Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny—The New Atheists’ Speculative “Science”

One of the most hilarious shows on the internet stars Richard Dawkins playing himself back in the early days when he was ascending the first few rungs of the ladder to fame and fortune. With some updates, this early DVD has now become part of a series that is being offered to every secondary school in the UK. Looking surprisingly youthful, even boyish, in this early video, the star steps onto the stage and faces a rather small audience surrounded by numerous props including prehistoric creatures, a huge take-apart plastic eye, and a model of “Mount Improbable” made famous by Dawkins’s book by that name. It is amazing how precisely the model shows the various hazards on this totally imaginary “mount,” depicting the tortuous upward path of natural selection from a single cell to man.