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Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Dimbleby on the Big Debate BBC
January 29, 2008
Jonathan Dimbleby and a panel of experts come together to debate the controversial subject of religion in Britain’s schools.
The role of religion in education is a subject rarely out of the headlines. Despite Britain’s multi-faith society, schools are still required to include a collective act of worship of a Christian nature, while faith schools and religious academies have raised fears about community cohesion and covert selection.
Claims by some religious educationalists that faith is the best way to teach moral values is challenged by others in schools who believe religious morality to be outdated and dangerous.
Dimbleby is joined by Professor Richard Dawkins, Schools Select Committee chairman Barry Sheerman MP, and a multi-faith studio
audience.
Full video can be found here: http://richarddawkins.net/
Duration : 0:9:58
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how he do that …
how he do that doesn’t make his argument less valid. Listen to his argument and logic, try not to shift the focus or make that personal.
do you really think …
do you really think Dawkins brought his children up teaching them the beliefs of the various religions and not imposing his own belief of evolution on them, permitting them to make up their own mind?
HERP DERP IM SO …
HERP DERP IM SO BRITISH I THE QUEEN
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feel free to …
feel free to explain to me how one does interpret the bible, it seems that alot of people have a great many different ways of doing so. the confederates invoked the word of god via leviticus to support slavery but, now christians insist slavery is wrong according to the teachings of jesus. so who’s wrong here?
@honkyxadonis Good …
@honkyxadonis Good job on showing that you dont understand how to interpret the Bible. I applaud you!
You think that …
You think that ghettos didn’t exist in England until Muslims moved there? Most of the heroin addicts and aids carriers are English not Muslim. We wouldn’t have had the British invasion music scene here in US if it wasn’t for English ghettos. The Beatles were considered ghetto people until they got famous. Southbroadway, Birmingham, and many more. In fact, crime, prison,poverty and torture were much worse in England long before Muslims ever migrated to the country.
Wow, at 4:00 the …
Wow, at 4:00 the bishop starts out with a genetic fallay claiming that because education started with the church of england therefore it should stay with CoE. When the theist side starts with a bald faced fallacy, maybe we should stop listening to them…
that’s inherent …
that’s inherent when you talking about magic.
“I’m happy for …
“I’m happy for people to have their faith and believe this god or that god did it as long as the faith schools show that evolution is what the evidence shows and not biblical creationism.”
So as long as science hasn’t fully unveiled a part of reality, you can fill it up with magical beings and other bogus ideas based on no evidence whatsoever? Thats the message?
Please spare me…
Please spare me…
Dawkins is a lot …
Dawkins is a lot better in debates than on bicycles. deadly, man.
Deuteronomy 22:11 ‘ …
Deuteronomy 22:11 ‘Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven’ behold the devine word of god
I think that all …
I think that all religions are peaceful, and it would be peace if the majority of the countries had the same faith.
but , that will NEVER EVEREVEREVEREVER, happen so let us all just do the easiest , and believe in science.
you can’t prove God …
you can’t prove God is there but you believe in him? That is exactly why I find it so hard to believe. I mean your putting a lot of faith in something that is just as real as Santa Claus or pink unicorns. I mean if you have faith they are real then it makes it real? Stupid.
Which inherently …
Which inherently proves its futility and erroneous nature. Well played.
Try “stupidity”.
Try “stupidity”.
@FindleOfLoathing …
@FindleOfLoathing well magic basically sums up what their belief is about.
Im not some kind of …
Im not some kind of intelectual but i looked at William Lane Craig’s debates and now i’m messed up. He has really good arguements i think. I gonna read some more about it but for now i think there is a God.
@Gardsmaw What a …
@Gardsmaw What a convenient dodge. You’ve stacked the deck so you can’t lose and have turned a valid question about the real universe into an unfalsifiable assertion. Anything built on faith is even worse than a house built on sand. Sand may be an unsturdy foundation, but at least it has the virtue of existing. You’ve built a house on a wish. This is the delusional thinking of a child.
@stupidb8888 You …
@stupidb8888 You missed out Lemming psychology
And you wonder why …
And you wonder why we call you delusional?
1) Religion is …
1) Religion is spelled Religion, not religeon.
2)Religion is built around faith. The idea is not to ‘prove’ the existence of God, but to only have faith in him.
religion can be …
religion can be summed up in one word, magic.
It wasn’t very good …
It wasn’t very good during it either.
1945 saw the very first use of The Bomb
I wonder what evil country would use such a device against hundreds of thousands of civillians?