Debate between Christian Biophysicist and Atheist Philosopher - Part 1 of 3

Debate between Christian biophysicist Cees Dekker and atheist philosopher Herman Philipse

The dutch equivalent of Francis Collins versus Daniel Dennett

Distinguished University Professor Cees Dekker's homepage:
http://www.ceesdekker.net/

Distinguished University Professor Herman Philipse's university page:
http://www.phil.uu.nl/~philipse/

Prof. Herman Philipse is also a Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Low Countries:
http://www.cfilowcountries.org/dummy/fellows.html


Christian Biophysicist vs Atheist Philosopher - Part 1 of 3

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• philipse
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[maskevito]

Does anyone knows the song @ the intro and outro?

[wimsweden]

@maskevito

watch?v=0OGNaFqCTbg

[dysvanlist]

5:33 Haha, look at Philipse face. Priceless

[sukablianah2]

Harrison Ford all the way!

[Sweddude]

@Dominick7 Sometimes sarcasm gets lost in text :P

[Dominick7]

@Sweddude lol oh you were being sarcastic? Somehow I missed that.. lol. Wait that's kinda confusing. I hate humor online sometimes.

[Sweddude]

@Dominick7 Here on youutube it is indeed a rare sight.

[Dominick7]

@Sweddude two intelligent and highly educated people having an engaging and intelligent discussion.. someone shoot me?? I guess that's expected as a response from a secularist..

[Dominick7]

@ndzoko Youre using a strawman, making it sound ridiculous, only to knock down the strawman while patting yourself on the back for never dealing with the real issue.

[87Bartholomeus]

@ndzoko

Poe's law right? Got to be...

[ndzoko]

Christianity is logic::God decides to redeem mankind, to save them from his eternal damnation.To do so, he will send his son to be sacrifice to HIMSELF,in atonement for the sins committed against HIMSELF. He chooses a people to help him do it. He makes sure that they know of his plan by sending prophets, But if they know he is the Messiah, they will not kill him, and his plan will be spoiled. So he makes the prophecies murky. His scheme works. What a divine script.Praise be to god.

[Spjungen]

I appreciate the intellectual debate of religion vs christianity. I respect christians who can hold their own and justify their beliefs in argument, and the whole god thing is the main topic which lifted me from apathy and catapulted me into academia.

What I have a problem with is that from what I can see, it's become less of an honest intellectual discussiont these days and more of an evangelizing scheme; atheists are now tying to "convert" people, which gives atheism a bad name as an idea.