Part 6 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Peter Singer

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Dinesh D'Souza debates Peter Singer at Biola University.

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[ShikaNinja]

Peter Singer gives me an intellectual erection.

[Liaomiao]

Give Dinesh a break guys. If you had to defend a view as preposterous as the existence of god I highly doubt you can do any better...

[BigLundi]

@fjoo The thing is, depending on which side one is on, they may project that the one who is being 'cornered' and is pulling out 'irrelevant rhetoric' would be, by default, the side that one isn't on. As an atheist, I felt that Singer was being perfectly clear in his points and D'Souza dodged as many questions as possible. But christians might say, "No no, D'SOUZA is the clear one, Singer pulls out irrelevant Rhetoric!"

[fjoo]

On another note, Hitchens would have ripped that audience to pieces ...

Biola _University_, that's scary..

[fjoo]

Even if you are on one side or the other, it should be very revealing that in debates like this; one side is crystal clear about the things they do know and let's you know about the things they don't know - while the other side is fuzzy about everything and as soon as they are "cornered" pulls out a completely different subject.

This kind of behaviour in it's self should be enough to judge, even if you haven't read all the arguments or have the education to critically judge what is being said.

[Nwidmann]

Atheists are angry and lame

[TheGerogero]

D'Souza: "Haven't you watched the nature channel?" and the audience sniggers! I do so pity those HALF-WIT BILE GOBBLERS... Not only is that rebuttal vacuous, Fisher dismantles it in no time at all. Also shows D'Souza's inability to participate in sound argumentation.

[TheGerogero]

So he dismisses terrestrial suffering as a moot point given some grand divine scheme. WELL WHAT ABOUT HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!

[firestarr07]

I love Dinesh, the way he uses words so much more vaguely than a philosopher usually does and avoid each question he gets. Fantastic!!

[Aliof]

You have got to give it to Dinesh, no matter how dishonest and how preposterous he sounds, he keeps on arguing. He gets on his feet right away no matter how often he is KO.

I am going to accept Jesus as my savior simply to encourage Dinesh to keep on making a fool out of himself. He is making an argument, the logic behind it notwithstanding.

[NoExistenteCaballero]

Oh, Jesus. D'Souza, truly, is one of the worst, more infuriating, fallacious idiots with academic pedantry that I have EVER seen or heard. So poor. Really, really poor as a debater. It's almost impossible to actually call this a debate. Singer is doing it alone.

[whauffend]

You just can't have a meaningful discussion about religion and involving apologists in debates is like inviting a shark in your bathtub. Constructive debates are panels of two to six non-religious experts who speak, debate and take ample time to answer questions from the public. Those audience members who start reciting the bible and ask holy questions should be treated like we treat neofascist audience members: turn down their mike and explain to them that they are at the wrong meeting.