Comments on: Hitchens @ Christian Book Expo 2009 (12/12)

By: tiocfaidharla1

tiocfaidharla1 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:43:42 +0000

0:29 – “When you …
0:29 – “When you look at the human cell and you look at the complexities of the world around us, there’s much more going on, there’s much more of a prima facie case for a designer than I think the militant atheists want to let on”.

Are we to understand from this that Wilson is an evolution skeptic? Very peculiar turn of phrase if not.

By: hyams1

hyams1 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:43:41 +0000

the only question i …
the only question i ask is if god created the world y did he create drugs that grow on our planet..if u say the devil put them there to tempt us isnt it fair to say the devil cud ov put babanas or dogs an ne1 who has contact with them wil also go to hell…answer plz.

By: lookitup3

lookitup3 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:43:41 +0000

I don’t get how …
I don’t get how anyone can say that the cell is complex if he had at least looked at it.
The universe is complex, I admit, but not in the sense that it’s unknowable and divine. It’s just more tedious and laborious to study.

By: paxson001

paxson001 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:43:40 +0000

@hyams1 I have a …
@hyams1 I have a friend who would definitely agree that the devil created bananas…

By: paxson001

paxson001 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:43:40 +0000

@MrEBassist Yeah, …
@MrEBassist Yeah, for sure. Atheist debaters often have trouble combating the claim that they have no basis for morality. That’s not to say that the religious perspective on morality is better (or even coherent), but we seem to have a need to feel that morality is “objective,” and it’s hard for atheists to ground morality in anything more than philosophy, which can feel a little wobbly.

By: paxson001

paxson001 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:43:40 +0000

@camilocuesta. …
@camilocuesta. Agreed. Hitchens has a few lines that he habitually falls back on, even when they’re not really direct answers. I always thought his comment about God sitting on his hands for 98,000 years was strange. If you believe in God, it’s perfectly reasonable to believe that God was tinkering with people’s lives back then, too.