Blog Talk Radio - Atheist / Christian Dialogue

[Tiberius]

I was recently on a 1 hour internet radio show where 2 atheists were discussing various questions with 3 Christians. It was meant to be 3 atheists but one person had a bad connection. Anyway, I think I did quite well:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomist/...t-dialogue

I'm not sure, but I think I'll be on the next three as well. I'll post the other episodes if I am on them, or you can listen live at 4PM EST on Sundays at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomist

[leo-rcc]

I already listened to the first 20 minutes or so and felt my IQ dropping when I heard the response from that woman about teaching creationism that I just had to stop.

[Paul the Human]

I'm at that point right now. I not listening anymore. I've relegated her voice to dark recesses of my mind and will listen again when she shuts up.

[tavarish]

When I heard that there is a difference between creationism/ID then I just skipped to Adrian's responses.

[Paul the Human]

Okay, I've listened to the whole thing and rather enjoyed it. Adrian, you did extremely well. I thought you were the most reasoned and intelligible one there. Kudos!

The moderator wasn’t too bad. She seemed relatively fair, for the most part. One thing she said really bothered me, though, and I wanted badly to rebut her on it. To paraphrase what she said: ‘Evolution by Natural Selection cannot be empirically proven and neither can Creationism and/or Intelligent Design, so neither should be taught as fact.’

Evolution by Natural Selection is supported by an impressive amount of demonstrable, empirical evidence. Creationism and/or Intelligent Design are not supported by any demonstrable, empirical evidence. At what point does one declare ‘proof’? There is only one intellectually honest conclusion. One is Science and the other is Dogma.

I just had to get that off my chest. Thank you and Goodnight!

[Tiberius]

Indeed, the first two shows (which I was not a part of) contained 3 atheists who seemed to spend more time interrupting and criticising Juanita than actually having a discussion. Whilst I understand Rob's position on her being a moderator and part of the discussion, I didn't see anything wrong with how she went about doing it; she didn't interrupt people, and she certainly didn't hog the microphone.