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.

4 Thought TV

On November 23, Randall Hardy featured in one of Channel 4’s, 4 Thought comment programmes. Lasting no more than two minutes, these programmes aim to give people of all opinions opportunity to express their views. The theme of the week’s series of seven programmes was, “Should creationism be taught in schools?” and came about after the British Humanist Society sponsored a campaign to ban creation from being taught in schools and at the same time to make evolution a compulsory part of the syllabus from primary schools upwards.

For further details and links to where you can watch the programme on YouTube and 4 Thought’s web site, click here.

The uncut interview on YouTube

Richard Dawkins’ web site is 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) put the interview with John on YouTube. Obviously, this student did not care about copyright - when the original broadcast programmes were posted on YouTube they were withdrawn within days! Over the months various other users uploaded sections of this interview, but then YouTube started taking some of the videos off line.

By May 2010 YouTube appears to be blocking most of them in the UK, though they are still listed on various channels. We suggest that you use the link to the right to search YouTube for “Dawkins Mackay” and view any parts that are available. remember you are looking for the uncut interview.

See below for information on how to view the broadcast interview.

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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.