The banal celebrity-driven dross that is modern TV won’t be quite as painful as usual tonight. Because two real celebrities combine in one proper programme.
The Genius Of Charles Darwin is a three-part documentary by another scientific powerhouse, Professor Richard Dawkins.
The eminent biologist (and advocate of atheism) says: “This series is about perhaps the most powerful idea ever to occur to a human mind – evolution by natural selection. I want to persuade you that evolution offers a richer view of life than any religious story.”
The series is unlikely to change many minds where religion is concerned. Most of us are brainwashed into religion as children and few change course. I am proud to say I was one of the few. I was a Sunday School swot and fervent believer until I started to really think about it when I was about 16.
With faith schools proliferating, I just wish there could be a positive movement for secular schools, primary and secondary. Where Darwinism, evolution, and the unlikely possibility of supernatural beings is discussed every day. Where children aren’t expected to have an imaginary friend in the sky. Where the wonders of the Earth and nature are enough to satisfy the thinking mind. Where there doesn’t have to be a reason for being.
Why should there be?
This TV series should be compulsory for all growing children. And to those who retort, ‘And so should the Bible/Koran/Whatever’ … well, it already is.
It was for me.
These days I prefer evidence.
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