Part 12 - Dinesh D'Souza/ Dan Barker Debate

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Barker Debates Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, debates Dan Barker

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[BaileysBeads]

Indeed, he keeps dancing around everything.

Then again, the whole debate was moderated quite poorly, these students think all a good debate needs is a set of very strict rules

[omnissient]

Notice how D'Souza misrepresents every question, strawmanning his opponent to then mow them down.

Why are religious people all lying pieces of sh1t?

[Ematched]

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[Ematched]

D'souza: "What if the values [of the physical constants] were different?"

Me: the universe would he different.

D'souza: "therefore, 'god.' "

Me: That's an argument from ignorance.

D'souza: "I have never heard a good refutation of [the fine-tuning argument]."

Me: That argument starts from a fallacy.

D'souza: "See? No counter-argument."

[OutnProudAtheist]

D'Sousa dances better than Fred Astaire but it's all in vain, he has lost this debate not at any particular point but the whole way through. Dodge duck 'n dive is all he's got, it's all any apologist has ever got every time I watch these types of debates. It never matters who is on the theist side, with a few speaking and tactical debating differences - they're all the same.

Notice how angry he is. They accuse atheists of anger, well at least we have something to be pissed about - religion!

[Edwin North]

did he really say xtians can harbor doubt?? WTF!!??

[Edwin North]

How to answer a simple yes/no question in a timed debate by Dinesh D'Souza after repeating the question then commenting on how stupid the question was one needs to go into the history of debate. Then of course one has to define what is really ment by yes and no an dteh implications of a similar question posed by Richard Dawkins that has an interesting anecdotal concept that is tangentially tied to the original posted question before then ascribing specific perimeters to the initial proposition

[Aguijon1982]

WTF? If at the end we must accept everything on faith...then why isnt my faith that there is no god also valid?

[goodejr15]

You most certainly are ignoring the evidence. Just look at many of the posts on this and other debates of Christians against Atheists for the proof.

[Kai Werner]

No i m not. You re most likely reading those comments through your biased christian wannabe offended goggles. You believers never hear what's actually said. If i say christianity is a mind control virus the christians think i hate them even though i didn't say that at all. Cause you identify with a belief more than with humans. It's called brainwashing.

[goodejr15]

Well, they are accused of that as well. But if you don't believe religious people are called judgmental, with the overwhelming amount of evidence to support my claim available on the internet, I'd have to conclude that you're either ignorant or lying.