Raw footage of an interview between Oxford professor Richard Dawkins and Oxford theologian Alister McGrath that - due to time constraints - never made it into the final cut of Dawkins’ Root of All Evil? documentary.
It certainly shows Dawkins in a different light than his usual, chopped down and edited video personae. He genuinely wrestles to grasp McGrath’s worldview, rather than simply dismiss him with some logic kung fu… Its more discussion, in other words, than argument.
As for McGrath, he presents more sophisticated reasoning than the evangelical “God is true because the bible says so… which says God is true…” merry-go-round, but the core principles don’t strike me as fundamentally different from those of his more fanatical, fire-breathing soul mates. Ultimately, what remains is a view of Life that is constrained by nothing, inscrutable in its ways and means, and thus is unable to really explain anything at all.
In science, an unquestioning and unyielding faith in one’s world view - impervious to all counterargument - will mark you off as a crank… In religion, it is the job description of a prophet.
