All Events · RDF Events · Other Events · TGD Book Tour · Media Events · US · UK

Thursday, April 03, 2008 | print version

Hitchens v Hitchens

at Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies

Hitchens vs. Hitchens: On God, War, Politics, and Culture

Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens are set for their first public debate, this Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They plan to debate on numerous topics, from religion to Iraq.

There will be a live Webcast of Hitchens vs Hitchens available at:

http://www.allpresidents.org and http://www.cfimichigan.org on April 3, 2008, 7:30pm

This event is sponsored by Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University with additional support from CFI Michigan.

Watch Promo video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3uvEHQZMPw

Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008

Time: 07:00 PM

Location:
Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies

Grand Rapids, MI USA

Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2008 | Permalink

Upcoming Events:

Aug 11th - Edinburgh International Book Festival

Oct 20th - Oxford Town Hall

Oct 21st - Oxford Museum of Natural History

For more events see here

About this site

Mailing List Signup: Enter your email

Go to The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Can You Volunteer?

Richard Dawkins Articles | Comments | Tour Journal

Atheist Resources | Local Groups

Database of Lecturers

Debate Points | Latest Responses

MySpace | FaceBook

'Imagine No Religion' Flyers

Links:

More Links

Quotes of Note:

"Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye..."

Richard Dawkins

"Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading."

Richard Dawkins

"The fight both for and against slavery in the United States was waged first along scriptural lines. . . . There was also the theory of the descent from Ham which attained great vogue and still does in certain quarters. . . . With the superseding of religion by science the battle of inequality shifted from a scriptural wording to a scientific one. Now it was no longer what "God had said" but what color, hair, and skull showed. . . . In other words, the pro-slavery faction and the antislavery one had entered the stage in new costumes. Underneath were the same bodies."

Joel Augustus Rogers

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."

Christopher Hitchens

"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."

Mark Twain

More Quotes