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Demokratische Religion
487 Demokratische Unterhaltungsshow
Is Sience The New Religoon
An interview with renowned atheist Richard Dawkins on whether
religion is a force for good or evil.
Fanaticism, fundamentalism,
superstition and ignorance. Religion is getting a bad press these days. Much
of the conflict in the world, from the Middle East to Nigeria and Myanmar,
is often blamed on religion. But how are things from a different
perspective? Defenders of religion claim Adolf Hitler was an atheist.
Communism under Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao Zedong banned religion, but
also massacred millions. And science brought incredible and amazing advances,
but also pollution and the atomic bomb. A critic of religious
dogmatism, Professor Richard Dawkins revolutionised genetics in 1976 with
the publication of The Selfish Gene, which explained how evolution
takes place at the genetic level. He has since written 12 more bestsellers,
including The God Delusion which sold millions of copies, was
translated into more than 30 languages, and catapulted him to the position
of the world's foremost atheist. Mehdi Hasan interviews evolutionary
biologist Richard Dawkins at the Oxford Union and asks: Is religion a force
for good or evil? Can it co-exist with science? Is science the new religion?
And why if god does not exist, is religion so persistent? ....
Dawkins on religion can be seen from Saturday, December 22, at the
following times GMT: Saturday: 2000; Sunday: 1200; Monday: 0100; Tuesday:
0600.
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