A fascinating interview of the former Vatican Astronomer George Coyne.  He gives an entertaining, insightful and enlightening interview to Richard Dawkins about what God and science mean to him and in the end it all came down to his faith. This is the full uncut interview with Father George Coyne which was omitted from Richard Dawkins’ television program “The Genius of Charles Darwin” for Channel 4 in the UK. See more videos like this at
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To what degree should religion have a place in politics? In a debate that sows divisions both within and among nations, some argue for a secular public domain that clearly separates the two; others uphold a deep connection. Do religious values increasingly drive politics? Is the “separation of church and state” strictly a western notion? Since religion and politics are often intertwined and indistinguishable, what is “religious” and what is “political”? K. Anthony Appiah, Professor
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Richard Dawkins talks to the Darwin, Humanism and Science Day Conference (6 Jun 2009) on the subject “There is grandeur in this view of life”. This talk reflects the final chapter of his book, The Greatest Show on Earth. Thanks to Adservio Digital for recording the event and producing this video.

The Graduate Center at CUNY Journalist Susan Jacoby, philosopher Colin McGinn, and theologian Denys Turner explore questions such as: Is humanism another kind of religion? Is it religion’s evolutionary future, rather than just one of several alternatives? What light does the recent scientific study of religion throw on these possibilities? How do the new humanists compare to the new atheists? Can an atheist identity be shaped by a positive ethic, or must it be primarily
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Panellists: Christopher Hitchens, author and radical atheist; Father Frank Brennan, Jesuit intellectual and social activist; Waleed Aly, politics lecturer; Sally Warhaft, author and founding editor of The Monthly; and Anne Henderson, biographer and deputy director of The Sydney Institute. The presence of Christopher Hitchens, the notoriously sharp-tongued commentator and scourge of everything religious, ensured that this turbulent and enthralling episode of Q&A would be largely about God. His book God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything set
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