Most people are never pleased with Bill O'Reilly and his program on Fox News, because he makes almost everything to seem controversial and sometimes sorely repugnant. Politics, politics, politics and more politics.
He is naturally or highly argumentative, which is somehow good for a television skit like his; and it has serious indentations of some very good scripts, but also a whole lot of crafted versions of himself being idolized, or so he thinks, by the viewers.
He also likes to bring on people, who want to caricature themselves, such as Dennis Miller. He has a part on The O'Reilly Factor; and as it seems he tickles his funny bone so much, he has created a portion known as "Miller Time" for him.
No one really knows, whether he is just using him to fill time or to make a complete segment; however, Miller is actually no fool, in the right meaning of the word; and he wants to delight him, O'Reilly, in reverse, and to show the public that he is useful, every step of the way.
Yet, all that is beside the point, as for the first time, this blog enjoyed the show very, very much, because he puts politics aside and converses brilliantly with an atheist by the name of Richard Dawkins.
He has written a book titled "The magic of reality", which O'Reilly insists that it is directed to children and adolescents, and it contains information idealizing science in opposition to, what else, God and Creation. He denies the accusation and says that it is to point out that all that is seen as reality is happenstance.
O'Reilly is not promoting Creation, but what he says to the gentleman is very interesting, that he does not believe that a meteor crashed into a "boom" and everything in the Universe happened.
He has brought in a bit of religion, to the extent of mentioning the Ten Commandments, saying that it, religion, has imposed constraints on human behavior; and is that not true?.
The author does not have a direct answer to that, except to say that part of it (TC) does no good for anything either, such as "observing the Sabbath".
He has been on the program before, as a combatant in defence of science, and advocating atheism. However, he happens to withdraw into a corner and forgets about what he has said at the time.
O'Reilly finally pins him down with the idea that science explains everything in the Universe; and he gets the answer, "No; it explains everything in the natural world", which does not make any sense at all.
In fact, is not the natural world the same as the Universe?
The two have been talking for a while, and trying to score points for either side; but in the end O'Reilly has won the day, only this time, with plain talk and for being himself, and not for being as argumentative as usual.
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