David Wolpe and Christopher Hitchens: The Great God Debate (2/9)

March 23, 2010. David Wolpe and Christopher Hitchens debate religion, faith,God at John Hancock Hall, Boston, MA.

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[juikm]

Wolpe at 6:00 - "I repudiate statements against masturbation, and I'm willing to do it publicly!" From the smirk on Hitchen's face I think he spotted the semantic ambiguity that the Rabbi missed...

[Soundgarden8497]

if you CHOOSE to debate hitchens you can be guaranteed you're meant to lose

[daskalaka]

Hitchens debates with David Wolpe were always decent, neither took themselves too serious - they got on well outside the debate and David Wolpe wrote a heartfelt piece on Hitchens after his death.

[FlawlessCock]

RIP Christopher Hitchens..

[ThePurpleHarpoon]

Some people think God exists,some don't.This won't change until some kind of evidence appears.But if God condemnsto eternal damnation all the people who don't believe in him..then he's not cool...cos it's not their fault.It's how they are.I'd rather go to hell with Chris than heaven with that other dude.

[dem1god12345]

Lawrence Krauss: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

Released: January 10, 2012.

Where will religion go next? More surreptitious arguments and falsifications I suppose.

[theBartone9119]

I also think Hitchens is wrong when he says stars have been blowing up and ending since the beginning of The Big Bang...It takes a long time for a star to form so I doubt stars blew up beginning at the moment of The Big Bang lol Hitchens still rules though.

[theBartone9119]

"Why is there something rather than nothing?"

Kind of a stupid question. Nothing is most likely just a concept thought up by humans, in reality there never really was absolutely nothing, not even "before" (if before is even possible considering that time as we know it didn't exist until The Big Bang) The Big Bang do I believe there was nothing.

[hinrikv]

@Jakesonaplane so he was. I stand corrected. Thank you

[Jakesonaplane]

@hinrikv Actually he was talking about a lecture given by Lawrence Krauss of the same title: watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

The book wasn't published until this year.

[unabomberman]

@unabomberman

I mistyped: not *in* the molecules, but *by* the effect of the molecules.

[unabomberman]

Sounds are not immaterial, you dummy.

Sound is, quite simply, a mechanical wave; a bunch of successive pressure changes in the molecules of some gas (air, in our case), and hence why there is no perceivable sound in space: because there is no medium for the waves to propagate through.

You, dummy, you.