Christopher Hitchens Dead at 62; Prolific Columnist and Author Succumbs to Cancer

Christopher Hitchens, iconoclastic journalist and author, has passed away of complications from esophageal cancer.

Hitchens, who authored nearly 20 books including God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and Hitch 22: A Memoir, was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the Atlantic, and a columnist at Slate.

In an interview with Atlantic colleague Jeffrey Goldberg following his cancer diagnosis, Hitchens remained a steadfast atheist, allowing that any deathbed conversion to religion would be disingenuous: "The entity making such a remark might be a raving, terrified person whose cancer has spread to the brain," he said, "I can't guarantee that such an entity wouldn't make such a ridiculous remark. But no one recognizable as myself would ever make such a ridiculous remark."

Hitchens was 62.

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[BoyJewish]

@riggermortisify How can he be a truth teller when he tells you the human eye is not a design? No one would believe Mt Rushmore is the result of chance yet this bitter man teaches human eyes are by chance?

[seansalvador1]

@BoyJewish yes.

[seansalvador1]

@BoyJewish

I have already answered you, you failed to address my reply.

Energy and matter are not functions.

Your '2 semesters' should have taught you the basics, like the definition of a function.

[BoyJewish]

@seansalvador1 I am not discussing to see who is wiser, I want to know who I am talking to, have you taken any calsulus or physics? My question was strightforward...energy and matter and functions of what according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

[BoyJewish]

@BoyJewish Sean my dear friend, what are energy and matter functions of? If you don't know, that is no sin, I took three semesters of classes dealing with thermodynamics!

[seansalvador1]

@BoyJewish

PS

They are not functions at all, unless you are not using the definition of a function used in physics, in which case they could be called a function of space - time at a stretch.

That, however, is nonsense.

One could even call matter a function of energy, but that's stretching the definition wildly.

[seansalvador1]

@BoyJewish

What has that got to do with anything?

Sorry, should i have typed "what?????"

Moron.

[BoyJewish]

@seansalvador1 Oh aren't you the tastiest cookie in the jar? LOL. Answer my simple quiz....entropy tells us that matter and energy are functions of what?????

[seansalvador1]

@adolfarrakahane

Whoever said that they were? Theories describe mechanisms of facts. Evolution is a fact, the theory that describes its mechanism is called modern evolutionary synthesis.

If this theory is found to be incorrect of incomplete it does not change the fact that animals evolve.

[seansalvador1]

@BoyJewish

The second law of thermodynamics does not mean that the universe had a beginning, unless you have found a way to describe what happens at < Planck length/time? I doubt you have a theory of quantum gravity so you are therefore talking rubbish.