The Great Debate: Dinesh D'Souza v. Michael Shermer (part 4)

In this debate on what are arguably two of the most important questions in the culture wars today — Is Religion a Force for Good or Evil? and Can you be Good without God? — the conservative Christian author and cultural scholar Dinesh D'Souza and the libertarian skeptic writer and social scientist Michael Shermer, square off to resolve these and related issues, such as the relationship between science and religion and the nature and existence of God. This event was one of the liveliest ever hosted by the Skeptics Society at Caltech, mixing science, religion, politics, and culture.

The Skeptics Society (Michael Shermer)
Director, The Skeptics Society: Michael Shermer
Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University: Dinesh D'Souza

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[KaraRvn]

"Did religion poison Dante?"

FUCK YES! :-P I can sum up Dante's "Inferno" in one sentence: A man watching his rivals and political enemies being tortured forever, and being filled with immense joy at the sight of it.

[riggermortisify]

Wow, less than 5 minutes and Dinesh has nearly used every fallacy in existence. And again he's misrepresenting people's arguments. Neither Hitchens nor Dawkins EVER assert there is no god. They stop at "the arguments in favour of god aren't good enough to warrant belief.".

How on fucking earth does he even get to debate to begin with? He's jumping from one lump of gibberish to another. Why am I even surprised? Every debate is one sided, a rational person vs a shitty car salesman.

[MrKeenoRossi]

Shermer is too soft, too nice. He allowed D'souza to control the conversation.

[nietzschescode]

hitler;s biggest influences was from Thule, a mystic group in bavaria...as for nietzsche;s will to power, hitler distortioned what nietzsche had really said, like dsouza like to distortioned what nietzsche had really said..

[DrunkenNuts]

hitches out of his depth when it comes to history and philosophy? thats where he shines . that WAS his field of study. hate this guy

[proximaism]

dinesh clearly won!!!!

[vegieman92]

dinesh is such a jack ass



[trealboihottie]

@KaraRvn is that the biggest point you wanted to refute? WHY?

[D3uscaritas3st]

Dinesh is awesome

[KyleSkullz]

hahaha... shermer handled that beautifully @ 3:27

[Seigu007]

@riggermortisify all i hear is WAAAAA... Cant you whine without being so obvious?