Category Archives: Debate

Online debates which you can view at leisure.

Significantly More Odious Turds

While per­us­ing back issues of The Bugle, the world’s only audio news­pa­per for a visual world and seem­ingly imper­vi­ous to the pas­sage of time in terms of jokes on his­tor­ical fig­ures and wangs, I came across an epis­ode which spe­cific­ally high­lighted the Brit­ish National Party’s Nick Griffin’s appear­ance on BBC Ques­tion Time. The ana­lysis of the

Why Do They Believe It?

Alan Dav­ies has a moment of glory where he out­shines Stephen Fry with that nag­ging ques­tion all athe­ists prob­ably feel at one time or another.

Hitchens Vs Dembski

I have a dis­tinct impres­sion Demb­ski for­got the title of the debate, which is “Does A Good God Exist?” He lost on the tech­nic­al­ity of being dumb. Chris­topher Hitchens’ tal­ents were wasted, as dis­played by his over­whelm­ingly elo­quent open­ing. Des­pite his strange shoutout for Fran­cis Collins. When faced with Demb­ski not answer­ing the debate ques­tion. Demb­ski drones

Agnostics へ

There is one per­sist­ent con­trib­utor to the com­ments in this blog  who really wants to assert that Pharyn­gula is full of knee-jerk reac­tion­ary com­ments, and that agnostics are not cow­ards. I have been mon­it­or­ing this thread, and real­ise it is quite bal­anced with a few agnostics or people arguing for the ration­al­ity of the agnostic

Intelligence Squared: Is Atheism the New Fundamentalism?

I have been look­ing for­ward to this debate for over a month since I watched my first Intel­li­gence Squared debate between Chris­toper Hitchens and Stephen Fry versus John Onai­yekan and Ann Wid­de­combe over the ques­tion: “Is the Cath­olic church a force for good in the world?” Here’s the video link if you are inter­ested. But if