Watched the above episode of Richard Dawkins new documentary last night - I was not impressed.
Although I agree entirely with Dawkins that Darwin was a genius, and that evolution is one of the most ground breaking and powerful explanatory theories within science, I simply cannot abide his anti-religion rhetoric. Is he not aware of any of the scholarship regarding the interplay between science and faith? Has he not paid any attention to his numerous discussions with people like Alistair McGrath?
Yet again Dawkins produces a polemical program that does nothing to further the debate. I imagine all the internet atheists will be jumping up and down waving their flags whilst the YECS re-double their anti-science efforts. Meanwhile those of us who are actually interested in the subject can do nothing but shake our heads and gear ourselves up for the inevitable pub conversation about how evolution has "disproved" religion... sigh.
