by girlfreddy » October 30th, 2008, 11:03 pm
I just finished watching the first video also. What a treat it was, watching two highly intelligent people debate such a subject.
Anyway, my impression tended to lean towards Dawkins being quite surprised at not winning every point, as I'm sure he is usually able to. Lennox was relaxed, disciplined and quite adept at listening to each and every point that Dawkins expounded upon, and then argued or agreed in such a passionate way, and yet still countered Dawkins well.
One thing that did stick in my mind was where Dawkins spoke of "faith vs. evidence" (about a 1/3 of the way through) and Lennox kind of nailed him on it a bit. Kind of funny really, for I've heard that argument used often.
Although I had to pause this half-way to run out a get a Halloween costume for my great-niece and therefore didn't really get the full effect of it, I still quite enjoyed myself.
Makes me wonder if the Oxford debate is online too.
How would telling people to be nice to one another get a man crucified? What government would execute Mister Rogers or Captain Kangaroo?
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