Daniel Dennett vs Dinesh D'Souza: God 1of14

Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, faced off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god.

Was God created by humans? Daniel Dennett and Dinesh D'Souza will offer up two different answers to that question in the Cabot Auditorium during a debate hosted by the Freethought Society.

In addition to being a philosophy professor at Tufts, Dennett is "one of the most well-known atheists around," according to Freethought Society President Pat Andriola. Dennett will be arguing in favor of the resolution, which states that God is a man-made invention.

D'Souza, a conservative Christian and best-selling author, will oppose it.

Provost Jamshed Bharucha will moderate the debate.

"Each debater, starting with Professor Dennett, is going to get 20 to 25 minutes to open up his case," Andriola said. Following these statements, they will get two five-minute rebuttals each.

Finally, there will be a question and answer session during which the debaters will field inquiries from the audience.

Check out these books,

"Darwin's dangerous idea" Dennett,
"What's so great about Christianity" D'Souza

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[holyshhhit]

great vid,..thanks for posting this,cheers.

[myintellectualjourny]

"The group that is the fasting growing in the world is the non-religious."

Thanks God for that.

[ndrthrdr1]

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[IbsaUtube]

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[maddtappin]

skip to 4:58 to hear Daniel Dennet

[sondano]

even if Hitler and Stalin had been motived by atheism (they were not) those people and their reign were singular episodes in history. By contrast religious violence has been going on for thousands of years with or without singular charismatic figures. In the first case the problem was the man in charge in the second the problem was a set of ideas called religion

[benthemiester]

The correlation between crime and Christianity is not cited in any peer review journal that I have found. In fact I have found article in peer review journals that state the opposite. What Dennet leaves out are other factors that are not mentioned, He hints at this bit doesn't elaborate.

[uvauva2]

Talk about an intellectual mismatch...

[myintellectualjourny]

True and I'd think a good thing. In my opinion what we need is less assumption in the world. In some sense, I see both religious fundamentalists and hardcore atheists as two sides to the same coin.

I consider myself an agnostic towards the idea of a God in general, but an atheists towards the man-made gods of religion (the same way people of most faiths are atheists towards the gods of all religions except the one of theirs.)

[kotarak]

non religious does not mean atheist

[nixonfanatic]

Boooo..

[buzybass]

DD versus DD