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Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life

Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life

Description: This programme, presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, investigates whether science can answer the major questions that people used to turn to religion to answer if religion is left behind. Dawkins explores what reason and science could offer to guide people's lives in religion's absence. Dawkins builds an argument that religions' moral codes fuel lies and guilt, while travelling across the world from inner-city London to the Bible Belt in the southern U.S.
Genre: Documentary
Year Released: 2012
Number of episodes: 3
First episode air date: October 15, 2012
Producer: ClearStory
Genre: Documentary
Number Of Series: 1
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