Okay, Richard Dawkins, whatever, the “Judeo-Christian myths” are just “tucked in there” without “special privilege” as if both to prove that you don’t especially hate them, and to insinuate that they’re not especially important…EXCEPT FOR WHEN YOU SPECIFICALLY REFERENCE THEM IN YOUR BOOK TRAILER WITH YOUR RICHARD DAWKINS SMIRK. It’s like when people tell you that they’re so over their ex and then proceed to talk about them for a half hour. No one believes it.
Also, I don’t know how you can scientifically prove that water wasn’t changed to wine 2,000 years ago. Sure, the sun is empirically NOT a chariot, but also, hey look, there’s the sun! We can examine it and learn about it and deduce that it is certainly not a chariot! You know what I DON’T see lying around in the lab? Two-millenia-old jars of wine that Jesus apparently did not make from water! Isn’t that how science works? Sure, you can’t change water into wine, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t ever happened, right?
Also, which sounds more magical? The sun as a golden chariot that gets driven across the sky, or the sun as a huge ball of hydrogen that is slowly turning into helium that fuels life on earth? Option Two is certainly more sensible and true, but come on, golden chariot all the way!
That said, this sounds like a really interesting book. As evinced by the previous paragraph, I don’t remember how the sun works very well after my astronomy class three years ago, and it would be interesting to be reminded of the process, as well as how people have interpreted that process over the years. But seriously, do you have to be such an ass about the whole thing? Because when this video is over, my main reaction is that regardless of the content of this book, which may be quite good, Richard Dawkins is still being a pompous ass.
