A few things found around the web:
Richard Dawkins talk at TED
Here's Richard Dawkins on the BBC program "Hardtalk."
Here's video of Christopher Hitchens debating Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in New York in January of this year.
Hitchens vs Hitchens debate (Christopher vs Peter) from earlier this month.
Both men make good points in the Iraq argument, but Christopher Hitchens owns his brother in the God debate. Peter Hitchens twice (once in the Iraq war debate and once in the God debate) relies on the argument that certainty is to be doubted or mistrusted. Ignored, of course, is the fact that the man making such an assertion is quite certain of himself. it seems to me that many Christian apologists -- including intelligent, educated ones, such as Peter Hitchens himsef -- are quite slippery on the notions of certainty and absolutes: clutching to them when it suits them, avoiding them when it does not.
I enjoyed Christopher's observation (you'll see it in Part 5), that "at least you can fucking die and leave North Korea." But you'll have to watch it to get the context. And of course, no atheism round up would be complete with mention of Objectivist Round Up # 38, which went up yesterday. Good stuff there, too.
Posted by Craig Ceely at April 11, 2008 06:39 PM