I came across this from the Richard Dawkins' Foundation website, and no doubt some of you will have already seen this. It's a fairly tame but nonetheless encouraging encounter between an eight year old who apparently has her head screwed firmly on, and Christopher Hitchens.
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/...ding-list/
However, rather than this be a short lived thread where we all go 'awww, look at the little tinker asking Hitchens questions about books', I thought maybe we could open up more broadly to a discussion about how you guys think the next generation will experience religion and atheism, how the demographics might shift and what the children of today are likely to have to deal with. For those of you with children, what do you teach them about the world? Are they the sorts of children likely to do as Mason did and ask such questions, or have such a passion for learning?
I have some thoughts on this which I'll add soon, but in the meantime, take it away.
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/...ding-list/
However, rather than this be a short lived thread where we all go 'awww, look at the little tinker asking Hitchens questions about books', I thought maybe we could open up more broadly to a discussion about how you guys think the next generation will experience religion and atheism, how the demographics might shift and what the children of today are likely to have to deal with. For those of you with children, what do you teach them about the world? Are they the sorts of children likely to do as Mason did and ask such questions, or have such a passion for learning?
I have some thoughts on this which I'll add soon, but in the meantime, take it away.
