Part 5 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett

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Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative.

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[jq747]

Ever notice how when these religious types are debating, they always hop up on that soap box and start pontificating? The voice ramps up in cadence, pitch and volume as if they're giving the frickin' sermon on the mount. They don't talk *to* you, they talk *at* you. Bloody bastards.

[whauffend]

D'Souza proves Dennett's point that declining religions are getting louder.

[nazrinalaskarov]

Does he ever stop yelling?

[Sylvine]

@Jmsadv I like to think that I am, yes. Simplicity can be a virtue.

And yes, I have. Pretty much all of them. And Hitchens tends to be quite calm and quiet in his debates, except when he actually wants to be loud (like when he famously asks "How dare You...?"). Meaning he actually uses volume as a tool. Dinesh is just loud all the time, and while that certainly says nothing about his arguments, it's just very irritating and does contribute to the listener being receptive.

~Sylv

[dovox15]

when he drank some water i realized how thirsty i was...hi point of the lecture lol

[EquinoxIV]

@Jmsadv So did George W. Bush, so excuse me if I not immediately fall to my knees in devotion. But ivy league or not, I'm not denying that D'souza is a smart guy, anyway. The problem with him is that he uses all his intellectual capacities to rationalize things, that are not rational. If everything has a creator, and that's his prove that so has the universe, then who created the creator? Oh, right, that's an illegitimate questions because THAT was before time and space existed, right?

[Jmsadv]

@EquinoxIV Dinesh graduated from a ivy league school. Who the hell are you?

[Jmsadv]

@Sylvine Dinesh shouting,have you ever seen Hitchens debate? Are you simple?

[trealboihottie]

@jq747 Have you ever seen John lennox or Craig or Habermas do that? I think not. Its just preference you cannot generalize that all religious debaters "give a sermon on the mount". And In fact, I'm sure there are atheist debaters that at times ramp up in cadence, and pitch and volume at certain points in their arguments as well. So please, be fair here.

[nsugathadasa]

Today I feel sad to be an Indian.