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Best debate videos?

Posted on: January 24, 2008 - 7:13pm

Slice

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Best debate videos?

Hey guys and girls, I recently was shown the Hitchens V. D'souza debate by my Bible teacher (the debate video directly taken from D'souza's site... Guess who that video highlights?) and was 'challenged' to provide my own debate videos for show. I can use as many as I like, so I'm going for as much good material as possible - so far, I've got the unadulterated D'souza Hitchens debate, the RRS V. WOTM ABC debate, and the Hitchens V. Hannity debate for humor. So right now, I'm a little dry on content :P Anyone got any good debates for me to bring in? Any favorites?

Thanks a ton, everyone.

Posted on: January 25, 2008 - 11:51am #1

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http://midwestatheist.blogsp

http://midwestatheist.blogspot.com/search/label/--Debate

This might be a good place to look.

Posted on: January 25, 2008 - 2:12pm #2

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I can't watch D'Souza, he

I can't watch D'Souza, he annoys the shit out of me. However I think Shermer did a little better job with him than Hitchens.

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2007/02/dinesh-shermer-debate3/

While these aren't "debates" you should check out this series as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5vid4GkEY

One thing you may want to note about formal debates is that they're very seldomly a good way to have a good conversation on a topic. A common theist tactic, which makes them very fond of formal debates mind you, is to pile on as much dishonest, false, misrepresentative crap as possible so the "other guy" feels obligated to start disecting the crap.

The theist then likes to claim the other side "has no point" because all they did was "complain." This is knocking all the checkers off the board and proclaiming victory.