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The Blind Watchmaker: Film Analysis
Dawkins first appeared on television in 1986 in a documentary called Nice Guys Finish First. After that, he was asked to film in a second documentary called The Blind Watchmaker; both documentaries were based off of content from his first two books. Dawkins was later asked to make many other documentaries, while also accepting many opportunities to debate in public settings. When people think of a naturalist position, or even someone in popular cultural who professes to be an atheist, people often think of Richard Dawkins. In 2006 he came out with a book called The God Delusion; which is now the book that he is best known for. The God Delusion lays out the reasons why Dawkins believes God is not real and evil. Just as there are no …show more content…
If there is something that appears to life beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope eventually to understand it and embrace it within the natural.
Dawkins, being a naturalist, does not believe in any deity––which means the universe is all there is. In The Blind Watchmaker, Dr. Dawkins comments:
To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing, for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer. You have to say something like ‘God was always there’, and if you allow yourself that kind of lazy way out, you might as well say ‘DNA was always there’, or ‘Life was always there’, and be done with it.
Again he says, “The universe we observe had…no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.” Which also answers the next question: what is Dawkins view of external reality? In essence, Richard Dawkins answers that he believes the universe is all there is. Dawkins states there is “nothing beyond the natural, physical world.” He is a proponent of what scientist call “The Big Bang
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