Category Archives: Atheism

Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God

Check this post over at Christian News. Seems the brothers-Hitchens do not get on too well.
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Debating the Origins of Life

Dr. Stephen Meyer will debate Skeptic magazine editor and Darwin defender Michael Shermer in Beverly Hills on Monday November 30. More info on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184759894536&ref=share
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MONKEY BUSINESS: Evolution and Intelligent Design

There is usually more heat then light generated in the evolution wars. However, this video is actually pretty good imo. Thanks to the Hoover Institution for making this available! embedded by Embedded Video
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From William Lane Craig’s Latest Newsletter (Sept 2009)

The following is cut and pasted (emphasis added) from Bill Craig’s latest newsletter. Lots of exciting stuff happening around the world.  I am especially interested in On Guard which sounds like a must-have item! Meanwhile, I continue work on a couple of book projects. Chad Meister and my book God Is Great, God Is Good, [...]
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William Lane Craig talks about Hitchens Debate

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Frank Turek comments on the Hitchens-Turek Debate

On Tuesday night, I debated atheist Christopher Hitchens, author of God is not Great:  How Religion Poisons Everything, at Virginia Commonwealth University. The topic was, “Does God Exist?” Thanks be to God (and to you for your prayers) because I don’t think the debate could have gone much better. There were several atheists who approached [...]
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A Hitch in Hitchens: Observations From the Turek-Hitchens Debate

Here are some observations from a Hitchens fan who was at the debate. Sounds like Turek won the debate, but Hitchens was not in great form (unwell perhaps?). Enjoy. http://rudyhenkel.livejournal.com/2726.html Anyone know where the MP3s are?
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Debate between Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens at VCU

This should be really exciting for those who like a lively debate! Frank is from this site: http://www.crossexamined.org/ Check it out. Frank is “in ya face!” and so is Christopher Hitchens — so this should be a fun debate. See a short video of Frank on his website above.
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Another debate — Frank Turek versus Christopher Hitchens

http://crossexamined.org/calendar_event.asp?d_ID=121 Debate with Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Virginia Commonwealth University VCU: Commonwealth Ballroom in the Student Commons Richmond, VA
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Bill Craig – Bill Cooke Debate

It happened in Auckland… http://mandmandmandm.blogspot.com/2008/06/battle-of-bills-review-of-craig-cooke.html My small idea of getting Dr William Lane Craig to have a debate at Auckland University ended up being an event that far exceeded my expectations. Despite the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists (NZARH) booking a larger lecture theatre at the last minute we still had to open [...]
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Websites and Blogs

Beretta (NZ) Bible Technology (NZ) Culture Watch (OZ) John Pickering (NZ) Matt Flannagan (NZ) Stand to Reason (US) Scott Mackay (NZ) Uncommon Descent (US) Dr. JP Moreland Books This is an excellent book :: the title says it all. JP calls this book the Magnum Opus of his writings. Lee Strobel Books Intelligent Design Arts [...]
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William Lane Craig coming to New Zealand

Christian News has news that W.L.C. is coming to NZ in June. Check it out here. This is huge news for those interested in apologetics as Craig is one of the best. Apparently Richard Dawkins was asked if he would debate W.L.C. and replied: "It would look good on his C.V., but not on mine." [...]
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The End of Biblical Studies

Still a Child Evangelist A Survey of the Temper Tantrums of Hector Avalos James Patrick Holding …It will become clear, however, why I have chosen my title as I have. Avalos is, like Price and Ehrman, of the worst sort of “fundy atheist” — an atheist who has not abandoned the black and white mentality [...]
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A New Edition of Apologetica Now Available!

Are Christians delusional? Read the latest edition of Apologetica for a response to Richard Dawkins attempt to answer intelligent design theorists regarding irreducible complexity. Is Natural Selection sufficient to produce the obvious elements of design found in the universe? Brian Thomas doesn’t think so! He argues that the concept of irreducible complexity eliminates the possibility [...]
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Oxford Scholar John Lennox on Atheism and Richard Dawkins

Well – has science buried God? Of course not. John Lennox answers his own question decisively. No one who understands what science really is and is not could suppose that such interment was ever on the cards. No one who understands what religion really is, beneath its sometimes ugly face, could suppose that it would [...]
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Dinesh D’Souza Debates Daniel Dennett

Thanks to Richard Dawkins dot net for this material! Description: Dinesh D’Souza, Christian and best-selling author, faced off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate was as follows: “God is a manmade invention.” Daniel Dennett argued the affirmative, and Dinesh D’Souza [...]
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God and the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Dear Professor Craig, The cumulative case for the existence for God proceeds from some data (physical constants, sentient souls, testimonies for miracles, etc.) to the existence of God as the best explanation of these data. There are some important objections. 1. Such inference does not show why theism is a better explanation than, say, the [...]
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Letter to a Maladjusted Misotheist (Sam Harris)

Published by permission (http://www.tektonics.org/gk/harrisletter.html) November 2, 2006 Dear Mr. Harris, Greetings to you. I am writing to you because I am in possession of your latest work, Letter to a Christian Nation, and I have been asked to deliver a detailed response to it, which I intend to do over the next few days. Before [...]
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William Lane Craig/Frank Zindler Debate

Ok, so this is a bit old now, but quite embarrassing for the atheist side. Check it out on the www.apollos.ws website. Craig is like a machine gun, and Zindler was supposedly the best the atheists could find!
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The problem of evil

A friend writes: Other than Ron Nash do you know of any other good resources on the problem of evil? In reply: Yes, there are lots of them. Greg Koukl at www.str.org is excellent on this; Ravi Zacharias (www.rzim.org) also has a nice piece from a Q & A session (quoted below). The key point [...]
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