Peter Singer vs D'Souza

Australian Biologist and atheist Peter Singer debated D'Souza at a Christian university, and Singer surprinsingly did better than Hitchens and Dennett, in my humble opinion, of course.

You can see the debate here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phgb67NAaHA

Once again D'Souza repeats the same tired arguments: atheists are bad because Stalin and Hitler were bad. Once again he claims compassion is a Christian invention, and once again he manipulates logic and fact as if he can change reality just by words alone.

Things I noticed from this debate:

(1) Singer is better at debating than Dennett and maybe Hitchens

(2) When Singer said Bill Gates donates millions to charity and Gates is not religious, D'Souza defended himself by saying Gates' actions are influenced by a Christian society, even though he is not religious. Weird. Hitler's hatred of Jews, gays, and gypsies was influenced by atheism, even though we are supposed to have no morals that can cause such influence.

(3) D'Souza repeats the anthropic principle again. Singer defends it by saying, "Well, we could be in one of multiple universes." D'Souza replies that multiple universes are not proven, and may not exist. He uses atheist logic to attack the idea of multiple universes. D'Souza even mentioned the "God of the gaps" thing and said that atheism has something similar: "Science will find the answer later on."

And Singer kept saying that when it comes to the beginning of things, neither atheists nor theists have an advantage. Actually, atheism has a small advantage; we claim everything started with simplicity. Theism claims everything started because of a complex being that in order to exist would need more engineering, more evolution than everything else in this planet. Singer is wrong.

When it comes to Hitler, D'Souza once again said Hitler was an atheist. And once again, he was reminded that he wasn't. D'Souza then claimed Himmler and Gobbels were atheists (actually he said Gobbers). Himmler led the SS, and that organization did not permit atheists to become members. And Gobbels was despised by the Vatican for marrying a protestant woman who had been married before. D'Souza then claims Hitler despised Christianity as we know it and wanted to prove Jesus had been an Aryan. RIGHT. But that does not mean he was an atheist.

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