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General => Media => Topic started by: SSY on September 07, 2010, 01:30:33 AM

Title: BBC Program- The Case for God?
Post by: SSY on September 07, 2010, 01:30:33 AM
Did anyone catch this? Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks sequentially debates 4 "critics" on various subjects around religion.

Personally, I thought it was terrible. The piece was cast as a heroic Rabbi defending himself (he use the phrase "under siege from atheists and sceptics"), which I found slightly inappropriate. The arguments exchanged in the first two debates were in my opinion, weak, non contentious, and hardly critical. Professor Colin Blakemore gave a good account of himself, but there was not much rejoinder except outright denial. The last section was simply a standard question of evil debate brought by Professor Lisa Jardine, predictably, no answers were satisfactorily given.

Anyone else see this? It is on iplayer for those of us in the UK.
Title: Re: BBC Program- The Case for God?
Post by: karadan on September 07, 2010, 12:19:30 PM
I shall watch that at lunch and report back.
Title: Re: BBC Program- The Case for God?
Post by: Dretlin on September 07, 2010, 03:14:34 PM
Quite surprised I missed this!

Thank you for posting. I would hope this program is part of a series because I ended up being not that satisfied.
Title: Re: BBC Program- The Case for God?
Post by: Asmodean on September 07, 2010, 04:45:30 PM
For a BBC product... I'm unimpressed. Very unimpressed.
Title: Re: BBC Program- The Case for God?
Post by: SSY on September 07, 2010, 10:18:27 PM
Thank god, I thought I was being overly critical.
Title: Re: BBC Program- The Case for God?
Post by: PoopShoot on September 08, 2010, 12:17:21 AM
Quote from: "SSY"Thank god,
You're welcome.