{"id":1054,"date":"2007-04-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/04\/26\/bill-oreilly-interviews-richard-dawkins\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T14:00:00","slug":"bill-oreilly-interviews-richard-dawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/04\/26\/bill-oreilly-interviews-richard-dawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly interviews Richard Dawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g8etMHn4P6g\">Here&#8217;s <\/a> Dawkins talking to Fox News&#8217; right-wing Catholic Bill O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, O&#8217;Reilly plays the <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/moral%20relativism\">relativist<\/a> card, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s true for me that Jesus is God&#8221;, as well as aiming a blunderbus-full of crap [typical Fox style] in Dawkins&#8217; direction, including <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/atheism%20a%20faith%20position%3F\">atheism is just as much a faith position<\/a>, and (paraphrasing) &#8220;Well, how do <span style=\"font-style:italic\">you<\/span> explain why the universe exists, then? Until you come up with an answer, I&#8217;m sticking with Jesus!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Dawkins struggles a bit to cope with it all. My question is, what would have been the best responses to O&#8217;Reilly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Dawkins talking to Fox News&#8217; right-wing Catholic Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Interestingly, O&#8217;Reilly plays the relativist card, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s true for me that Jesus is God&#8221;, as well as aiming a blunderbus-full of crap [typical Fox style] in Dawkins&#8217; direction, including atheism is just as much a faith position, and (paraphrasing) &#8220;Well, how do you explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-a-faith-position","category-dawkins","category-moral-relativism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}