Conversation between Richard Dawkins and Bishop Harries
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Stumble ThisBattle of the Oxford heavyweights over evolution turns into a bit of a love-up. Adam Rutherford keeps score
It's not often you see two heavyweights limbering up for a prize fight among the dinosaurs of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Even rarer when the warm-up is set to the strains of Haydn.
Last night Richard Dawkins and Lord Harries of Pentregarth (formerly Bishop of Oxford) did just that. They revisited the great evolution debate between Thomas Huxley (who was representing a poorly Darwin) and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in the same location in 1860. Both claimed victory, though the consensus is that Huxley won on points.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/feb/13/dawkins-harries-debate
It's not often you see two heavyweights limbering up for a prize fight among the dinosaurs of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Even rarer when the warm-up is set to the strains of Haydn.
Last night Richard Dawkins and Lord Harries of Pentregarth (formerly Bishop of Oxford) did just that. They revisited the great evolution debate between Thomas Huxley (who was representing a poorly Darwin) and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in the same location in 1860. Both claimed victory, though the consensus is that Huxley won on points.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/feb/13/dawkins-harries-debate
the Q&As are usually the most interesting parts of these, i'd just prefer them to start talks with them and flow from there.