Richard Dawkins and Alistair McGrath - Christianity 1of8

Nine months before the release of his million-copy bestseller The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins had the world buzzing with his television documentary Root of All Evil? During the filming, Richard Dawkins conducted many fascinating interviews with people from around the world. This uncut interview from the original tapes, allows the viewer a rare vantage point into these revealing exchanges.

Alistair McGrath is one of a number of authors who have penned a rebuttal to Richard's latest book. Alistair has actually penned two, "Dawkins God" and "The Dawkins Delusion - Atheist fundamentalism and the denial of the devine"

http://www.richarddawkins.net

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[Lightmane321]

isn't it nice when a christian & an atheist can get along so nicely & be so respectful to each other

[FourFifteenAM]

I enjoy debates involving Dawkins much more than those involving Hitchens. Hitchens always comes off as a prick. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the arguments he makes, but it's his demeanor that throws me off.

[GambitFox79]

Why does this have so few views???? You finally have an intellectual, well-mannered discussion. And so few views.

[punnet2]

"Stalk", you say? It was you who decided to resume the exchange 6 months later by flooding my page with comments of a rather callow nature.  Then, incapable of soundly defending your beliefs, you again you take to indignantly scurrying away.

Such cowardice is to be expected of a christtard who can't think beyond the confines of his bronze age faith.

[punnet2]

@unitethechurch Accusations of juvenility from someone with an imaginary friend -- the irony!

Sorry once again, but you only demonstrated that you have to mischaracterize my statements in regard to the Miller experiment et al. to have even the pretense of credibility.

Once again: If your evidence and reasoning were sound, you would not require faith to make up the difference. Your reliance on faith is your admission that you lack proof.

[unitethechurch]

@punnet2 Also way to stalk me on youtube and post comments that only demonstrate that your an idiot (I'm wondering when you will start talking about a flying spagheti monster). Simply because I demonstrated your lack of scientific knowledge in regards to the emergence of life on our planet by naturalistic means. I will now ignore you as my life is better spent talking to people who arn't idiots.

[unitethechurch]

@punnet2 Your understanding of what faith is, is extremely juvenile. You seem to believe that all Christians hold a Fideistic view in regards to faith and reason. Faith is what we employ whenever we take a position on any issue when we do not possess perfect information. Reason alone can distinguish very few truths. In almost all cases we must make an inference to what we consider to be the hypotheses with the greatest explanatory power.

[punnet2]

@unitethechurch Faith is what you use when you don't have actual evidence.

[MrKerpelWatson]

haha sound problem!

[Kairusan]

@unitethechurch

I'm glad it didn't come out as someone speaking with an antagonistic tone. I don't intend to attack anyone of any religious belief.

I fully understand your thought process on this and I respect your beliefs. It seems, from what I've read here, that you have an open mind and really thought things through before dedicating yourself to what you believe now. I respect that--we need that from more people.

[unitethechurch]

@Kairusan Now I do not have certainty on my belief nor do I claim to. Infact most of the things I believe are faith positions (I believe the material world exists and that other people have minds). Their are two kinds of faith. 1. My assent to belief is the first kind since I do not have certainty, faith in this sense is assent to belief without having certainty of that belief. 2. Faith is trust, it is active, it is trusting in a person.

[unitethechurch]

@Kairusan firstly thankyou for your non antagonistic tone. Theres a difference between knowing Jesus and believing in Jesus. Knowing him is the difference, knowing Christ and the witness of the spirit which comes after giving ones life to Jesus makes a huge difference to the evidence (even thought it is subjective). I also take Alistair's view that we have many competing world views to choose from, Christianity makes sense of the evidence in the best way, thats why i believe it.