Some interesting viewing here
richarddawkins.net/article,...e-1-RDFRS
"On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen.
All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion - some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public's reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, criticisms and common misrepresentations. They discuss the tough questions about religion that face the world today, and propose new strategies for going forward. "
richarddawkins.net/article,...e-1-RDFRS
"On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen.
All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion - some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public's reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, criticisms and common misrepresentations. They discuss the tough questions about religion that face the world today, and propose new strategies for going forward. "
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Re: The Four Horsemen
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 2:57 PMAh, yes, I have this on my iPod....
I would've liked to have heard more Dennett and less Hitchens... I have Dennett's "Breaking the Spell" but haven't had time to read it yet. -
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Re: The Four Horsemen
Fri, May 9, 2008 - 7:28 AMI don't think it's possible to hear less hitchens.
But I thought the best parts is when he shows his hand as to just wanting to argue. The other 3 have a similar mindset in terms of religion's place in the world and optimistically looking forward to a time when they don't have to have this constant debate, and Hitchens disagrees because he likes fighting about it. Dawkins made a good point in that there are lots of other things to argue about and you could kind of hear the underlying exasperation of an evolutionary biologist who has been "forced" to concentrate on a topic that really isn't his main interest and would like to get back to what he really loves, science. But Hitchens just loves to talk, and debate, and argue and get people's ire up, so he'd be happy with this continuing indefinitely.
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