PZ Myers Discussion (5/10) - Richard Dawkins
Buy it now on DVD at: http://richarddawkins.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=60 DURING HIS U.S. TOUR in 2008, Biologist ...
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[Myers] But the thing is things like a campaign to remove In God We Trust from coins catches the media's eye. A campaign to say well, we shouldn't be offering free kosher lunches at extra expense in public schools doesn't. That's not very dramatic. It's not something most people will care about. But telling them oh we want to change the coin, they've got a hook. [Dawkins] Maybe the awareness that it raises is an awareness of pettiness though as we were suggesting a moment ago. [Myers] Well yeah and that's what I am saying, is that the media plays that up. The media would rather publicize the trivial efforts of atheists rather than the substantial ones of people who are primarily secularists. [Dawkins] That' a real danger. In my [Myers] Yes. Oxford College, ...
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[Myers] But the thing is things like a campaign to remove In God We Trust from coins catches the media's eye. A campaign to say well, we shouldn't be offering free kosher lunches at extra expense in public schools doesn't. That's not very dramatic. It's not something most people will care about. But telling them oh we want to change the coin, they've got a hook. [Dawkins] Maybe the awareness that it raises is an awareness of pettiness though as we were suggesting a moment ago. [Myers] Well yeah and that's what I am saying, is that the media plays that up. The media would rather publicize the trivial efforts of atheists rather than the substantial ones of people who are primarily secularists. [Dawkins] That' a real danger. In my [Myers] Yes. Oxford College, ...
