Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Atheism Tapes with Denys Turner

Jonathan Miller, one of the brightest minds of our time, together with BBC created a series of six interviews in 2004 that aired under the title of "The Atheism Tapes." The interviews were compiled from material left over from Miller's 2003 series entitled, "A Rough History of Disbelief."
All of the "Atheism Tapes" interviews were conducted with well-known atheists, except for the one with Denys Turner, Chair of Theology at Cambridge, and that's the one we will view and discuss this coming Sunday.
The Turner interview begins on the point of "why is there something instead of nothing," but along the way it reels across atheistic fundamentalism and dips into questions that are genuinely appropriate to ask and disingenuously wise avoid. At times the point of the conversation vanishes maddeningly into the thin ethereal air of philosophical obscurity, but in the end, it lands squarely and satisfyingly in pragmatic reality. It is a difficult conversation to follow, but it utimately resolves at a point happily within our reach. If you'd like a preview, click here.
This'll be good. I promise.

Please join us at 9:45. We'll be delighted to see you. And remember, wonderful childcare is provided.

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