Every so often the secular media takes an interest in the ministry of John Mackay and Creation Research as a whole.

This section provides reports and links to such coverage in the UK.

The uncut interview on YouTube
Watch it while you can!

Richard Dawkin’s web site is now selling the DVDs of the broadcast programmes of the last year’s series The Genius of Charles Darwin. They are also selling a collection of DVDs featuring the uncut interviews made for that same series. (Click here for details.) Some of the full interviews are available on line for free, but not the one with John Mackay.

However, an atheist student from Texas (TheCounterweight1) has put the interview with John on YouTube. Obviously, this student does not care about copyright - when the original broadcast programmes were posted on YouTube they were withdrawn within days!

We are not sure how long it will be before these videos are withdrawn, but we encourage you to watch them while you can. They make interesting viewing.

Update 1 Sept. 2009: Discovered today that TheCounterweight1’s Channel no longer exists on YouTube and so the original 3 videos are no longer available. However, another atheist posting under the name “AtheistPlanetBlog” has now uploaded this interview but split into 2 parts. (This guy is also from Texas and uses the same logo.) The good news is that this means you can still watch this exchange on-line.

Update 4 Dec. 2009: During November YouTube began to block Part 2 in the UK, saying that it was doing so for copyright reasons. We found the same material on another channel, but again Part 2 was blocked. Of course we do not object to this has Dawkins has every right to protect his copyright. However, it does mean that those in the UK can only see Part 1 for the time being. (We will leave the link to Part 2 just in case those in other places can view it.) Of course the best option would be for Dawkins to make it all on his web site, or give us permission to put it on ours.

Click the links below to see both parts on YouTube

Part 1 & Part 2 (where available)

Defying Darwin

The Guardian - February 2009

Darwin's bicentenary on 12th February, brought his theory before the public as the media paid relentless homage to him. We heard that the Guardian delayed Stephen Moss's article because they did not want to publish anything critical of Darwin in the week of his birthday!

You can read it here on the Guardian's web site. Includes comments from both John Mackay and Randall Hardy.

The Genius of Charles Darwin,
Channel 4 TV - August 2008

The third episode of this series featured an encounter between Richard Dawkins & John Mackay.

It was very good to hear Dawkins once again admit that evolution has not been observed, but we were more surprised by his considered comment that, "The refusal to believe in anything you can't see yourself is absurd."

Click here to read more.

What the Papers, TV & Radio Said!

From April through to June 2006, John Mackay was in high demand by the British media.

During this period many articles were written and John appeared on various radio stations and several TV programmes. These included the Financial Times Magazine and BBC World's HARDtalk programme.

This page links to every report we can find on the Internet.