these new atheists doing that

[SeedsOfHatred]

@semitope No, I wasn't lying about having been a Christian. In fact, just a few years ago, I would have been cheering you on in this debate. I would have thought my arguments were moronic and that you were right in every way.

Thank god (pardon the pun) that time has passed.

"Our faith is based on logic and evidence"

There has never been a more oxymoronic statement uttered by Human lips.

[semitope]

@SeedsOfHatred For someone who was a christian to say there was no evidence just shows you had no basis for your christianity. You are making a claim about reality based on your very limited experience. You really cannot possibly comprehend the multitude of arguments that go on with regards to God. Hitchens and Dawkins are for idiots, they never meaningfully tackle the idea of God and just feed fools with emotive ideas with no substance.

[semitope]

@SeedsOfHatred Ah, i see. To you God is just the same as a myth. Not even a possibility. I take it you were lying about actually being a christian, or maybe you just didn't have the good reasons to be one that others did. Guess what, to us God is a logical inference. Our faith is based on logic and evidence. Sure you can make something up and call it a god, but that is a created god like the created story of santa or the created story of tooth fairies.

[SeedsOfHatred]

@semitope "Foolishness like that"? So if I spoke ill of Santa Clause, I would be arrogantly "suggesting I know the limits of reality"? Does the same apply to the Tooth Fairy?

This brings us back to the beginging of our (pointless) argument, because we don't believe in any of these mythical things because there is no EVIDENCE. I don't need to be purely unbiased to conclude that there is no Santa. Get fucking real.

[semitope]

@SeedsOfHatred "magical sky-fairies"? Come on man. By saying foolishness like that you are suggesting you somehow know the limits of reality. You are no longer an objective party in assessing this.

Best hope for you is to stop listening to people like Dawkins

[SeedsOfHatred]

@semitope Oh of course. Because I reject an argument for the existence of magical sky-fairies, it MUST be because I don't understand it.

This is the arrogance of creationism.

To put things into perspective, you "saw nothing bad" in mentioning in a private message that I was somehow influenced by the Devil.

I realize YOU see nothing wrong with these things, but the rational ones who see these comments will certainly get the point.

[semitope]

@SeedsOfHatred lol. Can't understand his arguments huh? I avoided the guy for a while, but it turned out he could handle himself and make sense. Dawkins is an amateur that got spanked by Craig (out of debate) and refuses to debate him. I see nothing bad in mentioning him

[SeedsOfHatred]

@semitope "William Craig"

If ever you had a viable argument, it is now completely gone.