I watched the first episode today. I thought he was kind of harsh with the English school kids. His line of reasoning to those kids, while it makes perfect sense to me, is a little rough for schoolchildren with a camera on them
And I know it's Dawkins and that religion is never going to be far off, he could have told the story without all the yakking about "Darwin's theory is way better than any religious story". I didn't think religion had to be brought up at all. He was explaining a theory to "laymen" and it just seemed to complicate matters.
I guess, though, that in the context of the time that Darwin was doing his thing, it does make sense to explain what most everyone else was believing to be true.
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