(via RichardDawkins.net)
These are only getting better.
Here’s the Intelligence Squared debate on “Atheism is the new Fundamentalism” starring Richard Dawkins, Anthony Grayling, Richard Harries, and Charles Moore. Dawkins and Grayling do a fantastic job of handling the tired and ad hominem “arguments” from the theists.
Online results from the Intelligence Squared debate on “Is Atheism the new Fundamentalism?”. I didn’t catch the “in attendance” numbers, but the “disagree” vote captured nearly ALL of the undecided vote.
Some pre-debate poll results for the Intelligence Squared debate on Atheism is the new fundamentalism with Richard Dawkins
Live Streaming available at
http://www.intelligencesquared.com/live
Come to this page at 6:45 pm GMT on Sunday November 29th to participate in the first Live Online Intelligence Squared debate:
“Atheism is the new fundamentalism” - including Richard Dawkins
Event Information:
Does God exist? Has atheism replaced religion as the new faith of the secular age? Are today’s atheists as blinkered and dogmatic as they claim religious believers to be?
Wellington Squared is a new partnership between Wellington College, one of the country’s most innovative schools, and Intelligence Squared, the world’s leading forum for debate. We’ll be bringing the greatest authorities to Wellington to battle it out over the crucial issues of the day and you’ll get the chance to cast your vote at the end of the evening.
For further information please contact David James at: daj@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
For the first time, Intelligence Squared will be live-streaming a debate. In partnership with livestation.com, from 6.45pm (GMT) on Sunday 29th November, you will be able to watch online as Richard Dawkins takes on Richard Harries, the former bishop of Oxford, at this event.
The debate will take place at: Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire.
Doors open at 6:00 pm. The debate starts at 7:00 pm and finishes at 8:30 pm.
Speakers for the motion:
Richard Harries Former Bishop of Oxford.
Charles Moore Former editor of the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator.
Speakers against the motion:
Richard Dawkins Professor Emeritus at Oxford University and best-selling author of ‘The God Delusion’.
A C Grayling Professor of Philosophy at the University of London.
Chair:
Dr Anthony Seldon Master of Wellington College.
(via RichardDawkins.net)
That’s 6:45pm GMT, so like 10:45am for us on the west coast US.
"There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot."
— Richard Dawkins, discussing Ray Comfort in an interview with CNN on November 25, 2009. (Epic win via Unreasonable Faith)
On November 24, 1859, the first edition of a book that would shake the most deeply established beliefs about life was published in London. What would eventually be known as “The Origin of Species” was the opening shot in a debate that hasn’t ended, even 150 years later.
In a series of books starting in 1976 and in his 2002 TED Talk, biologist Richard Dawkins has explored the implications of Darwin’s work. In “The Selfish Gene,” Dawkins wrote, “Living organisms had existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over 300,000 million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them. His name was Charles Darwin.”
Dawkins argues that there is no doubt that Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is true and, unlike some other scholars of the subject, says belief in evolution is not compatible with faith in religion. In fact, he argues, science and religion undermine each other.
[…]
CNN: What’s your sense of Darwin’s influence around the world?
Dawkins: Evolution is almost universally accepted among those who understand it, almost universally rejected by those who don’t.
The e-mail between CNN and Dawkins is actually quite a bit less biased than I had expected.
The article’s a good read, but make sure to check the comments for the real lunacy, containing gems like, “if science is based upon evidence why 150 yrs later is Darwin’s theory still only a THEORY? Because noone can prove it.”
Sigh. Baby steps.
Science is interesting! Hahahahaha
CH4 are running an interesting series on Christianity – now available on 40d. It features a few characters I know some fans here will like.
Watch the full series over at Ch4
(via Derren Brown Blog)
The initial video posted on Derren Brown’s Blog is fantastic, and we even get a taste of Dawkins discussing evolution. It looks as if there’s a lot more too this as well. So much interesting material comes out of the UK, sometimes I wish I lived there.
