Dawkins kan han

Richard Dawkins, en skeptiker av stora mått, en man jag beundrar, för dagbok under sin nuvarande bokturné (The God Illusion) i det stora landet USA. Här ett klipp skojsigt någe nog.

”Back to the hotel for a late night phone interview with Alan Colmes on Fox Radio. This interview was live, and there were phone-ins at the end. Alan Colmes himself is said to be the only decent individual at Fox. I have no reason to doubt that, except that he seems to have picked up a Fox habit of asking the next question, a fixed number of seconds after the previous one, regardless of whatever may have been said in between.”

Han hade också en åsikt om reklam i radio.

”I soon picked up the technique of how to handle this style of questioning, and the time passed quickly except for the commercial breaks which seemed INTERMINABLE, and were accompanied by a painful noise like crackling static which fortunately disappeared during the brief intervals of actual program. I swear that Fox station must devote more time to commercials than to actual content. Maybe the audience can’t tell the difference.”

Och en dust med man som ringde in med vad han tyckte det ultimata beviset för Guds existens.

”The phone-in characters were pretty much as you might expect. One said that if he didn’t believe in God he would have no reason not to rape and kill. Alan Colmes bullied him into admitting that he actually WOULD go and kill his neighbour if he was persuaded that God didn’t exist. Not a good advertisement for religion. If Alan Colmes had let me, I would have made an attempt to explain patiently to the man that morals don’t have to come from religion, but I didn’t get the chance. Colmes was probably right: patient explanation would have been wasted on him. I wonder whether his neighbour was listening. ”

Så slutar dagens lektion.

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