Q&A: God, Science, and Sanity (1)
So, I was on the ABC TV show Q&A last night. You can download the podcast here (copy the link into iTunes or whatever).
I’ve been chatting about the experience with various people over the past few days and thought I might try to set out a couple of reflections here. But first, some background…
How I got there…
A lady from my Bible Study at St Tom’s sent an email to the pastor of our congregation noting that the Q&A was hosting Richard Dawkins on Monday night as part of his tour through Australia (he gave a sell-out presentation at the Opera House on the weekend).
She suggested that a few people should see if they could get tickets to be part of the studio audience. I thought that sounded like fun, so I filled out the form here. On Friday I received an email from one of the producers of the programme telling me that I’d been selected to be part of the studio audience. The subject line of the email was: Tony Jones wants your Questions!
I felt a warm surge of love for the ABC and for all cardigan wearing, beret toting, goatee stroking members of the pinko-commie liberal media mafia. These are my people, Tony needs me!
Carol the Producer (a satisfyingly Marxist job description) told me I had until 1pm Monday to submit a question for consideration. If the question was selected, then I would have the opportunity to ask the question myself, Live On National TV!
Woot!
How I got to ask a question…
Questions…
Call for submissions.
By some weird act of providence I’ve been invited to join the Q&A audience on Monday night. One of the panelists is Professor Richard Dawkins of whom you may have heard 
I’ve also been invited to submit a question for Tony (aka The Thinking Women’s Crumpet according to Emma) to ask. I need to submit the question by midday Monday. So, I’m opening it up for suggestions. What should I ask? I’ll shout a coffee for the best suggestion…