Jacoby-Shermer Debate, 6/10

I'm getting bored quickly here. Give me a minute of a Hitchens debate over an hour of these guys any day.

Shermer sucks at debates :(

approx. 05:45: 'truth telling'...

Think about this...if we teach our kids that lying is acceptable, what will they do? Lie.

Since religion is the biggest lie out there, I think it is ingrained in people's minds that it is okay to lie...that, or they just think they'll be forgiven when they start marathon praying when they're on their death beds. :(

"Time!"

The hell is wrong with that moderator?!

Geez he avoided answering that question didn't he...

>"there is no evidence for goblins, yeti, martians and unicorns outside of fantasy stories."

Neither is there for the existence of god. All so-called 'evidence' for the existence of god is based on assumptions, wishful thinking, cognitive dissonance and deliberate distortions of scientific facts.

The cosmological constant is not evidence for an 'orderer' of the universe - not a single scientist has ever been able to prove it is, ever.

Can I add eating pork to that list please! And the sale of slaves and daughters...

>"as for life on other planets, fine. but where are they?"

Astronomers estimate there are 10_21 (10 with 21 zeroes) stars in the universe. With a conservative estimate of three planets per star (some could have many more, some would have none at all) this puts the estimated number of planets into millions of billions. The actual number of planets in the universe is difficult to ascertain. However, we do know that the number is very very large.

>"something that is eternal and did not just happen to start when the universe started"

If the universe "started" in the first place, which is an assumption. Even if the big bang happened, which all the evidence points to, that still does not prove that there was nothing before that. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that suggests that the universe can not be eternal.