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Atheists & Agnostics

RussBLib

(9,666 posts) Thu May 14, 2015, 08:56 AM May 2015

Richard Dawkins is the next guest on Star Talk May 18

on the NatGeo channel.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/startalk/

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Richard Dawkins is the next guest on Star Talk May 18 (Original Post) RussBLib May 2015 OP

Thanks for the heads-up! n/t. bvf May 2015 #1

They can discuss if edhopper May 2015 #2

a bit disappointing RussBLib May 2015 #3

It was a lame apologist crap fest. PassingFair May 2015 #4

bvf

(6,604 posts)

1. Thanks for the heads-up! n/t.

Reply to RussBLib (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2015, 09:03 AM

May 2015

edhopper

(34,810 posts)

2. They can discuss if

Reply to RussBLib (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2015, 10:55 AM

May 2015

NDT is really an atheist or not.

Just kidding, I'll be watching.

RussBLib

(9,666 posts)

3. a bit disappointing

Reply to RussBLib (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2015, 03:42 PM

May 2015

I guess I thought that Dyson would show the entire Dawkins interview, but that's not the format Star Talk TV is using.

Dyson brings on two guests and they discuss snips of the actual interview.

In this case, there was a Jesuit priest and a comic with Dyson, and the priest just made one nebulous, all encompassing comment after another, in most cases irrefutable.

Example: Dyson says that the universe does not really have to be fully understood. And so of course the priest comes back with, "And God does not have to be fully understood" of something like that. Bullshit.

Dyson definitely comes off as a freethinker, but I wanted to see the whole Dawkins interview. I guess the only way to hear it would be to listen to the podcast.

PassingFair

(22,437 posts)

4. It was a lame apologist crap fest.

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #3)

Fri May 22, 2015, 09:40 AM

May 2015

Tyson acted like an impressionable teenager in the talk with the (silent) comedian and the priest.

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