Live Online Intelligence Squared debate with RD

[Chinaski]

I found more interesting arguments in the audience than in the panel.

Yes, there were a couple of really good points put to the panel which I'd like to have seen get more attention.

I think the thing was more a spectacle than a debate but, like others, was most impressed with Grayling.

Same. Grayling should get out more.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

About 20 Godwin's Law cases in the first 2 theist speeches.

Ayep, and they got their cue cards straight from here

Any one of us could have dealt with their bollocks with a similar result.

Did anyone else think that they could've answered questions better than Dawkins and Grayling? I definitely had a few instances :S I think the Stalin/Mao/Pol Pot thing wasn't hammered home well enough, for example. Or what constitutes truth. Or the accusation that they're really agnostics (he should have brought up "teapot agnosticism" or "FSM agnosticism").

"Man kommt um den Gottesbegriff nicht um" ("You cannot get around the concept of God"), Adolf Hitler.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I found more interesting arguments in the audience than in the panel.

Yes, there were a couple of really good points put to the panel which I'd like to have seen get more attention.

I think the thing was more a spectacle than a debate but, like others, was most impressed with Grayling.

Same. Grayling should get out more.

They needed Grayling and Hitchens for a real yin-yang team.

[GenesForLife]

I think the yankee two... Dennett and Harris, are a lot milder than the Hitch, who rocks, and Dawkins

[Chinaski]

I think the yankee two... Dennett and Harris, are a lot milder than the Hitch, who rocks, and Dawkins

They're a lot better at destroying opponent's arguments though, having backgrounds in philosophy rather than biology and journalism.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think the yankee two... Dennett and Harris, are a lot milder than the Hitch, who rocks, and Dawkins

Yeah, they're cerebral. Hitch, now a Yankee, btw, is my fav. He'd have been fun in a 37-footer with a machine gun in his hands.

[GenesForLife]

I think the yankee two... Dennett and Harris, are a lot milder than the Hitch, who rocks, and Dawkins

They're a lot better at destroying opponent's arguments though, having backgrounds in philosophy rather than biology and journalism.

Isn't Harris a neuroscientist? He even got a recent paper out on the biology of belief

[Chinaski]

I think the yankee two... Dennett and Harris, are a lot milder than the Hitch, who rocks, and Dawkins

They're a lot better at destroying opponent's arguments though, having backgrounds in philosophy rather than biology and journalism.

Isn't Harris a neuroscientist? He even got a recent paper out on the biology of belief

Also, but he has a degree of some sort in philosophy, I can't remember the details.

[floppit]

For Dev, my book is 'The Meaning of Things', it's a really likeable read and I'm glad to have dug it out again. Any of the others than stand out?

[Animavore]

For Dev, my book is 'The Meaning of Things', it's a really likeable read and I'm glad to have dug it out again. Any of the others than stand out?

I have that and two others. The Heart of Things and The Mystery of Things. All excellent (although I'm only half-way through THOT).