First published August 5 2008
Richard Dawkins is at it again – trying to wean the non-converted away from religion this time in his examination of The Genius of Charles Darwin, on Channel 4.
In 2006, his brutal and beautifully convincing exegesis The God Delusion tormented those whom Dawkins described as holding “beliefs that flatly contradict demonstrable scientific facts”.
In this vein, the first of Dawkins’ three programmes, aimed to show how we can live without the looming shadow of God, and enjoy a world that rests entirely upon the accuracy of natural selection – the hitherto most important discovery in science since time began. (continue)
