Frank Turek vs. Christopher Hitchens (II): What Best Explains Reality - Theism or Atheism?

Filmed at The College of New Jersey, Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens meet again in their second debate to give their arguments for what best explains reality. The title is "What Best Explains Reality: Atheism or Theism?" Recorded at the College of New Jersey! Read comments in the CrossExamined blog here http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=117 . If you'd like to order a DVD of this debate, click http://bit.ly/ihYBZa).

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[NirvanaFan5000]

8 minutes in and already facepalming. Hitchens is gonna eat this guy alive.

[philpotsly]

Wow, I can see why Turek was so keen to have a closing statement, nothing like emotional blackmail despite the anecdote being applicable to Hitchens' point, where moralism and theism are not mutually inclusive entities. Trust such a poorly reasoned, incongruous statement to come from that liar and hypocrite.

[JohnTremblay76]

Scuba, don't worry, most people see frank for the retarded tool he is.

[ScubaSctimpy]

wrong frank thermodynamics does NOT prevent the universe from expanding and contracting and expanding again in an endless cycle.

secondly frank if time had a beginning then by definition there was no change before time began, if there is no change then NOTHING AND NO-ONE COULD CREATE OR CAUSE ANYTHING

[ScubaSctimpy]

frank your false dichotomy fools no one

[ScubaSctimpy]

"john wasn't there?" john demonstrably did not write john. a he was dead, b john changes in literature styles in dramatic ways giving evidence that john has multiple authors

[ScubaSctimpy]

yay 46 minutes in and what i predicted has happened. frank has violated the law of causality that his entire argument is based upon.

[ScubaSctimpy]

gah ffs no morality isn't objective we are taught it by SOCIETY and its a trial and error development process

[ScubaSctimpy]

dna information comparisons are METAPHORS intended to make it easier to explain jesus does frank not understand the idea of metaphors?

[Javis586]

I think Frank Turek composed himself and presented his points extremely well... for a religious adherent.

[Freethinker1958]

Do you think that the delusional believer in supernatural fairytales drinks a little too much coffee? Isn't it just a plain old miracle that the sky-spook clearly communicated with Turek but kind of ignored me and Hitchens. Turek is so lucky to have met the one and only sky-fairy. Well, good for Frank. There is no way that he could have just talked himself into his religious beliefs.

[Vainslain]

@BtArocks3133 if by divine revelation you mean God then there's nothing wrong with that. Why would we even believe that logic even make sense in a naturalistic universe?