Another Dawkins interview
Half-hour interview, for the BBC, because it’s easier than writing something interesting myself.
It keeps amazing me people continue to claim he’s rude or hateful. Crawley comes off as more of a twat than he probably is, but he asks some of the remarkably dim-witted questions many religious people have been asking, some of which Dawkins hadn’t really addressed explicitly before, perhaps.
Either way, the way Dawkins dealt with the fine-tuned universe claim is somewhat disappointing. What he says is correct and technically sufficient, but not nearly as crushing as it could be. Remind me to write about that in the near future. I’ve touched on it before, but I didn’t think I needed to go into detail. Apparently I was wrong.
(Via RichardDawkins.net.)
Ronin said,
February 28th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hey Koen,
Kudos on your blog, it’s an interesting read. I just watched the video above (prior to visiting your blog), and I would be very interested in your write-up of the fine-tuning argument for the universe. As an atheist of only about 3 years (it took awhile to break free), I’m still wrapping my head around the fine details of that one…
Either way, thanks again.
Ronin
Coren said,
February 28th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Excellent interview, on both sides of the table. I especially liked how Dawkins responded to that final question. That may actually convince some atheist-haters that atheists aren’t that evil and narrow-minded after all.