The Red Notebook » atheism http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com The Friends of Charles Darwin blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:41:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dawkins rips Humphrys apart http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2008/05/20080509/ http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2008/05/20080509/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Richard Carter FCD http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2008/05/09/ I caught Richard Dawkins ripping the BBC’s toughest and rudest interviewer apart on Radio 4 this morning. It was great radio. He berrated Jon Humphrys for going too easy on religious interviewees. Towards the end of the three-minute interview, Humphrys (himself an atheist, I believe) clearly realised he didn’t have a leg to stand on. You can listen to the interview in horrible RealPlayer format for the next seven days here.

The interview arose as a result of recent comments made by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the UK’s top Roman Catholic, which lunartalks has commented on.

Curious factoid: Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor is a friend of a friend of a friend of mine. I wonder if he knows Kevin Bacon.

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If atheism is a faith, then not playing chess is a hobby.

I will, no doubt, be stealing that one.

Postscript: It turns out this is a hoary old chestnut (with some versions substituting collecting stamps for playing chess). It’s still very good, though.

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