God Strikes Back (3/5) - Richard Dawkins

Third (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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[samuelphillippi]

Richard Dawkins is the living paragon of reason and critical thought I wish all humans would look up to. He isn't perfect, never even claims to be, but always seeks the truth. Rejoice when you are proven wrong, for now you won't spread falsehood.

[thelws]

I loled so hard when he said that "gravity is a fact. anyone who disagrees can jump out of a window"

[Lucassandro25]

@Athrun000 well its good to know that schools in China aren't biased towards religions but are rather on the side of science, unlike in the USA.

[Athrun000]

I'm a Chinese and I haven't had a single science teacher that do no believe in evolution.

[MysteryoftheGods]

Um, Mr. Dawkins. If magic carpets aren't real..please explain Aladin. You can't, therefore evidence that God is real. Praise Krishna! (Yes, this is a joke :/)

[MysteryoftheGods]

Thumbs up if you tried the pin trick when you saw it on here <.<

[Frank289100]

@biorn1973 The bible tells you beware of strong drink.

[Frank289100]

@biorn1973 How could they stop it. They were Queers themselves. Queers raped those kids.

[Frank289100]

@EBTcraft15 So if corrupt cops use a police department to manifest there corruption that means the whole structure of having law enforcement is no good.

[biorn1973]

@Frank289100 ....where have you been for the last 20 years? The church knew about the rapes. They chose to ignore it. The man they now call pope, had as a part of his last job, to hide the accusations. This is all out there. Not even the church denies it. So to conclude: in a weird way, catholisism accepts homosexuals as long as they are preists, and the church accept the raping och children.

You can blame the HOMOSEXUALS (why capitals?) how much you want. the lame is on the church.

[Frank289100]

@biorn1973 As for the Catholic priests who raped those children they were all HOMOSEXUALS. Years back mother and father expected the man to get married and have children and to carry on the family name. Since the Catholic church doesn't allow marriage your HOMOSEXUALS in order to avoid marriage used the church as a venue to escape marriage. Over the years HOMOSEXUAL men infested the walls of the Catholic church and used church walls for there perverted lifestyle. Church was innocent.

[SeedsOfHatred]

@Frank289100 And that is the deluded explanation I was looking for.

Do tell me; why then, have I not raped my sister? Why have I not murdered anyone? Why have the atheists I know not done any of these things?

People are perfectly capable of being moral without your God to tell them to do so. And if they're not, then that really says something about what kind of person they were to begin with.