Q&A: Pell vs Dawkins - April 9, Easter Monday night

By DAVID KNOX - TV TONIGHT - AUSTRALIA
Updated: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:19:05 UTC

On Easter Monday night Q & A will host a two-man debate between Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell and outspoken, British atheist Richard Dawkins.

In Australia to attend a global atheist convention, Dawkins describes himself as an evolutionary biologist, author and militant atheist. He became popular around the world in 1976 with his book The Selfish Gene but is best known for his global best seller The God Delusion.

Last appearing on Q&A in March 2010, Dawkins is uncompromising, provocative and controversial. He contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith qualifies as a delusion.

Q&A Adverntures in Democracy- ABC 1

Ben Child - Guardian 37 Comments

Javier Krahe prosecuted for 'offending religious feelings' after 1978 short film was broadcast on Spanish TV

No blood on the carpet. How...

Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net 174 Comments

[Journalists] seem to feel let down when they discover that the real people aren't anything like the way they so relentlessly portray us; as if, since they've gone to the trouble of inventing extravagant caricatures of us, we should at least have the decency to live up to them in real life.
Also in Polish

'Gay cure' group's London bus adverts...

- - BBC Comments

An advertising campaign backed by a Christian group which has been described as anti-gay has been pulled from London buses.

Why Richard Dawkins is still an atheist

Paula Kirby - Washington Post On Faith 108 Comments

[The God Delusion is] absolutely chock-full of things Richard Dawkins really does believe. Which is handy, because it saves everyone the trouble of making them up.

A brutal price still paid for daring to...

Amol Rajan - The Independent 39 Comments

Their assault illustrates the extent to which defenders of religion still dominate our press, the brutal retaliation exacted on clever opponents of faith and the incorrigible stupidity of Sayeeda Warsi's claim about "militant secularism" last week.

The world has forgotten the real...

Michael Hanlon - The Telegraph 33 Comments

At one point, governments in Europe, including ours, were offering to fly expats home from places where the radiation levels were lower than the natural background count in Aberdeen or Cornwall.