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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins asks if science can provide answers to the big questions we used to entrust to religion

S01e01 : If there is no God watching us, why be good? 
Richard Dawkins examines sin. He asks whether the old religious rules about what is right and wrong are helpful and explores what science can tell us about how to be good. 
Dawkins journeys from riot-torn inner city London to America's Bible Belt, building a powerful argument that religion's absolutist moral codes fuel lies and guilt. 
He finds the most extreme example in a Paris plastic surgery clinic that specialises in making Muslim brides appear to be virgins once again. 
But what can science and reason tell us about morality? Through encounters with lemurs, tango dancers, the gay rights campaigner Matthew Parris and the scientist Steven Pinker, Dawkins investigates the deeper roots of moral behaviour in our evolutionary past. 
He explores the rituals that surround mating and the science of disgust and taboo. Drawing on crime data and insights from neuroscience, he argues that our evolved senses of reason and empathy appear to be making us more and more moral, even as religious observance declines.

S01e02:
Richard Dawkins explores what science can tell us about death. 
It's a journey that takes him from Hindu funeral pyres in India to genetics labs in New York. 
Dawkins brings together the latest neuroscience, evolutionary and genetic theory to examine why we crave life after death, why we evolved to age and how the human genome is something like real immortality - traits inherited from our distant ancestors that we pass on to future generations.
He meets a Christian dying of motor neurone disease, reminisces about the Wall Street Crash with a 105-year-old stockbroker, and interviews James Watson, the geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. 
Dawkins admits to sentimentality in imagining his own church funeral, but he argues we must embrace the truth, however hard that is. 
In a television first, he has his entire genome sequenced to reveal the genetic indicators of how he himself may die.

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