Sunday 18 November 2007

More on Dawkins etc.

Glancing at Richard Dawkins' website, I discovered this - of which I knew nothing. The Atheist Alliance International (AAI) was set up by Dawkins to accumulate the leading thinkers of atheist thought, including Dan Dennet and Christopher Hitchens, of whom I spoke briefly with regard to his book, god is not Great. Although the videos posted there are lengthy and visually cumbersome, it's certainly worth hearing the speeches in their entirety as they present their philosophies in conjunction with one another - something we wouldn't appreciate by reading the books individually. Note that this is a piece from Dawkins' US mission, so naturally, we're prone to the emphatic applause of the easily entertained Americans.