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Dinesh D’Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: “God is a manmade invention.” Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D’Souza the negative.
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@jonkam10 You think there is no Maker of the function that hydrogen and most of the most common elements have inside of you.
You are wrong. All function, working parts and mechanisms always have a maker equal to or greater than whatever is made to work.
@JungleJargon That is presumptuous at a cosmological scale. Hydrogen means a creator, good one.
Thumbs up for pointing out Denesh's intellectual dishonesty at 1:15.
insults at Dinesh are not proof of anything. his positions are much better than Dennetts
Religious books are slowly being moved from the non-fiction section to the fiction section.
oh no!, your minority group (atheism) is dying, too sad!! but still 90% of the worlds population are religious!!!
dinesh already the destroyed the 4 horsemen of autism including santa claus dennet,poor atheists:(
i actually pity these poor atheists 🙁
Moroni is only one 'c' short of 'moronic.'
seriously lol, have you read their comments?
In your head only.
Atheism has declined from 3.2 to 2.3 % of the world's population in the last 10 yrs – a decline of hundreds of thousands of people. It's dying out, while Christianity is growing. In Africa alone, 1-2 million people become Christians annually. There are only so many people able to live in such a level of self-delusion in this world so as to claim God does not exist. Atheists are unimportant actually. What's important is the future, which is a theocracy. Enjoy your delusion while you have it. CYA
you are insane, any normal person can smell your shit from miles away!
thats why im not an atheist, but an Anti theist…
i could tell you the many ways a god doesnt fit into the scheme of things…
i could tell you where it does aswell, but they are so insignificant, its almost strange to called a god all powerful when other factors are more at work!
peace
-Peely
honestly, stop lying to people Neph…
Youtube knows your Audacity….
it actually hinders you, rather than getting you anywhere….
ah, so you believe that the supernatural claims of christianty must be true because its membership is growing each year? Really? Its true because alot of people believe it? Wow thats pathetic. When the whole world believed Earth was flat, it was still round bro.
As a former Comparative Religion major, I think the idea of teaching "world religions" as part of the regular school curriculum is brilliant.
I study all religions started 40 years ago have not stopped. Hindu oldest start there, I spent 4 years with Hindu, 10 years with Buddhists, Sufism, etc. 40 YEARS LATER AROUND THE GLOBAL RELIGIOUS Tour, I went Back to my Birth Religion JUDIASM. Study the saints from all religions. You tube Vive organico see presence chamber video.
Religious books have nothing to do with Fiction or Non-fiction. Mainly because you can't prove or disprove whether it's real or not. I frankly find the idea of a god as bullshit. But there will always be those followers that want to keep it alive. Trying to add god to science, to make religion more appealing and believable.
Fortunately god and religion are slowly being realized by the public as a being false. If anything religious books will make it's way to the history section instead.
Maybe you should have also taken the time to study some science?
I guess Daniel Dennett is expecting that the teachers of his proposed curriculum will be neutral in regards to the material they teach, namely religion. However, everyone has a worldview and can therefore never be neutral. So, which worldview will the teachers of his proposed curriculum hold to? A religious one? Of course not, because according to secular philosophy, they would be bias. So, I guess the appropriate alternative would be to have secular teachers because they are neutral right? Not right. Daniel Dennett wants secular views of each religion and there ethics taught to kids. Even if they do inquire further they are still holding up what further information they would learn in light of the first impression they have of each religion which might bar them from inquiring further.
Dinesh D'Souza spews out the same old bullshit that every other apologist offers nothing new, nothing intelligent, nothing worth listening to.
Christianity doesn't account for 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the universe.
The problem boils down to what J.L. Austin (How to do things with words) refers to as “the descriptive fallacy”. The sole purpose of language is not simply declarative: used to state fact. Our capacity to use language for general social coordination/interaction might well supersede the ‘reality tracking’ capacity despite the former being primary or logically prior to the later. We’re all guilty of using a pretence to (or assumption of) reality tracking as a way of subserving social interaction on a quotidian basis: conversations involving putative topics, news, anecdotes, fables, hot and cold gossip, rumour/hearsay, jokes/comedy, conspiracy, propaganda, errant or extreme values, myths, superstition, religion, mysticism, spirituality, misconception, bigotry, ignorance, white lies,…, much of what counts as philosophy, etc. It’s a group based pragmatic strategy that gets you access to all the latent goodies of being socially hooked up- like getting paid for oration. Atheists and theists are equally responsible for committing this fallacy.
Dennett has so little to say. He never really finishes a logical train of thought. He seems incapable of it. And yet he has a PhD in philosophy?