Christopher Hitchens vs William Dembski

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  • @RobertSmith-ot4fd
    @RobertSmith-ot4fd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Watching Hitch habitually push back his non-existant hair as he speaks is soul-crushing. What a great mind; a mind sorely-missed and greatly needed in today's world.

    • @josephno1347
      @josephno1347 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      neurotic any? like the person distracted by "and, um,da"

    • @benhartart9487
      @benhartart9487 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Soul crushing? Hardly

    • @joshjackson678
      @joshjackson678 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@benhartart9487that’s because you have no soul, or a brain lol 😂

  • @lukeball8500
    @lukeball8500 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Hitchens last remarks is the most beautiful speech I've ever heard

  • @aranaran1189
    @aranaran1189 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Watched the entire debate. I've been a fan of Christopher Hitchens for quite some time, and I honestly feel that this may have been his finest debate performance, at least out of those I've watched. Especially his closing argument; Dembski probably should have agreed to give over his time for more questions, because those final remarks by Hitchens were absolutely brilliant.

    • @nash984954
      @nash984954 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dembski's a dope. Hitch was always a class act, anybody else and his RIGHTward shift would have been treason, but he must have had his reasons, soon after his shift, he learned ironically, his throat the device so important to him, his livelihood and to so many of us fans, and followers.

    • @rekunta
      @rekunta 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      His closing here always brings me to tears. Beautiful and courageous statement he makes that encapsulates his entire life philosophy.

    • @Drunkbobnopantss
      @Drunkbobnopantss 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      if you havent you should watch the munk debate vs tony blair
      IMO thats his best

  • @merrybolton2135
    @merrybolton2135 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    What a loss Christopher Hitchens As great today as he was in life . Today we can relive his critical thinking . This man has done more to make people think ,then any Pope ,ayatollah ,Archbishop , Buddha mistic , or Hindu preacher . What a loss to humanity

  • @no-oneman.4140
    @no-oneman.4140 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    December the 15th 2011 - the day the world became a much dumber place. So missed, such a loss.

    • @benhartart9487
      @benhartart9487 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Smart people need dump people or else why be smart 😂

  • @jimdeighan7078
    @jimdeighan7078 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    LMAO at 31 mins in when Dumbski is describing how 'perfectly created' the human eye is... THROUGH HIS GLASSES!

  • @markiacomini956
    @markiacomini956 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Christopher Hitchens.......My star of Bethlehem.

    • @woodytheduke
      @woodytheduke ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and water walker,,,

    • @arcanuslosanara2823
      @arcanuslosanara2823 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@woodytheduke And water-to-wine transformer.

  • @reisekeller6859
    @reisekeller6859 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I thought this "paper professor" was going to prove God's existence and goodness... still waiting.

  • @dawnvickerstaff
    @dawnvickerstaff ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I would rather listen to hours and hours of Christopher Hitchens than minor minutes of William Dembski.

  • @gregorypatricksmith8611
    @gregorypatricksmith8611 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It’s so ridiculous how stupid people can be… there is no Jesus… there is no god… nothing happens when you die… when you understand this you will live life with a purpose…Love each other .. that’s all we have

  • @ianmccutcheon2528
    @ianmccutcheon2528 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A truly great man CH who I only recently discovered but have had the same train of thought on religion for years. No way I could put my points across in the same manner he so eloquently did., his tone alone garners interest, without the solid content. Religion is almost comical to me, the amount of people that die each year in its many names is shameful. When the doctrines of religion are dissected by clever, knowledgeable people like CH, it really does put in the comedic bracket. My comments on here are not to incite or belittle people of faith. I just wish that rational thought would be elevated above the brainwashing and hatred that is obviously passed down through the generations.

  • @AFMMarcelD
    @AFMMarcelD 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I know I am not going to live forever and neither are you, but until my furlough here on earth is revoked, I’d like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my tumbler of Johnnie Walker Black 🥃 in honor of the brilliant intellect that was Christopher Hitchens, may his courageous ideals against oppression and delusions keep inspiring freethinkers until the end of human extinction.
    I sorely miss him. 💐

    • @paramidge8935
      @paramidge8935 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Tribute indeed - well said.

