Comments on: Sharpton Gets Mutilated by Hitchens http://danielmiessler.com/blog/sharpton-gets-mutilated-by-hitchens grep understanding Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://danielmiessler.com/blog/sharpton-gets-mutilated-by-hitchens/comment-page-1#comment-79009 Chris Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:27:45 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/sharpton-gets-mutilated-by-hitchens#comment-79009 <p>Hmm... I'm not actually sure I saw that Sharpton got "mutilated" exactly. Although, I find debates of this nature fairly impossible. Since debates rely on logic, generally speaking, a debate on religion can't be won by people who use "faith" instead of logic as their discussion base. There's little point debating someone who doesn't accept the same debate framework and foundation of science, fact and logic.</p> <p>For a better Hitchens video on the same topic try this link:</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs</p> <p>It's a talk Hitchens did 2 weeks ago at Google headquarters.</p> Hmm… I’m not actually sure I saw that Sharpton got “mutilated” exactly. Although, I find debates of this nature fairly impossible. Since debates rely on logic, generally speaking, a debate on religion can’t be won by people who use “faith” instead of logic as their discussion base. There’s little point debating someone who doesn’t accept the same debate framework and foundation of science, fact and logic.

For a better Hitchens video on the same topic try this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs

It’s a talk Hitchens did 2 weeks ago at Google headquarters.

]]> By: Chris http://danielmiessler.com/blog/sharpton-gets-mutilated-by-hitchens/comment-page-1#comment-249165 Chris Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:27:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/sharpton-gets-mutilated-by-hitchens#comment-249165 <p>Hmm... I'm not actually sure I saw that Sharpton got "mutilated" exactly. Although, I find debates of this nature fairly impossible. Since debates rely on logic, generally speaking, a debate on religion can't be won by people who use "faith" instead of logic as their discussion base. There's little point debating someone who doesn't accept the same debate framework and foundation of science, fact and logic.</p> <p>For a better Hitchens video on the same topic try this link:</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs</p> <p>It's a talk Hitchens did 2 weeks ago at Google headquarters.</p> Hmm… I’m not actually sure I saw that Sharpton got “mutilated” exactly. Although, I find debates of this nature fairly impossible. Since debates rely on logic, generally speaking, a debate on religion can’t be won by people who use “faith” instead of logic as their discussion base. There’s little point debating someone who doesn’t accept the same debate framework and foundation of science, fact and logic.

For a better Hitchens video on the same topic try this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs

It’s a talk Hitchens did 2 weeks ago at Google headquarters.

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