christopher hitchens

Not sure if this has been posted. From Times Literary Supplement http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25349-2649121,00.html

So who do you think is worse? Why?

Christopher Hitchens, in his debate with Al Sharpton, says over 98.9 percent of species that ever existed on Earth are now extinct. I've heard that figure before as an argument against design: If all those species no longer exist, how could life be designed by a perfect creator? But it...

From the Randigram An Atheist Responds by Christopher Hitchens. Well? What can I say. An excellent response and fits my own thoughts disturbingly well. This bit caught my eye: I would like to have some suggestions for: [1] His first challenge, if you can think of any. [2] Examples...

Moved from the politics area: Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton had a debate on TV's Hardball a few days ago. Hitchens started pointing out how bad the Ten Commandments are and how it's absurd to think the place Moses and the Hebrews had just left, Egypt, didn't have its own laws and ethics...

Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton had a debate on TV's Hardball a few days ago. Hitchens started pointing out how bad the Ten Commandments are and how it's absurd to think the place Moses and the Hebrews had just left, Egypt, didn't have its own laws and ethics. Al Sharpton pooh-poohed...

Hitchens at his best. I have always liked him but this is the most coherent I have ever seen him. http://youtube.com/watch?v=VG5lczmV44Y This video is part 1 of 5 and he appears sober throughout all of them.

In today's Toronto Star -- Behind the atheist upsurge http://www.thestar.com/article/228562# by Tom Harpur and Personally I think that the sudden flood of atheist books is a result of it being now possible to make the case without having your kids stoned on the way to school or your house...

Full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118247644823044329.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace From the article:

Christopher Hitchens was on Radio 5 yesterday (link here, interview starts an hour in) and it's a delight to listen to, particularly when a really limp Anglican reverend calls in. Hitchens cuts him asunder, and then mutters under just under his breath "credulous loon", to the veiled...

Peter HItchens comments on his brother Christopher's religious comments. Get this one quick while you can -- stuff on Netscape's home page has been known to vanish somewhat rapidly on occasion.

Hitchens interview - Times 30.05.07 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1855247.ece

In the Mail on Sunday an article written by some idiot; which inferred atheists were a bunch of lawless hooligans solely responsible for killing off taught religion in the schools among other things. Apparently the gist of this man's opinions of atheists and the followers are thugs, and the...

Christopher Hitchens, as a "guest voice," posted the following on Washingtonpost.com, May 23: You can find it here: http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/05/hitchens.html

reading another thread "Ding, Dong...", I was alerted to the fact that there was an interview of Hitchens on Anderson Cooper. http://richarddawkins.net/article,1033,n,n I thought it was actually quite good. Cooper let Hitchens speak his mind without undue interuptions and was very polite. It...

Hitchens is on our excellent NPR local (NYC) talk show today. You can stream from the web site: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/05/08 They should have a podcast by tomorrow too. John

New York Magazine interview of Hitchens: Oh, no. The fundies are right: atheists have no source for their morals and thus cannot ever be moral. Rove's lack of morality is well evidenced in his attack on McCain in the 2000 Republican primaries. Not many South Carolinians knew that McCain had...

I have heard the name Christopher Hitchens bandied about more than once, but I can't (couldn't?) say I'd read anything by him. That has changed... I'll have to look up some more of his writings. He seems interesting. This is what got my attention.

Here are some interesting excerpts from Christopher Hitchens' new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Religion Poisons Everything Was Muhammad Epileptic? Mormonism: A Racket Becomes a Religion He certainly doesn't pull his punches!

The debate at Westminster Hall finished with 1205 to 778 votes in favour of the motion. Podcast here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/audio_video/podcasts/article1583399.ece Comment here: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/james_randerson/2007/03/the_antigod_squad.html...

Discuss "We'd be better off without religion' http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2007/03/wed_be_better_o.html

This is for all who voted not to have Christopher Hitchens back to TAM. And all who voted to have him back. And all who didn't vote. It's the man himself talking about a crazy little thing called free speech. http://tinyurl.com/yutx3p

Heard about it on radio 4 this morning. The last 20 minutes of the today programme had Martin Amis and Christopher hitchens talking about writing, then WIlliam Craig and Lewis Wolpert discussing the existence of god. They're discussing it tonight in London: Alas, I can't make it. If any...

I went to the bookstore to buy Christopher Hitchens' book "Thomas Jefferson: Author of America" (2005), and after locating it and flipping through it I decided not to buy it, leaving disappointed. It's less than 200 pages, no footnotes, no bibliography, and it was poorly bound. All for a $22.00...

There is a small debate in another thread as to whether or not his controversial views should be displayed at TAM6. I won't comment just yet.

At TAM5, Hitchens mentioned the corporate cowardice of Borders (in regards to the Danish cartoons issue) and suggested there are other merchants to do business with. It was essentially a call to boycott Borders. But what if you wind up doing business with merchants who were equally weak-willed...

Missing Homework Glenn, I'm astonished by your evident lack of familiarity with Christopher Hitchens's work. A bi-partisan Senate investigating committee determined that Joe Wilson did indeed lie when he claimed that his wife did not suggest him for the assignment to Niger. That same committee...

Highly intelligent man, wonderful dry piercing wit, many good ideas. (Still misinforms about 9/11*, but apart from that.) But there was no call for him to be so obnoxious on the panel Saturday. He could have more easily -- and more effectively -- made his argument about Islamic terrorism by...

My favorite one-line quip from TAM4 was from Christopher Hitchens on the subject of teaching ID along with evolution. It was something like, "Sure, and while we're at it, let's teach astrology along with astronomy, and [something] along with [something else], and then we can all sink, giggling...

TAM III guest speaker (and guest for TAM IV as well) Christopher Hitchens was on MSNBC's Scarborough Country December 1. The topic was the so-called attack on Christmas, a non-event people like Bill O'Reilly are trying to make into news. While I disagree with a large heap of what Hitchens says...