  • @emiliog.4432
    @emiliog.4432 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A great debate. Hitchens at his most polite, showing great respect to all. Hitchens left us too soon. His views make total sense to me. Never a true believer and became a deist or a secular person. If there is a “God”, we are a failed experiment. I believe are brains are too small so we invent. Human beings are barbaric and cruel. Who would make that?

  • @charleseuchner347
    @charleseuchner347 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Oh, my. Dembski is a real piece of work. “I can no longer get a job…” Hitch must have had a good laugh after this clash.

  • @Spamcloud
    @Spamcloud 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Imagine arguing for the existence of Abraham Lincoln for ten minutes and concluding that you have taken the audience into the "ballpark" of his existence. That would be ridiculous. Why is the standard of for proving God's existence so much lower?

  • @MarkLewis-dz8pp
    @MarkLewis-dz8pp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hitch crushed that lightweight Christian apologist.

  • @DonaldKronos
    @DonaldKronos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    At 32:03 Dembski admits that evolution is part of reality, in the middle of trying to convince the audience that it's not. Regardless of whether his claim is true, that HE could write a computer program that evolves Richard Nixon into Christophe Hitchens, and regardless of whether he meant evolves an image of one into an image of the other or evolves one's DNA into the other's DNA or evolves one's 3D body shape into the other's 3D body shape or whatever he might have meant, the fact remains that he openly admitted that a computer program can evolve something. Not just simulate the evolution of something, but actually evovle something. That is to say, a computer program can make changes to something in such a way that the changes add up or accumulate. Such accumulation of change, a process commonly known as evolution, is a part of the reality we live in.... and William Dembski openly admitted that fact in the process of trying to refute that same fact.

    • @vincentkalafate43
      @vincentkalafate43 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Take The MONEY out of Religion, and There wouldn't be Much of It ! Most of The Vocal Supporters of Religion , Exploit It For Easy Money !

  • @misterx3188
    @misterx3188 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    14:39 - If a God exist he(?) is certainly not on our side. Just look how much pain and cruelty and injustice is in the world he threw us in. And he doesn't help us. EVERYTHING that helps us in this world comes from ourselves. Science, technology, understanding of nature. God gave us nothing.

  • @gm-wv2yt
    @gm-wv2yt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I don’t understand how the the christian kept saying “there isn’t evidence for that. “ lol the irony in this statements just got under my skin so badly lol

  • @avedic
    @avedic 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The fact that, after *_hundreds of years_*, Christians *_STILL_* don't know the difference between a _theory_, a _hypothesis_, and a mere personal *_opinion_*....blows my mind. It's a simple thing to grasp and take on board; yet most people seem *_incapable_* of understanding the difference. I do not get it. I hold myself to a _very_ high standard of intellectual awareness, so I can't help but be amazed at the ignorance of others.

    • @65Z01
      @65Z01 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      avedic Theists are (mostly) brainwashed as youths to fear a vengeful, tyrannical god and even worse to love said a crewel tyrant. Having been raised as a Catholic, I fully understand that desperate need to "believe". What a struggle it was to come to terms with my own mortality.

    • @avedic
      @avedic 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +65Z01 I haven't even really come to terms with it. I will die. Everyone does. That's ok. It honestly doesn't worry me much at all. I fear my loved ones dying...but the mortality of life is ok. What else could it be? I trust that the universe "knows" what it's doing....so to speak.

  • @peterrenner5427
    @peterrenner5427 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    gotta give Dembski credit just for being up there and trying haha

  • @JTStonne
    @JTStonne 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I get tired of hearing apologists use science to prove anything.

