On yesterday’s Real Time, Bill Maher got the chance to interview Richard Dawkins via satellite. Maher does a good job interviewing Dawkins, who normally gets little respect from his interviewers in the states.
Most interviews of Dawkins on American tv are horrible; the worst one was on The O’Reilly Factor. It is like Dawkins is trying to argue with a 2 year old.
Anyways, check out the interview below. For those of you that have read the God Delusion, Dawkins doesn’t bring up any new big ideas, but the combo of Maher and Dawkins is funny. Dawkins does bring up a few neat tidbits. He upgrades his level of atheism from a 6/7 to a 6.9/7, and he goes on to call Francis Collins unintelligent. He admits that he plans to have a tape recorder by his side on his deathbed to debunk anyone that might claim he becomes religious there.
Thanks for posting this. Maher’s show is what I miss most since I canceled my HBO. I think Dawkins also makes a great point correcting Maher on his description of Collins as the “discoverer of the human genome.” Our culture is so obsessed with “hero” worship (an offshoot of a messiah complex?) that we often lose sight of the fact that major advances most often occur not based on some genius insight but from the hard work of teams of scientists and a foundation of previous investigations … not to mention the technological advances that made such lines of inquiry even possible.
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Very interesting! I love Dawkins and wish everyone would read his book/s as they have changed my life. I have always been a atheist but have never had the tools to stand my ground… now i do.
Very interesting – thanks for posting the video. wonder where on scale I am. 6.8?