In a new debate series, Inside Story, British chemist Peter Atkins and Apologetics Academy’s Jonathan McLatchie take on this most fundamental of subjects:
The Inside Story is a talk show, hosted by David Stretton-Downes, engaging in compelling conversations; exploring life’s big questions in unique locations.
A friend writes to comment on Atkins’s “smarmy condescension.”
Indeed. In an age when serious scientists wonder whether the universe itself is conscious—because they cannot otherwise account for intelligence in nature— it’s not clear what smarmy condescension would achieve. Except, perhaps, to indicate that the condescender does not know what time it is.
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