Review of The God Delusion Debate

Hear the debate for yourself:
http://richarddawkins.net/article,1707,Debate-between-Richard-Dawkins-and-Joh...
(you'll need to copy and paste this into the URL and be sure to remove any spaces)

This is the site for the organization that hosted the event:
http://www.fixed-point.org

The Official Richard Dawkins site:
http://www.richarddawkins.net

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• king
• heathen
• Atheist
• God
• Science
• Logic
• Richard
• Dawkins
• debate

[saleebyman]

I got to the 4 minute mark...and i was horrified at some of the stuff u said....u say at 3:04-3:09 that faith being blind is a given....which is totally not the definition of faith....but anyway, u then say that at 3:55 that faith isnt blind wen talkin bout ur wife???

thumbs up ppl if im not alone in seeing this flaw

[KingHeathen]

@saleebyman you should have kept watching...you missed the point and misunderstood what I was saying about faith.

[Ormaaj]

Dawkins isn't the best person to debate about the existence of god. He's pretty much a science guy. He would do fine arguing against creationism, but he doesn't seem to have a very strong philosophic basis for his arguments. I've never really heard Dawkins talk epistemology in any detail.

IMO, launching into the big bang and evolution as evidence for the non-existence of god is a pretty poor tactic if you want to address any of your opponent's points that probably don't come from science.

[KingHeathen]

@noimplant4me And which fallacy would that be? The one you just made up because you have no clue what a "fallacy" is? (Not to mention that your poor example of how you think the Theory of Evolution works is flawed in many many ways)

[InsanityComplex1]

Continued-To them, no available information collected by human intelligence is factual knowledge.

[InsanityComplex1]

Religious faith is belief without evidence as most christians will agree upon as the definition and grounds for their worship as others would demonstrate arrogance in their delusion by claiming they KNOW. Faith can also be defined as TRUST, in the realistic sense, which would be, well, outside the realm of mystical insanity that is religion.

As for beliefs, well, everything to them is in terms of beliefs-belief in science, technology, evolution etc. fuckin 500 limit...

[kram83au]

@jeannshi you meant to finish off by saying in your opinion. if dawkins lost an argument to every faith we would have a sky full of imaginary friends above us.so religions are basicaly the security blanket of the weak,insecure,non rationalists,self deceiving fools that fear what they do not understand. claiming that your gods got a bigger cock than the next is extremly stupid. but hey dont think when youve got a virtue like blind faith [wink]

[jeannshi]

May be you should be the one to debate Lennox since you think you know better than Dawkins! When are you publishing your own book and invite Lennox to debate it.  To my observation, Dawkins was sooo lost that I even wondered his competence in debating or even on whether he was the one that wrote the book itself. Seriously, that was the worst perfomance on the atheist side!

[TserraG]

@zabriel13 I disagree, I think no matter what Lennox was saying, he always used backwards logic, horrible leaps of logic, didn't even understand what faith or evolution were, and simply used blatantly unrelated or contradicting arguments and ideas to "disprove" or attack atheism, no matter if it was true or not. You can't disprove atheism in any way other than positively proving your own religion... I would really like to ask Lennox why he only believes in the Christian god and not the others.

[MPaulHolmes]

He says faith is blind. IF FAITH, THEN BLIND!!! Don't change the statement.

[codyaustinpemberton]

kingheathen you are an idiot