The Source of Human Morality Debate (part 1/9)

Part One of "the Source of Human Morality" debate held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on 11/16/2010.

[This video is a copy of the original video produced by the channel umbcOCF]. Comments have been removed on the original videos, please feel free to comment here.

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The rest of the debate will be uploaded shortly!

"Matt Dillahunty is the president of the Atheist Community of Austin, and host of the popular public access television and internet show "The Atheist Experience." He was raised as a fundamentalist Baptist, and was on track to become a minister until he started asking questions about the reasons for his belief. He rejected religion, and now serves as a public voice for rationality and secular morality.

Father Hans Jacobse is an Antiochian Orthodox Priest, who administers the website Orthodoxy Today and heads the American Orthodox Institute. Fr. Hans is convinced that Orthodox Christianity has an important part to play in American moral renewal. He views the current world as a battle between competing moral visions of the secular and the sacred, and hopes that Christianity can restore the moral tradition of the gospels. "

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[secularUMBC]

@un000890 Hahah yes indeed. Please spread the word!

[ArranoGris]

Fr. Jacobse is fallacious, deceptive, contradictory, condescending and off-topic during the vast majority of this "debate". In fact, later on it felt like he maybe just gave up on even trying to "debate" and started acting like he was at the pulpit.

[SimoonSam]

Matt D has convinced me to shave my head.

[slytherinspy1960]

umbcOCF version of this disabled the comments....of course

[Morahg]

Matt D is awesome.

[WorBlux]

I like this pro guy, and would like to contribute a few points.

First this is nothing new, classical philosophers talked about right reason. Even Aquinas and Grotius used this approach to a large degree.

Secondly I believe what he's talking about at the end is the use of dialectic to double check moral conclusions.

Third, just to be clear I don't think it's about values held, but values that are to be perused. It is a question of which values best fit into the human causal structure/life.

[Pelonetillo]

is also a douche

[justintempler]

If you would like to see how the theists viewed the debate it can be seen on

The American Orthodox Institute website:

tinyurl . c o m /37w364s

Make sure you read the recent comments in the right hand column labeled recent comments.

[LoopuleasaIonut]

morality is a beneficial social behaviour

[aajoeyjo]

That's some nice debatin' there, Matt!

[minesoriginal]

"we have to define our terms" then goes on to talk about what atheism is. far better to attack then have to defend when you have nothing to protect yourself with.

[PerilocutionAZ09]

I don't understand why the fr. tries to have it both ways. He says that atheism is necessarily materialistic, but then says eugenics is necessarily (or at least in practice, which is still dubious) atheistic, and targeted Jews because their very genomes apparently represent a non-materialistic entity/ideology. How is this materialism? The selection criteria used in eugenics had nothing to do with Darwinism, and could not have been derived from the current materialistic understanding of genetics.