  • @woodytheduke
    @woodytheduke 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    you can't fix stupid,,,,but the best attempt I have ever seen! Nice try CH

  • @Kevin-iv3lv
    @Kevin-iv3lv 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Remember that one time hitch was an intellectual mass murderer? Hitch!
    "What is this ? This is like being an insect or a rodent in a laboratory of a very cruel & stupid person" hahaha
    I started thinking this when I was a teenager. Couldn't ever rebut that argument to myself. Still holds. Thank you Hitch. You were a force to be reckoned with.

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Someone once tried to tell me my speech was heresy but he said heresay 😂😂

  • @cinedux
    @cinedux 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Crikey,a year old and only fifteen hundred viewers.Seems most people don't give a toss!

  • @BenjaminIMeszaros
    @BenjaminIMeszaros 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dembski has decent ideas but just can’t deliver them properly at all. Hitchens just whips the floor with him in likability and understandability. Dembski is awkwardly on his back foot the whole time. And this is critique coming from a theist. 😅

  • @althomas6045
    @althomas6045 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    7:04 start

  • @russellhammond371
    @russellhammond371 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm still shocked that Christians gave a thunderous applause for Dembski's claim, "we're dead already." What repulsive, immoral rhetoric.

  • @Paine137
    @Paine137 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hitchslaps galore.

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who's William Demski?

    • @Pillion1
      @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Suppos I'm about to find out

  • @MissAPierce
    @MissAPierce 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh, no! I'm viewer number 666!

    • @jaydenwilson9522
      @jaydenwilson9522 ปีที่แล้ว

      kinda crazy how you can place them on top of each other and make a 3 petaled flower ;)

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I dont like aThe Grammar Police but that was funny AF 😂😂😂

  • @timcrowe8696
    @timcrowe8696 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Christian guy gave some trash arguments. He basically has a God of the gaps argument, the gaps have just gotten smaller. He also focuses way too much on Hitchens previous publications instead of making an argument for God.

  • @digitalvei
    @digitalvei 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    William is deeply deluded

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some animals like certain types of predatory birds have brilliant eyesight in the dark because their prey don't. Thats Evolution 😂😂😂

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good eyesight only needed for animals not nocturnal. That's Evolution! 😂😂

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why on Earth would you explain God to an Athiest? Human DNA is human DNA.😂😂

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All animals communicate. They don't talk.

    • @Odonta7
      @Odonta7 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only because they don’t have to in their particular niche but may in the future!

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loots of animals don't sense light. What about Bats? 😂

  • @johnferrandino4666
    @johnferrandino4666 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dembski is one dishonest dude. All he did was scapegoat

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Getting right on my last nerve, Dr 😂😂

  • @ossiedunstan4419
    @ossiedunstan4419 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    soon as demski opened his lying trap he lost the debate.

  • @jeffersonianideal
    @jeffersonianideal 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    At the 1:27:58 mark: Dr. Dembski announces, "I would say intelligent design is friendly to Christian theism."
    Merely "friendly?" I'll go further than that. I'd say the two have been engaging in a biblically paired, mutually satisfying tryst for centuries. Freethinking and scientific discovery has the provided the oculars necessary to finally catch them in the act.

  • @kewakl8891
    @kewakl8891 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @1:25:15 shameless plugging
    @1:26:13 atheism was much more a minority position in the ancient world. -- When it is enforced by religion-infested governments what else can you expect?
    @1:33:36 are we conflating drought-mom's real existential crisis to prom-mom's perceived inconvenience?
    @1:37:00 this is a broken, fallen world -- how do the actions of the created totally break the intelligent design of an omnipotent, omniscient creator?
    @1:37:48 god is dealing with bad options -- god is neither omnipotent nor omniscient if he cannot deal with these options -- oh wait, he floods the planet and delivers multiple plagues -- that is how he deals with a broken, fallen world that he created! his grand plan?
    @1:53:25 the bible is not a book of systematic theology...it's messy -- but it is purportedly the divinely-inspired word of your god! Does this, then, mean that your god (and your god's word) is messy?
    @1:53:33 it's messy.. and the world is messy, but it captures that messiness -- because it is/was a man-made book
    @2:14:34 (wrt: dembski's challenge) why wouldn't you like to meet shakespeare? -- what makes you think that shakespeare is in heaven? what makes you think that shakespeare would like to meet me? would shakespeare have any choice in the likelihood of the encounter?
    @2:15:23 I will leave it to the viewer to incorporate the remainder of hitchen's closing remarks into your respective world-views.

