The Great Debate: Lennox vs Shermer 10/10

Does God exist?
Debate held at Wesley Centre Sydney. Professor John Lennox versus Dr Michael Shermer

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Science
• Religion
• Physics
• God
• belief
• faith
• spirituality
• Morality
• Ethics

[din80s]

I have to say something about the word sceptic because I'm actually Greek and I know my own language pretty well. Sceptic means thinker; simple as that! the word does not include any meaning for distance. sceptics were philosophers, men of critical thinking and the origins of philosophy are as greek as the word philosophy itself, which means passion for wisdom. Greeks and Arabs later on were the first scientists, their ideas inspired western europe and that was the end of the dark ages.

[666TheBloodLust666]

John Lennox has a new fan!

[emurdoch100]

@din80s I think what John was getting at is possibly the ancient Greek for the word 'skeptic', of which the word that we have now derived from.

[jmg94j]

Do you really think that the earth is 6-10 000 years old? Do you think that the sun was created after the oceans and plants were created? Do you really think that the Koala bear suddenly learned how to swim, and then swam 9000 miles so he could go onto a boat, and be saved from a flood? Wouldn't it have been easier to just tread water until the flood receded? Creationism is not science, it is superstition. My point in the comment was that Christianity resisted and slowed scientific progress.

[SoldierOfChrist110]

@jmg94j But science and the Bible do not contradict each other. Creation is scientific in every way possible.

[jmg94j]

@SoldierOfChrist110 Atheists don't believe in things, we either accept, reject, or remain undecided on things. When I debate someone, I only attack the idea, the position, not the person. You will notice that I did not attack Lennox personally. I attacked his comments. "The rise of science came out of a Christian framework". Thanking religion for science is like thanking the school bully for saving you from drowning, after he held your head under water for a minute, and then pulled you up.

[SoldierOfChrist110]

@jmg94j It doesn't matter how intelligent a person is, if they do not believe the foolish hogwash that atheists believe, the atheists will start name calling like a little child who has lost its dummy.

[jmg94j]

Lennox was given way more time than Shermer in this debate. Fortunately, Shermer could debunk in 30 seconds the verbal diarrhea that took Lennox 5 minutes to crap out.

[drey27]

looool that dude laughing alone

[philmoore71]

thanks for posting it... i'm glad i didn't have to wait for it to evolve to arrive on yt, but was intentionally placed here

[jbjrsdbttdl]

God bless John, he did an amazing job!

[bebopuk88]

@Stanium7 they are only hard to dispute because their arguments use the same word play a conman uses when hes cornered. they've perfected the art of emotional appeal, taking refuge in semantics and passing the buck. these arguments are always easily debunked because they are so circular and full of fallacies. shermer doesn't worry about getting cheap applause for cheap points. go shermer!