The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog: Richard Dawkins Goes Head to Head With Campus Critics of His Attack on Religion
Richard Dawkins, the University of Oxford biologist, powerful defender of Darwinian evolution, and vehement critic of religion, read from his new book, The God Delusion, last month at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. After the reading, he took questions from the audience. Many of those questions came from students at nearby Liberty University, the Christian institution that was founded by Jerry Falwell.
Some of the proceedings were captured on video by C-Span, and the footage is now available from the YouTube.com.
It was a lively back-and-forth, with most of the audience cheering on Mr. Dawkins as he responds to questions about the origin of morality, the beginning of the universe, and so on. At one point he encourages the Liberty students to transfer to a “proper university.” Mr. Dawkins is also blogging about his book tour.
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