Richard Dawkins v. Bill O’Reilly: Round 2

in Media, Science | October 26th, 2009 10 Comments

Back when Richard Dawkins (Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty) pub­lished The God Delu­sion in 2007, he made a fair­ly unex­pect­ed appear­ance on Bill O’Reil­ly’s show. Quite the con­trast in char­ac­ters. Now that he has pub­lished his lat­est book, The Great­est Show on Earth, it was time for Dawkins to meet up with the bump­tious one again. Here it goes. Watch above.


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  • stephenbarkley says:
    October 27, 2009 at 6:27 am

    Dang. Why does O’Reil­ly insist on speak­ing for believ­ers? It’s akin to the lat­est per­pet­u­al motion machine crack-pot speak­ing for sci­ence.

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  • Alban Fenle says:
    October 27, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    It real­ly comes down to sep­a­ra­tion of state and church, does­n’t it? It is not the respon­si­bil­i­ty of schools to edu­cate believ­ers.

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  • Hanoch says:
    October 28, 2009 at 7:32 am

    The prob­lem is that sci­ence and the­ol­o­gy inevitably con­verge when you dis­cuss the ori­gin of the uni­verse. You sim­ply can­not dis­cuss that sub­ject ful­ly by rul­ing out the pos­si­bil­i­ty that the uni­verse arose from some­thing oth­er than nat­ur­al caus­es.

    It seems the rea­son­able way to deal with this prob­lem in pub­lic school sci­ence class­es is to be clear with the stu­dents that sci­ence deals strict­ly with the nat­ur­al world which can observed through human fac­ul­ties. The stu­dents would be fur­ther advised that though argu­ments and/or evi­dence for super-nat­ur­al caus­es exist, because sci­ence class­es are lim­it­ed strict­ly to nat­ur­al obser­va­tions, those ideas will not be dis­cussed.

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  • hugodom says:
    October 29, 2009 at 6:30 am

    Bill O’Reilly is so ridicu­lous! How this man was a tv show? Only in USA

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  • shellyk says:
    October 31, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    This site is real­ly full of knowl­edge. I have read the entire arti­cle and I am ful­ly sat­is­fied with stephen­barkley that Why does O’Reil­ly insist on speak­ing for believ­ers? It’s akin to the lat­est per­pet­u­al motion machine crack-pot speak­ing for sci­ence.…
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