Your favorite Atheist Theist Debate?

[Nuda900]

What is your favorite debate? I like allot of debates: but this one is among the best (funny).

[rexbeccarox]

What is your favorite debate? I like allot of debates: but this one is among the best (funny).

I tend to like the ones that get my blood boiling, which I realized at some point wasn't great for my health

I think the one that got me feeling most like a 7/11 hot dog on a spit was the conversation between Richard Dawkins and Wendy Wright. I just wanted to shake him and scream at him to start getting rude!

Here's part one:

[abaris]

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.

[Nuda900]

Same here....I like the ones that make me kind of mad.....it is like an addiction....

[brewer]

What abaris said.

[abaris]

Same here....I like the ones that make me kind of mad.....it is like an addiction....

I had to learn the distinction between debate and discussion. In my language there's no clearly drawn line between the two of them. At least not in the popular use of the words.

Discussions have the advantage of people having to react on the fly. It tells much more about how the participants really think on certain issues. And they also give some impressions on how educated people are on the matters at hand.

[Nuda900]

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I had to learn the distinction between debate and discussion. In my language there's no clearly drawn line between the two of them. At least not in the popular use of the words.

Discussions have the advantage of people having to react on the fly. It tells much more about how the participants really think on certain issues. And they also give some impressions on how educated people are on the matters at hand.
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Do you have any good examples? I liked the Kagan Craig "discussion".

[abaris]

Do you have any good examples? I liked the Kagan Craig "discussion".

I watched a few with Dawkins, since he's the only prominent atheist I can stand. No, I haven't got any examples, since I stumbled over them when browsing the web. One that's still in my memory, was him, among others, sitting down for a talkshow on some Australian network. His main opponent was some Australian bishop, who later moved on to Rome. But, to tell the truth, I can't even remember the topic being discussed.

[Cephus]

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 have to agree with you.  I used to watch a lot of debates until I realized that they're all the same.  Idiot theists saying stupid things and ignoring reality.  That's not entertaining.  That's frustrating.  I have no interest in being frustrated.  I've got better things to do.

[Simon Moon]

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!