DEBATE: Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design
Sunday, January 27th at 4pm PST, Stanford University
WHAT:
Stanford University will play host to a debate entitled Atheism vs. Theism & the Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design. This debate is being organized by student groups at Stanford: IDEA Club at Stanford,The Stanford Review and Vox Clara: A Journal of Christian Thought at Stanford.
WHO:
Chirstopher Hitchens vs. Jay Richards
Christopher Hitchens — Contributing editor to Vanity Fair; visiting professor, New School in New York; author of God is Not Great.
VS.
Jay W. Richards — Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute; co-author, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.
Hosted by Ben Stein — Journalist, author and actor in the soon-to-be released movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
Moderated by Michael Cromertie — Vice President at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; co-editor, with Richard John Neuhaus, of Piety and Politics.
WHEN:
Sunday, January 27th at 4pm PST
WHERE:
Stanford University
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
471 Lagunita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
TICKETS: You must have a ticket to attend the event. Tickets can be reserved/obtained at no charge, by emailing: idea.stanford@gmail.com You must provide this information: Name, Affiliation (“Referred by …”), # of tickets. Seating is limited and tickets will be reserved on a first come, first reserved basis. On the day of the debate there will be a table out front for reserved tickets, and you can pick them up there at the event.
Stanford’s notice:
DEBATE: Atheism vs. Theism and the Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design
Note:
“DOORS OPEN AT 2:45 PM – SHUT ABSOLUTELY AT 3:30 for LIVE BROADCAST on CCN at 3:55 PM.”
CCN TV announcement:
Atheism vs. Theism
&
The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design
“If you are not a CCN subscriber and would like information about receiving this broadcast, click here.”
well… just beat um.
Did anyone watch this or know if there is a podcast or video of the debate?
yeah, how did it go? I’ve watched Hitchens before, and quite honestly he does not appear to be very intellectual in his approach – he’s more bullying and offensive in his tactics – trying to take his opponent off guard with really insulting and angry comments.
But, I haven’t seen Richards either. So I don’t know if he is capable of presenting a good argument, especially in the face of having to respond to insulting rabbit trails that Hitchens often throws out there.
Turn to your left at the end of sky has posted his observations of the debate, including:
See the post for other comments.
glad to see someone called Hitchens on that. I always thought someone should say:
“just because you yell, doesn’t make your argument more convincing”
However, I think what Richards presented, quite honestly, is a defense of deism. So, he should have replaced the word theism with deism.
From The Stanford Daily:
It seems a little schizophrenic to appeal to objective morality in order to judge a god who supposedly doesn’t exist.
Within Hitchens’ own words is the tacit confession that barbarism, misery, ignorance, and slavery are evil.
Also, what is early death?
Hitchens argument reveals an independent basis for morality separate from Darwinism, for which he gives no explanation.
i.e., the charge of “barbarism” reveals a different moral code from the “might makes right” of “natural selection on which Darwinism is based.
The Stanford Daily report:
Hitchens knocks intelligent design
Atheist debates creation advocate Jay Richards in Dinkelspiel Auditorium
January 28, 2008
By Shelby Martin
See full article.
Ok, so where are the MP3s and YouTube videos of the debate?