Part 1 - 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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[Whoknowsuknow]

They should put a comment board under youtube videos so we can all post anonymously and be jerks to one another.

[Gibran Khan]

Skip to 4:40

[Peter Knopfler]

5773 years of Jewish History and Yet only 15 million Jews, Christians thousands of years less,2013 compared to 5773, yet 2 Billion Christians. Islam not yet 1500 years 1.3 billion people. So why only such few Jews, yet thousands more years of History. Know History No Surprises.

[rollak4]

it comes from the backward mid west were 88% percent of people were illiterate and there were many false prophets people were paranoid afraid and stupid they had no idea why there crops would die they would blame god or there neighbors for witch craft and want to kill them..idk religion was born from a ignorant illiterate stupid culture 2000+ years ago.. people are stupid today try to imagine how stupid they were back then

[jacopman]

it is a construct of a nomadic tribal war culture that had a huge insecurities behind ownership of land........

[rollak4]

the story of god is a bad joke

[jacopman]

In regards to the Abrahamic religions.

Iif humans did not exist..what would God do?

Everything God does involves the events and activities of humans on Earth....if we are gone what does he do?

The Bible says God made man in his image (sorry ladies) because after he made all creation becuase he was lonely...but he had all his hevenly beings he created to keep him company?

God is so male human centric its obvious men created this deity with all the cultural baggage of that time.

[Joseph Kitchens]

Having watched the whole series of videos I can say without a doubt one thing. Seems to me the arguement that a particle so small it was considered nothing, expanded so large and rapidly it came apart and contained enough mass to create the whole universe seems just as sci-fi an idea as God created Adam and Eve.

[MrTheAlexandrepiano]

What happens at 9:58?

[Andy Holmes]

Also let clarify the responding argument:

Premise: Abiogenesis is a tricky problem and is rather unlikely

Conclusion: Therefore one god depicted in a book written by some men before the advent of the wheelbarrow is a better answer

I call this Reductio Add Absurdum