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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

A better Richard Dawkins interview

Brian Lehrer interviews Richard Dawkins and takes calls.

This only brushes on the topics covered in depth in The book (highly recommended), but still well done. A lot of the typical arguments are brought up like you can't disprove God, intelligent design, evolution as God's tool, big bang theory is a faith, morality, etc.

Much more intelligent than that other interview.

Dawkins does get one thing wrong, however, there are laws in the US prohibiting atheists from holding public office in Arkansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and, of course, Texas.

The Bill of Rights of the Texas Constitution (Article I, Section 4) allows people to be excluded from holding office on religious grounds. An official may be "excluded from holding office" if she/he does not "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being."

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