A ground-breaking series that will challenge your basic beliefs

In these off-the-record interviews, playwright, filmmaker and self-described atheist Jonathan Miller filmed conversations with six of today’s leading men of letters and science: the biologist and New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, distinguished playwright Arthur Miller, theologian Denys Turner and Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who discuss their personal intellectual journeys and offer an illuminating analysis of nontheism from a wide range of perspectives.

The Atheism Tapes: Denys Turner

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The Atheism Tapes: Denys Turner

Release Year: 2008

Duration: 30 min

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In these off-the-record interviews, playwright, filmmaker and self-described atheist Jonathan Miller filmed conversations with six of today’s leading men of letters and science: the biologist and New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, distinguished playwright Arthur Miller, theologian Denys Turner and Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who discuss their personal intellectual journeys and offer an illuminating analysis of nontheism from a wide range of perspectives.

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Posted 04/04/09 by zar

The idea of a “giver” doesn’t really solve anything. So you take the world as a gift instead of as a given, ergo there is a giver. Well, then, you’re just taking the giver as a given, unless there’s a meta-giver. The universe can’t be just there and needs a creator, but then you’re left with a creator that’s just there. Then what? It’s like the old Hindu model of the universe: the earth is held up by elephants, which are held up by a big turtle. What’s that turtle sitting on, then? Um… another turtle. It’s turtles all the way down.