Report on the Hitchens-D’Souza debate
April 8, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under Christopher Hitchens, biology, debates, people, religion, science, social and literary criticism
Overall, I’m very happy to have attended the debate. The amount of real interaction between Hitchens and D’Souza was far less than I was hoping for, in part due to the format of the debate. Still, Hitchens made for a very good representative of atheism, and actually I was pleasantly surprised by the approach he [...]
Continue Reading »Breathtaking historical ignorance watch
October 25, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under Anslem, Augustine, Christopher Hitchens, G. E. Leibniz, George Berlkey, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Rene Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne, Sam Harris, Samuel Clarke, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, history, people, philosophy, religion, stupidity
From a recent Newsweek column, via Jerry Coyne:
But this version of the conversation [the version represented by Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens--ed.] has gone on too long. We have allowed three people to frame it; its terms—submitting God to rational proofs and watching God fail—are theirs.
But this approach to discussing religion far pre-dates Harris. It’s found [...]