The Atheism Tapes is a BBC TV documentary series by Jonathan Miller. The material that makes up the series was originally filmed for another series, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, but was too verbose for inclusion. Instead, the BBC agreed to create The Atheism Tapes as a supplementary series of six programs, each consisting of an extended interview with one contributor. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Dr Jonathan Wolfe Miller (born 21 July 1934) is a British physician, theater and opera director and television presenter. ...
Colin McGinn (born 1950) is a British philosopher at Rutgers University. ... Steven Weinberg at Harvard University Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... Arthur Miller in his later years Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. ... Dawkins is the holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. ... Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942) is a prominent American philosopher. ...
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The Atheism Tapes The official BBC page for the series
Atheism is that system of thought which is formally opposed to theism.
Thus, defined as a doctrine, or theory, or philosophy formally opposed to theism, atheism can only signify the teaching of those schools, whether cosmological or moral, which do not include God either as a principle or as a conclusion of their reasoning.
From whichever cause this negative form of atheism proceeds, it issues in agnosticism or materialism; although the agnostic is, perhaps, better classed under this head than the materialist.
Atheism was once new, exciting, and liberating, and for those reasons held to be devoid of the vices of the faiths it displaced.
Atheism is wedded to philosophical modernity, and both are aging gracefully in the cultural equivalent of an old folks' home.
Atheism arises mainly through a profound sense that religious ideas and values are at least inferior to, and possibly irreconcilable with, the best moral standards and ideals of human culture.
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