tuco wrote:Allow me be skeptical that anything useful can be said on death and the meaning of life, but I did not know Mr Dawkins is such a stud

tuco wrote:Hmm true, edutainment is useful too. Would you mind helping me with vocabulary here, Cito?

tuco wrote:Let me rephrase then.

Allow me be skeptical that Mr Dawkins can teach me something about death and the meaning of life, but I did not know he is such a stud

But its not funny anymore, if it ever was, right?

If there is no God watching us, why be good? Richard Dawkins examines sin.

He asks whether the old religious rules about what is right and wrong are helpful and explores what science can tell us about how to be good.

Dawkins journeys from riot-torn inner city London to America's Bible Belt, building a powerful argument that religion's absolutist moral codes fuel lies and guilt.

He finds the most extreme example in a Paris plastic surgery clinic that specialises in making Muslim brides appear to be virgins once again.

But what can science and reason tell us about morality? Through encounters with lemurs, tango dancers, the gay rights campaigner Matthew Parris and the scientist Steven Pinker, Dawkins investigates the deeper roots of moral behaviour in our evolutionary past.

He explores the rituals that surround mating and the science of disgust and taboo. Drawing on crime data and insights from neuroscience, he argues that our evolved senses of reason and empathy appear to be making us more and more moral, even as religious observance declines.

70 mins, Monday 15 October, More 4

Source: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sex- ... /episode-2

In a television first, he has his entire genome sequenced to reveal the genetic indicators of how he himself may die.

tuco wrote:I am sorry, but this is the 3rd thread about it. Cmon ..

Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life

10pm, More 4

Debut of a new series in which Richard Dawkins undertakes a sort of imaginary tour of his ideal world – one in which humanity has forsaken the worship of unanswerable gods who don't seem to like us much, and committed itself to building a world founded entirely on reason. Dawkins confronts the common – and altogether wrongheaded – belief that without religion there can be no morality, asking whether science can indeed provide a basis for an ethical life. The first instalment of his journey takes him from inner-city London to America's Bible belt. AM

infiniteentropy wrote:If you've not already seen the adverts.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sex-death-and-the-meaning-of-life

If there is no God watching us, why be good?

Richard Dawkins examines sin. He asks whether the old religious rules about what is right and wrong are helpful and explores what science can tell us about how to be good.

Dawkins journeys from riot-torn inner city London to America's Bible Belt, building a powerful argument that religion's absolutist moral codes fuel lies and guilt.

He finds the most extreme example in a Paris plastic surgery clinic that specialises in making Muslim brides appear to be virgins once again.

But what can science and reason tell us about morality? Through encounters with lemurs, tango dancers, the gay rights campaigner Matthew Parris and the scientist Steven Pinker, Dawkins investigates the deeper roots of moral behaviour in our evolutionary past.

He explores the rituals that surround mating and the science of disgust and taboo. Drawing on crime data and insights from neuroscience, he argues that our evolved senses of reason and empathy appear to be making us more and more moral, even as religious observance declines.