Posted by
Doctor Bart on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:17:50 PM
After reading the transcript of Christopher Hitchen's "debate" with Dr. Mark Roberts, I walked away at the amazing simplicity of Hitchen's "arguments". They can be summed up very easily. We "know" there is no God because:
1- Religious people do bad things
2- atheists can do good things too
3- The God of the Bible doesn't meet Hitchen's standard for morality
4- The Gospels don't say what he thinks they should if they were true
Wow. I am going to have to rethink my faith because my God isn't as smart as Christopher Hitchens. Sorry, that just doesn't carry much weight.
I wish more time had been spent on the difficult questions science cannot answer. There is no way to explain the complexity of life through random chance. Even a simple E. Coli bacteria has 4,000,000 DNA base pairs. That's a long sequence to nail down by chance. Complex "developments" such as a seeing eye, or avian flight would require literally hundreds if not thousands of harmonious synchronized mutations, all providing reproductive advantage in autosomal dominant transmission for them to be passed on. This too is a statistical impossibility. It just couldn't happen.
But Hitchens was not troubled in the least by the holes in his arguments, or in even engaging in an honest dialogue. He is simply an arrogant fool who despises religious people and thrives on demeaning faith.