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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on January 19, 2010 at 10:45am

Got to love the combination. Reasonable honesty in the first half of his statement and utter amphigory in the second.

Permalink Reply by John Secular Smith on January 19, 2010 at 7:59pm

Wonderful encapsulation of the problem of evil.

Permalink Reply by leon coetzer on January 20, 2010 at 1:32am

And the we have an "Act of God" this allows the allmighty to misbehave whenever it suits the spirit

Permalink Reply by Marc Draco on January 20, 2010 at 2:58am

Why is the BBC wasting public money on this ****? That's why I want to know.

Permalink Reply by John Secular Smith on January 20, 2010 at 5:45am

Okay, am I missing something? The article just appears to be a "problem of evil" summary with all the silly religious attempts to get out of it...and this guy refutes them all. What's wrong with that?

Permalink Reply by Jo Jerome on January 20, 2010 at 9:06pm

Why is the BBC wasting public money on this ****? That's why I want to know.

Have no idea whatsoever. But giving BBC the benefit of the doubt, if I wanted to plant seeds of Atheistic doubt in people's minds, I'd know full well that just writing about Dawkins won't be preaching to anyone but the choir.

But if I'm writing 'about Christianity,' making sure to ask questions like "Why does God allow natural disaster?" complete with religious leaders who can not answer the question, that will reach more minds.

Permalink Reply by Michael on January 20, 2010 at 9:14pm

Here's a recording of the interview with the Archbishop of York. It will make you cringe. The silly old fart is just stringing words together, one after the other, with not even the slightest attempt to make it sound sensible.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8458000/8458611.stm

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on January 20, 2010 at 9:23pm