  • @tomaspianist
    @tomaspianist 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    why are these discussions so long? They are not so interesting.

    • @jaydenwilson9522
      @jaydenwilson9522 ปีที่แล้ว

      its more of a debate format for opposing ideas..... gladiators of word... unfortunately it last longer than a fight lol

    • @bensonbrett30
      @bensonbrett30 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Maybe it’s the listener? 😊

  • @zaddyjacquescormery6613
    @zaddyjacquescormery6613 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I cringe every time I hear Hitchens translate “Gott mit uns” as “God is on our side.” It literally translates to “God with us,” word for word. He’s paraphrasing to give it more weight, but I don’t see any need for that-I wish he would’ve simply translated it literally instead, and then he could’ve followed that by saying, “in other words, ‘god is on our side.’”

    • @gregzade5202
      @gregzade5202 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I understand what you're saying. However, How did the German people interpret "Gott mit uns"? or "God with us." Back in the day? I think you'll find German people back then actually did interpreted literally as "God is on our side" So it's not that cringey. What's really cringey is Dembski and most of his arguments that he presented, waffle coming from a supposedly educated person like Dembski, concerning.

  • @Pillion1
    @Pillion1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    God's a bugger, eh? 😂😂😂

  • @johnhoey7717
    @johnhoey7717 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I simply love when fools make a comment, and then remove themselves from the chat so they don’t have to defend their (usually ignorant) remarks.
    ​​⁠Don’t fault me for saying CH now knows there IS a God and he is in hell now; those are the words from God himself. Take it up with Him when it’s your turn for that life review

    • @omezey
      @omezey หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ew.

  • @gerardo2360
    @gerardo2360 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah, he was so smart, he knew there was no God. Always raging on Christianity, you know it's not the only Religion on the planet. I'd like to get an argument from some of these atheists on the '6 systems of Indian/Hindu Philosophy' (they probably know very little about it).

    • @Hairmetallurgist
      @Hairmetallurgist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hitchens (indeed, many of the "New Atheists like Harris, Dennett and Dawkins) has a great deal to say about Islam and a little less to say about Hinduism. Sam Harris is a fan of spirituality and often speaks well of Jains but not so well of Muslims. Dennett is a bit more up front with his disdain for all supernaturally-based belief systems. Dawkins tends to also speak up about Islam, quite a bit.

  • @davidhawley1132
    @davidhawley1132 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    From the first 15 minutes: Hitches was a great speaker and an intelligent man, but he doesn't understand the biblical framework of creation, fall and and re-creation, or the character of a God who pours himself out for his creatures while granting them freedom to choose. These things are revealed, not induced or deduced. I'm looking forward to hearing the rest.

    • @derhafi
      @derhafi ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Astonishing how well Deists and Theists know the mind of their invisible undetectable unproven ancient mythical God which never hasa demonstrable correaltion with reality.

    • @jaydenwilson9522
      @jaydenwilson9522 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@derhafi amazing how scientists think their field of study disproves god but don't see that it's the language of god.

    • @derhafi
      @derhafi ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jaydenwilson9522 Gods, just like unicorns have no role to play in science. Your inability to grasp the concept of science does not add credibility to your imaginary friend. A demonstrable correaltion between your god and reality would...

    • @jaydenwilson9522
      @jaydenwilson9522 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@derhafi Reductionism might die a slow death as the vatican of old did but the age of scientism will undeniably come to an end as fast as it rose... unfortunate that we were born in a time of pathological science.
      And it's not my inability to grasp science, I'm unable to grasp you and your ilk's dogmatic views of reality. A framework and model can only explain so much after all.
      And the thing about god is that it's all about faith...

    • @woodytheduke
      @woodytheduke 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      biblical framework of creation?Who told you? The talking snake?

