RE: Your favorite Atheist Theist Debate?
February 28, 2016 at 6:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2016 at 6:54 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 27, 2016 at 6:12 pm)abaris Wrote: Personally I'm not interested in debates at all. Both sides declare their champion to be winner, and both sides feel as if their chapion owned the other participant. Can't say I consider any formal debate of any value. Goes for relligious as well as political issues. It's just an exchange of well known talking points.
What does interest me are discussions. Something where people simply sit together with a host and don't have their prepared notes on every point being made.
I find them quite useful, actually.
They help me hone my arguments, and detect fallacies in any argument.
Matt Dilahunty is a great debater. His grasp of logic and ability to find logical flaws in arguments is as good, or better than most of the big name atheists.
That debate in the OP where Sean Carroll plays the vid of Guth refuting everything Billy Craig says, is pretty darn good!
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
