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Bill O'Reilly & Deepak Chopra say they "kicked Richard Dawkins' ass"

(11/3/11) Hollywood is famous for putting fantasies onscreen but sometimes they get outdone by the claims of television personalities. Check out the video from at left and see if that's not the case here. Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly, who hosts The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News network, features a recurring segment called Believers vs Non-Believers. On it last night, he reran parts of an earlier show where he locked horns with famed biologist and atheist, Prof. Richard Dawkins, claiming that Dawkins' new science book for children, The Magic of Reality, was an attempt to "get to the kids and say you're an idiot if you believe in God."

He used that to enlist his current guest, spirituality and alternative medicine promoter Deepak Chopra, who (like Dawkins had been) was there to promote a book, into a criticism of the absent atheist... not that Chopra was reluctant to chime in.

More, including a video, here.

Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Deepak Chopra, Richard Dawkins

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Permalink Reply by ShashankA on November 6, 2011 at 1:12am

Deepak Chopra is one funny guy who keeps making claims that continuously get debunked.

Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on November 13, 2011 at 5:35pm

Yeah, they kicked Richard Dawkins' ass. Just like I kicked Mike Tyson's ass.

NO ONE CAN KICK DAWKINS' ASS!! HIS IS THE UNKICKABLE ASS!!!

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on December 15, 2011 at 9:43pm

Right, Chris!

Permalink Reply by David W on November 16, 2011 at 12:36pm

Why do intelligent people such as Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, go on FoxNews?

Permalink Reply by Pat on November 16, 2011 at 12:51pm

Probably for the same reason educators go and teach at prisons. Trying to bring some knowledge and enlightenment to the gullible and ignorant who have chosen the wrong path. Are you going to reach everyone? No. The majority? No. A few? Hopefully!

Permalink Reply by Gecko, Seth...brother of Richie! on November 16, 2011 at 12:58pm

Chopra and O'Reilly..theres a match made in..oops! Now if we could get them to connect with Coast to Coast AM!!

Permalink Reply by Jonah on November 21, 2011 at 9:47pm

Check out this blog I did on Chopra. I called it "Hero of the stupid"

http://www.freethoughtblog.net/2011/11/deepak-chopra-hero-of-stupid...

Permalink Reply by Shaine Carroll-Frey on December 8, 2011 at 10:33pm

I think Dawkins goes on these shows just to prove a point. To show how unintelligent, ignorant, arogant, and rude these religious people are.

Permalink Reply by David W on December 9, 2011 at 8:10am

It's futile unless he was trying to sell his books, which is brilliant. Duh!

Permalink Reply by Dorris Journeay on February 18, 2012 at 6:54pm

As if DeepCrap ChokesYa has a scientific leg to stand on when dissing Richard Dawkins. Let's see Bill Orally have J.K. Rowling debate Neil deGrasse Tyson about how the laws of physics can be influenced by chanting and wand-waving...because making millions selling woo-woo lends a person so much more credibility than scientific degrees and actual scientific achievements. Seriously - does anyone give any weight to what a couple of idiots think about Richard Dawkins? I don't. If Richard Dawkins' vision came true there would be far fewer gullible idiots out there buying into the woo and people like ChokesYa and Orally would have to get real jobs.

Permalink Reply by Nathan Ortberg on February 24, 2012 at 11:12pm

Chopra is such an idiot. I don't even see how he's relevant in these types of discussions anymore. As for Bill O, well he just has no place speaking on it.

Tides go in, tides go out. Can't explain that hurr hurr hurr. What a bunch of ridiculous nonsense that only a Fox News viewer would take with any seriousness.

The only thing they should've said was thank you Mr. Dawkins for taking time to make us seem relevant for a second.

Permalink Reply by Albert Terry on March 16, 2012 at 1:32pm

Bitch, please. I've seen a few of Dawkins' appearances on the O'Reilly Factor and he reduces Billo into a stammering moron. Of course, Billo's definition of an ass-kicking is "I'm yelling louder than you are so I'm winning!"