  • @mugdiller2124
    @mugdiller2124 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hitchens' description of wars and the evils of humanity eventually being rectified by the "progression" of evolution implies purpose and is contradictory to materialism. Hitchens' gift of rhetoric should not obscure his shallow answers to life's big questions.

  • @nathanhornok
    @nathanhornok 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let me sum up Christopher's opinion; there are all sorts of things in the universe we don't understand. We can decide that God should not have made it this way, so God must not exist. After acknowledging how vast and mysterious the details of nature are, he assumes as true the latest trendy opinions in biology or speculations about prehistoric human history. These are once again taken as reasons to reject belief in God. The bottom line is that Hitchens' doesn't believe in God because he doesn't want to, and he will say as much.

    • @johntuffy5721
      @johntuffy5721 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He doesn't believe in god because there is no evidence that god exists .

  • @ArchivesofCreation
    @ArchivesofCreation 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Way to go Dempsky ! Also Christopher Hitchens is no longer an atheist.

    • @woodytheduke
      @woodytheduke 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      that is true,,,dead people can't take any position.jesus is no longer a theist!

    • @kpl775
      @kpl775 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I legit felt second-hand embarrassment from hearing Dembski. Also, Hitchens died an atheist, he did not convert

    • @januszpiechota6994
      @januszpiechota6994 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Actually he was anti theist ,do your homework before commenting,you could end up as blithering idiot as Clarkson would say……

    • @debbiem.3128
      @debbiem.3128 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Nothing quite like Creationists perpetuating lies...it's what they do best.

    • @timcrowe8696
      @timcrowe8696 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is about as offensive a comment you can’t report

  • @TheDORTOH
    @TheDORTOH 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Problem is people are still acting like children. We need the world to Grow Up and leave organized Religion and Lead by Example

  • @johnhoey7717
    @johnhoey7717 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And NOW Hitchens knows for sure there IS a God….sadly and too late for him though.

    • @GayorgVonTrapp
      @GayorgVonTrapp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And NOW you know nothing.

    • @johnhoey7717
      @johnhoey7717 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GayorgVonTrapp I hold a PhD in Molecular/Cellular Biology. What are your credentials? I sure a job at McDonald’s doesn’t provide you the insight needed to even understand what is being discussed. So, bless your little heart.

    • @GayorgVonTrapp
      @GayorgVonTrapp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@johnhoey7717 Oh. One of the big guns is in the chat. I am honoured. This should be good.
      It’s gone a bit quiet in the Drive-Thru …, I’m just itching to know what part of the molecular biology curriculum deals with YOU knowing what conversations Christopher Hitchens is having NOW with some invisible spaceless being?
      Chicken nuggets?
      Btw .. The last qualification I obtained was in theology. A bit more pertinent to the subject matter than molecular thingywotsit majonkey. I am not impressed or convinced in any way that your qualification has fitted you well for reality.

    • @johnhoey7717
      @johnhoey7717 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GayorgVonTrapp well-said. Now it’s just about time for your next shift; aren’t you on the fryer today 🤓?

    • @GayorgVonTrapp
      @GayorgVonTrapp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnhoey7717 I may be a fryer, but you are the one on the ropes with your bizarre claim.
      I can get more sense out of a tub of Mayonnaise.

  • @adrianreid2055
    @adrianreid2055 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Poor Chritopher , supported War in Iraq , gone and forgotten, except by a few last gasp materialist nit wits

    • @woodytheduke
      @woodytheduke 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      why you watching then dipshit!

    • @charliehands5266
      @charliehands5266 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Certainly not forgotten.

  • @ossiedunstan4419
    @ossiedunstan4419 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sorry hitch but the universe is not increasing its expansion rate that is an illusion of relativity.
    The velocity gained bye matter at the big bang is constant not accelerating.

    • @Paine137
      @Paine137 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Congrats on the absolute mangle of evidence-based science that you misdefine and clearly don’t understand in order to arrive at bereft nonsense. Well done, really.