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AM I ALONE????

“In the summer of 2003, I began filming the series Atheism - A Rough History Of Disbelief. As part of the process, I talked to a number of writers, scientists, historians and philosophers. Having secured their cooperation, I was very embarrassed to find that a large proportion of what went on ended up on the cutting room floor, simply because the series would have lasted 24 hours otherwise.

But as it happens, the BBC agreed with me that the conversations were too interesting to be junked and with these six supplementary programs, they’ve made the extremely unusual decision to go back to the original material and to broadcast, at length, some of the conversations I had - conservations with people such as English biologist Richard Dawkins, the American philosopher Daniel Dennet, the Cambridge theologian Denys Turner, the American playwright Arthur Miller, the English philosopher Colin McGinn, and the American Nobel Prize winning physicist, Steven Weinberg.”

Miller is one of those rare figures found on the BBC for which American television has no adequate counterpart. Miller is a neurologist, author, sculptor, director of theater, opera, and film and long-time BBC writer, producer, director and presenter. Miller is a confident, articulate, and thoughtful presenter capable of drawing engaging ideas out of his interviewees that never derails into the esoteric, muddled, or mundane. In this series, Miller discloses that he is reluctant to call himself an atheist because the term is treated as being largely synonymous with antitheist, whereas he simply never believed in God and never understood why anyone else did either, but has rarely gone out of his way to profess his disbelief.

The Atheism Tapes is the thoughtful kind of intellectual discourse rarely seen on American television. Host Jonathan Miller and his learned guests provide wide-ranging discussions in and around the topic of Atheism. While I would much prefer to have seen this released together with Atheism - A Rough History Of Disbelief, it works as a standalone effort.

The Atheism Tapes is recommended to viewers interested in viewing top-notch intellectual discourse generally, and is highly recommended to viewers specifically interested in Atheism.

Read the entire review by Chris Neilson here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33376/atheism-tapes/?___rd=1

Jonathan Miller does a great job in exploring the minds of Daniel Dennett, Denys Turner, Richard Dawkins, Colin McGinn, Arthur Miller and Steven Weinberg. Each man brought a different perspective to the topic of atheism, and how they feel about religion. Such diversity of views, yet unifying, gives you an exclusive understanding of the topic. Nowhere else will you find such intriguing interviews. I applaud Jonathan Miller for the ability to “herd cats” in such harmonic manner in which he was able to capture the viewers attention. I was unable to stop, with each ending I wanted more. Once it was over I realized that knowledge is the most unifying power that we, the humans, posses. It was an absolute pleasure to immerse my own mind into a collective pot of views that these interviews brought forth.

Classic! For it will give you a new perspective on the world, and the way your view your own self. You haven’t seen anything unless you’ve seen the Atheism Tapes.