Speaker: Sam Harris Playlist: www.youtube.com The “LaCiudad de las Ideas 2009 Re-Evolution” Festival witnessed a very exciting event, where great theologists, philosophers and thinkers debated over the eternal conflict between science and religion, reason with faith and Darwin vs The Bible. The opinions and views expressed are strong, we recommend open-mindedness for its enjoyment. Debaters: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (new atheists) vs. Shmuley Boteach, Dinesh D’Souza, Nassim Taleb (theists), and Robert Wright (neutral). Original full-length video (2:16:26): www.youtube.com With Spanish narration (2:22:42): www.youtube.com YouTube channel: LaCiudaddelasIdeas
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@neilandbobbie Yes Sam is very close to being as good as Dawkins,,,,he maybe better in some areas than Dawkins at slapping faith.
@Prophiscient LOL,,,,nice comeback,,,,
sam, rolled those guys up and smoked em. nuff said.
@arhyth I apologize, I realized after commenting that you had specified that it’s the “idea of God” which people hate. But even so I think it makes little sense in the context. I’m an atheist, and I don’t believe there is a God because that’s the conclusion I’ve come to after thinking about it; emotion plays no role.
@arhyth Who said anything about hating God? The majority of atheists would never claim to hate the christian God any more than they would claim to hate Zeus; the emotion makes little sense in the given context.
@arhyth I think you answered your own question very nicely. The IDEA of god.
what’s with the bruises around his eyes? angry christian mob? suicide puncher
no srsly?
I like to eat oranges.
This should be relabeled “How to Destroy Christianity in Four Minutes”
@msalazarx Yes! And Pinker is a great addition too, but I mean… last year’s with Dennet, Harris and Hitchens, Jerry Coyne and Dan Ariely… it was just… damn
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL “The arrogance is on part of those who would put their IRON AGE FAITHS in the place of genuine scientific ignorance.” THANK YOU. And I will NEVER EVER forgive myself for not assisting this talk. I hate myself.
I wonder why many people hate the idea of God if there is no such God at all.
Dawkins is coming this year event in noviembre to Puebla yeah
Harry potter casting a spell = Witchcraft
Jesus casting a spell = Miracle
This video should be named “Sam Harris owns Christianity”.
@Prophiscient And if people can believe this stuff in 2010, it doesn’t surprise me at all that they definitely believed it about 2000 years ago.
Its interesting, I always see the highest rated comments on these kinds of video on Youtube being Atheistic in nature, and yet we only make up a teeny tiny fraction of the worlds population…Somethings gotta give. Time to come out of the closet, brothers and sisters, the world has lived under the dogmas of ancient books of mysticism for FAR too long.
very intersting. thank you.
damn, harris just fucked all chrisians with that speech
@OJB42 well, the special privelage was’nt really gave to them, they simply slaughtered the opposers. i honestly think that many christians wish that they would have not stopped killing atheist and other religious people because they would not have to think when we give them sound arguments against their total and utter bullshit beleifs
Harris is right again, as he almost always is. Theists often deride those of us who reject the God claim as “arrogant” and accuse us of pretending to know it all. The reality is quite the opposite. It is the theists who claim to have the answers, and often use our ignorance of the details of the “Big Bang” as an opening to insert a theistic God.
Sam Harris Epic Win
SHEW–> Glad I’m on the side of reason.
I’m so glad Christianity is a bunch of lies. Life would suck if the god of the bible was real.
Bam! I’m an atheist now. In less then 5 minutes!
He makes a very good point. Despite thousands of years of trying there is still zero credible evidence supporting the Gospels. Really if they were written about any other subject people would just laugh at them (many still do). Good to see the special privilege given to Christian mythology is beginning to disappear.