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These are old notes from earlier short videos, which were removed and which I don’t have.
This will get updated if and when I re-watch the proper thing.
- Civilisation [sic] will not attain perfection until the last stone, from the last curch [sic], falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola
- 1:30 — Isaac Newton had some previously-unknown religious writings “found”. I wonder if that’s just more Christian revisionism.
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4:40 — Samuel Clarke invoked Biology as evidence of Intelligent Design.
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5:45 — The System of Nature by Baron d’Holbach is widely considered “the Atheist’s Bible”.
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8:00 — It looks like the church has tried to erase his memory, and destroy his remains.
- 4:15 — Thomas Paine
- 4:30 — Simon Schaffer. He was also seen earlier in the series.
- 7:30 — Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
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7:45 — Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason.
- 2:50 — Thomas Paine’s body was exhumed and then “lost”.
- 3:30 — Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man.
- 7:10 — Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s The Necessity of Atheism.
- 7:50 — University of London, University College London and Royal Free and University College Medical School.
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9:25 — Jeremy Bentham
- 0:43 — Utilitarianism
- 1:17 — All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway
- 2:22 — The age of the Earth.
- 3:25 — Geology, …, Charles Lyell
- 3:55 — Charles Darwin
- 6:00 — Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher.
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9:42 — Richard Dawkins
