Dawkins on Science Friday today

[Bikewer]

If you're an NPR fan, Science Friday is a long-running and excellent interview show on all sorts of scientific topics.

They've been advertising Dawkins on today's show.

 

[Foster Zygote]

Thanks for the heads up.

Steven

 

[JLam]

Heard the show, and it was excellent. Dawkins is as elegant as Sagan.

ETA: Link to the audio here. Take a listen:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6210151

 

[Foster Zygote]

Sadly, My local affiliate didn't carry the show. The Columbia station carried it but here in the north-west corner of South Carolina the signal was drowned out by some fundamentalist Christian station. Arrgh! I'll check tomorrow to see if there's a transcript available.

Steven

 

[T'ai Chi]

I wish Dawkins did live debates against ID proponents.

 

[CFLarsen]

I wish Dawkins did live debates against ID proponents.

Why?

 

[Bikewer]

I believe you can listen to almost all NPR programs in streaming-audio format, or podcast.

A point I thought should have been made was when the host was playing clips of the scientist/believer (can't recall the name...) who essentially attributed the "admirable" qualities of human beings to the supernatural.
This is common amongst religious types; altruism, self-sacrifice, and other "good" things must come from God...

Why can't these things just be part of human nature? There is adequate evolutionary basis for altruism, cooperation, and self-sacrifice.

 

[Jekyll]

I wish Dawkins did live debates against ID proponents.

Oh you mean like in that scene from The Root of All Evil..
Dawkins and a preacher in a room.

Preacher bares teeth.
P: Some people think it's stupid to look at something like the eye and to say it came about by pure chance.
D: Who thinks that? No one thinks that the eye came about by chance. Can you tell me the name of one respected evolutionist who thinks that?

Preacher bares teeth again.
P:There you go again with that arrogance.

*Next scene*
Preacher drives up

P: Getorfamylchurch!You'returningmypeopleintomonkeys!I'llhaveyouarrestedfortrespass!

Preacher drives off
Dawkin's voice over: After much deliberation we worked out what he was trying to say...