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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[DrStrangeLiebe]

Joshua Christ, apologists sound like preachers, all emotion and no content. I am almost tempted to believe D´Souza until I realize he is spewing incoherent babble.

[torontoBluejays87]

Right around 9:00, Dinesh's argument truly goes insane

[cleverest]

That being said, I DO NOT agree with everything D'Souza advances, but I find it more troubling the empty rhetoric thrown against HIM (note: NOT his actual points) as if it were roll-your-eyes obvious that he's wrong entirely on everything. What a lazy dismissive way to avoid dealing with the actual issues being brought up, and at least for me, such sophistry motivates me NOT to jump on such a band-wagon of intellectual piousness. I'd rather address each point individually and honestly.

[cleverest]

Thanks for "trying" to clarify. but I will conclude you don't grasp his arguments vs. having any compelling refutations against his points, because that is clearly more likely to be the case, given how many times I've heard he spouts "nonsense" yet nobody cares to illustrate WHAT the nonsense IS exactly (prove it to be as such with facts) It's easier (and lazier) to obfuscate his position by using disparaging statements like "nonsense" then it is to deal with them directly via facts, to be sure.

[Corbae L]

Never called myself a scholar. Never planned on making a point by point argument attacking D'souza and never planned on explaining it to the common-minded people as you put it. Why would I or anyone else? We truly do feel that it is obvious that D'souza spouts nonsense that you just need to be a semi-conscious literate person to understand.

[cleverest]

It's amusing to me that so many internet "scholars" attack D'souza and say he speaks nonsense, yet that is the full weight of any argument I hear dealing with the vast majority of points he actually makes. The rebuttals must just be so painfully elementary and obvious to his opponents, that they feel it's not worthy of being explained to the "common-minded" people at large. Yeah, that must be it. :-P

[kingCong3e]

You should be frustrated Dan represents your worldview.

[Corbae L]

D'souza can't really believe anything he saying, he has to be aware of the facts he misrepresents, distorts and creates are not a real argument. He seems to well read and intelligent to actually believe the nonsense that comes out of his mouth, he really can't believe this stuff.

[gnosis24]

The Universe is finely tuned to US? Dinesh, I thought you were smarter than that. WE are finely tuned to the UNIVERSE. Wonderful argument - FOR evolutionary theory...

[idontgive2effs]

D'Souza's arguments are based on 90% red herring and 5% ad populum and 5% crazy.