Part 9- 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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[huwrj]

Dinesh D'Souza: World Champion of Straw Man Knock-Down

[joshgiesbrecht]

Typical religious response for everything here. You'll notice he has to compare religious and non religious beliefs into earthly things. Comparing say OJ killing his wife, and using the multi-verse theory to prove his innocence, to the fact that the reason our universe is so perfect (in terms of having correct gravity so on) is due to laws. He's comparing 2 different meanings of laws (this is in video 8). Thats what religious people do, they make comparisons like that. We however use known facts

[BigLundi]

@felipe2712 Are you a Dinesh ass kisser?

I ask this just so you can see how arrogantly smug and silly that sounds.

I'm also going to accuse you of having not read any of Dan's works, or having ever educated yourself as to the facts. I'm also going to assert that all of dinesh's arguments have easy counters, none are new, and his debate strategy is pathetic.

There, now we're on completely equal ground, because neither one of us have actually DEMONSTRATED our points. People like you annoy me.

[felipe2712]

Ok, are you all Dan's ass kissing students? Go read a little and see that Dinesh just proves him an academic moron. There are indeed areguments against all that, but Dan cannot even find the rhethoric to work around them. What's he been doing all his career if not preparing for debates like that?

[polymath7]

@smeggo I burst out laughing at your comment. But I think the shoulder pads are there for exactly the same reason as the raised voice and the inflated rhetoric.

What a comprehensively bizarre little organism.

[hikermanwa]

Dinesh asserts fantastic claims and offers no evidence for them and then complains that science doesn't take the claims seriously. Hmm… I think he lives in a fantasy world.

[hikermanwa]

@Claypoolkid666 Do you mean REPLACING reason with volume?

[WhoKnowsWE]

@ventelflavius it is meant in the way that you'd think somebody who thinks he has enough reasoned arguments on his side and can debunk the ones of the other debater, wouldn't rely on shouting out his points.

that's what people usually do if there point is to weak to stand on it's own...

and in my opinion dineshs points are weak and fallacious which is why it makes complete sence that he shouts. notice how calm dennett argues. he doesn't need to be loud because his points make way more sence.

[doaftheloaf]

dinesh is hopelessly outclassed here. he's committed every fallacy in the book. it's clear he has no idea what the hell he's talking about.

[ventelflavius]

Why is there two comments thumbed up, that say exactly the same think? Why can`t you just listen TO the words he is saying, not THE WAY he is saying them? From first to last part, the most thumbed up comm. are exactly the same...Why is that? Does it has anything to do with the debate? No... So please STOP TALKING ABOUT THE WAY DINESH TALKS!