277305, i wasn't impressed w/ the God Delusion publicity tour either Posted by anoman, Sat Apr-28-07 07:57 AM
but I recently saw this Dawkins talk on youtube & liked it a lot:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1APOxsp1VFw
a much more humble approach - he sticks to conveying the unimaginable scale of the universe science reveals to us, & the limits of our ability to make sense of events occurring on such a scale.
only in the last few minutes does he slip in the atheism thing, but only as a (IMO) quite touching argument about our human need to personify impersonal forces, not by railing against the possible shortcomings or absurdities of religious believers.
I wish the God Delusion (or at least the pub. tour, I didn't actually read it) had been more like this.
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