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31-10-05, 19:02
Mon 31 Oct, 20:00 pm - 21:00 BBC 2
Shadows of Doubt
The first programme in this series starts in New York, where, in a post 9/11 world, religion seems to be such a powerful and potentially dangerous political influence. Jonathan Miller is prompted to investigate the origins of his own disbelief. He looks back into his own Jewish childhood and his early years as a sceptical medical student .
With the help of philosophers, like Daniel Dennett, historians, like Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, scientists like Richard Dawkins and writers, like Arthur Miller, Jonathan sets out on a journey to understand what we mean by belief itself, to uncover the origins of the human impulse to create religion and to find out who were the very first atheists in human history. He discovers that 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosophers expressed doubts about the supernatural but that when Christianity succeeded in taking over the Roman Empire, it also closed down the great Greek schools of Philosophy and ushered in what became known as the Dark Ages.
Vast leuker dan de NL poging tot humor een tijdje terug.
Shadows of Doubt
The first programme in this series starts in New York, where, in a post 9/11 world, religion seems to be such a powerful and potentially dangerous political influence. Jonathan Miller is prompted to investigate the origins of his own disbelief. He looks back into his own Jewish childhood and his early years as a sceptical medical student .
With the help of philosophers, like Daniel Dennett, historians, like Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, scientists like Richard Dawkins and writers, like Arthur Miller, Jonathan sets out on a journey to understand what we mean by belief itself, to uncover the origins of the human impulse to create religion and to find out who were the very first atheists in human history. He discovers that 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosophers expressed doubts about the supernatural but that when Christianity succeeded in taking over the Roman Empire, it also closed down the great Greek schools of Philosophy and ushered in what became known as the Dark Ages.
Vast leuker dan de NL poging tot humor een tijdje terug.