Link to The genius of Charles Darwin: God strikes back documentary
Documentary Description
In this final episode Dawkins examines why Darwin's theory remains one of the most controversial ideas in history.
As Darwin set out on the voyage on the Beagle he still believed that
god created the world and everything in it. But the evidence he
discovered - fossils, patterns of anatomical resemblance, startling
similarities of embryos and domestic breeding - demonstrated the truth:
that all life forms vary and that some are more likely to reproduce,
passing variations on. His wife Emma, however, was deeply religious and
Darwin never criticised religion in public but he believed that
"science would bring about a gradual illumination of minds".
Today, Dawkins argues, science has the evidence to prove that evolution is true. Modern discovery of the DNA code which links all life has added to the mountain of evidence showing that evolution is a fact. So why, he wonders as he meets creationists in America, is opposition to evolution more aggressive than ever?
Dawkins is also concerned that back in the UK teaching evolution has become a hugely sensitive
issue for science teachers: "This is multicultural Britain. And one of
its fault lines runs straight through our children's classrooms. How do
we reconcile scientific truth with the deeply held convictions that
bind religious communities?"
Returning to the school he visited in episode one, Dawkins confronts
the science teachers and challenges their view that they "can't get in
to the business of knocking down kid's religions and the religions of
families." "There really is", he says, "something special about
scientific evidence. Science works; planes fly. Magic carpets and
broomsticks don't. Gravity isn't a version of the truth; it is the
truth. Anybody who doubts it is invited to jump out of a tenth floor
window. Evolution too, is reality."
This equivocation, Dawkins says, began with the Church of England who,
rather than attack Darwin, embraced him in a "comfortable relativist
fudge". So he meets the Archbishop of Canterbury to ask how he
reconciles Darwin and the laws of physics with the miracles described
in the bible.
Finally, Dawkins travels to meet an old friend, Dan Dennett, who shares
many of his own beliefs, to answer the question Darwin himself was
confronted with: how can we find solace in a godless world?
In this final episode Dawkins examines why Darwin's theory remains one of the most controversial ideas in history. 
