Mar, 2010

Science Education Discussion

More and more I discover youtube as a resource for documentaries, interviews and debates. Here is another, very entertaining and stimulating discussion about science education with Lawrence Krauss (physicist) and Richard Dawkins (Biologist).
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Turek vs. Hitchens Debate: Does God Exist?

Turek vs. Hitchens Debate: Does God Exist? from Andrew Ketchum on Vimeo.

Hm, I sense a trend in the current topics here. Anyway, an entertaining debate that again reveals that theist and atheist often can not understand each other because they think so fundamentally different. I felt that on occasion, both debaters could have done a better job in dismantling their opponents* arguments instead of hammering home their own agendas, but compared to most political debates from the German parlament I witness, I am not really complaining. Still, a few points I like to add:

  • Why does Turek shout so much?
  • I am quite disappointed that Hitchens does not give good answers to Turek’s main points: That the Big Bang had to be initiated by God, that without God, there could be no moral and that DNA is too complex to be not designed.**
  • I think Hitchens actually did a rather poor job, but he still came out victorious easily.

* Still, I love how American debates are basically sports events.
** My answers would be that a) how does assuming an initiator setting off the Big Bang add anything to its understanding? And where would the initiator come from? b) the interesting question is how consciousness is created by molecules alone, morale is a social consequence c) it is not.

Richard Dawkins on the Agenda

Richard Dawkins is interviewed on the Canadian show “The Agenda”. It’s definitely one of the better, more challenging interviews with him, even though the host clearly is a Christian. But he still manages to be a journalist first.

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The first four parts are the interview, after that, it’s a discussion panel that is not that interesting because Dawkins is not present to reply.

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