Christopher Hitchens vs. William Dembski
Title: Does A Good God Exist?
Date: November 18th, 2010
Place: Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas
Audience: Students of Prestonwood Christian Academy
Full Debate: • Christopher Hitchens V...
Content:
- Atheism and science before Darwin;
- Scientists as natural philosophers;
- Newton: a genius scientist as well as a crackpot;
- Religious hostility to scientific discoveries;
- We're not the center of the universe, and it's not all about us;
- The evolution of the eye and the backwards adaptation of creatures living underground in the dark;
- Adaptability is what helps survival;
- Objectivity in science: Evidence against Interest: the honesty of saying "I really wished I could find this - this was my ambition - but here is how it wasn't compatible with the facts"
(In regards to the fruitless archeological efforts of Israeli scientists to confirm the story of the Exodus);
- Historical figures or not: Jesus and Socrates;
- To be educated is to understand how little you know and how little you understand;
- Disagreements amongst scientists; In science we don't take anything on faith, there's no dogma, we go where the evidence leads us;
- Evolution of viruses;
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