Mon 18 Jun 2007
Dawkins / McGrath Interview
Posted by Darren under Apologetics , Atheism , Faith , God , Movies , Philosophy , SkepticsYesterday I stumbled upon this interview, which was not included in Richard Dawkins' "Root of All Evil?" movie. Here Dr. Dawkins interviews Dr. Alister McGrath, who currently teaches at Oxford University, the same school as Dr. Dawkins. Dr. McGrath has earned two PHDs from Oxford, one in molecular biophysics, and the other in theology. Here it the interview (provided by Dr. Dawkins himself) in its entirety:
You can also download the video in .MOV form (88mb)
Dr. Dawkins comes off relatively well in the video. Although he refers to some of his critics as "fleas" on his website, he does seem to have a certain respect for Dr. McGrath. It was refreshing to see an exchange between a prominent atheist and theist done in a respectful manner, but I would have much rather seen a real discussion between the two, instead of Dr. Dawkins posing all the questions (and his own views) with Dr. McGrath continually forced to be on the defensive.
I must comment that, although I thought Dr. McGrath handled the interview quite well, I don't entirely agree with some of his responses. There were just a couple times where, as I watched and listened, I thought "No, no! I think I have a better reply than that!" While it no doubt seems rather presumptuous of me to disagree with someone like McGrath who holds two PHDs and has published dozens of books and academic articles, nevertheless I'll try to make a few follow-up posts to this entry where I give my own responses to some of Dr. Dawkins' questions.
Related Reading:
- The God Solution: A Reply to the God Delusion – One of my professors wrote this upcoming book (release date July 10 2007) that proposes a response to Dr. Dawkins' popular book The God Delusion.
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December 18th, 2013 at 2:47 pm
Almost all of whatever you say happens to be astonishingly precise and it makes me wonder why I hadn't looked at this in this light previously. Your piece truly did turn the light on for me as far as this topic goes.
December 22nd, 2013 at 6:58 pm
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