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Monday, November 27, 2006
Dawkins on YouTube
Earlier today the BBC News website reported that videos available online at sites such as YouTube are resulting in people spending less time watching television. Perhaps this is true and it's understandable when you look at the great diversity of entertainment available on the internet as opposed to the 400+ channels of reruns on television.
Of course, the internet like any form of 'open' media is loaded full of all the rubbish that Joe Public feels fit to publish (just look at this blog! *grin*) but there are some great examples of why it is still worth trawling through it to find the jewels that are hidden just around the corner. Last night I came across just such a diamond (part II is here) - a couple of videos of Richard Dawkins doing a book reading at the Randolf-Macon Woman's College, followed by a question and answer session. A part from the fact that I mostly agree with Dawkin's viewpoint on the issues of creationism / intelligent design, these films are definitely worth watching for the sheer brilliance with which Dawkins tramples all over the ridiculous arguments posed to him by various moronic students and lecturers from RMWC and 'Liberty University', the latter of which Dawkins suggests isn't a real university after one of its students suggested that it claims to hold a dinosaur bone that's only 3000 years old. Truly hilarious stuff!!!
Of course, the internet like any form of 'open' media is loaded full of all the rubbish that Joe Public feels fit to publish (just look at this blog! *grin*) but there are some great examples of why it is still worth trawling through it to find the jewels that are hidden just around the corner. Last night I came across just such a diamond (part II is here) - a couple of videos of Richard Dawkins doing a book reading at the Randolf-Macon Woman's College, followed by a question and answer session. A part from the fact that I mostly agree with Dawkin's viewpoint on the issues of creationism / intelligent design, these films are definitely worth watching for the sheer brilliance with which Dawkins tramples all over the ridiculous arguments posed to him by various moronic students and lecturers from RMWC and 'Liberty University', the latter of which Dawkins suggests isn't a real university after one of its students suggested that it claims to hold a dinosaur bone that's only 3000 years old. Truly hilarious stuff!!!
