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John Lennox at the Oxford Union – inspirational, when he sets himself free
As I announced here that I would, I am shining an analytical spotlight on The Oxford Union debate, This house believes in God. It took place in 2012, around the end of October or beginning of November...
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Dan Barker wears eye-catching braces at the Oxford Union God Debate.
When you have an argument that is both unverifiable and unfalsifiable, existing only as a matter of faith, and when that argument has been joined countless times over the ages by a large number of very...
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Dr Joanna Collicutt needs both my books.
Probably the most sensible thing that anyone has said, with respect to the Oxford Union God debate, came from the daughter of the speaker we shall be examining here. I’ll come to that in a few seconds....
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Peter Hitchens lays into his opponents
The third speaker in favour of the motion This House Believes in God in the debate at the Oxford Union, was Peter Hitchens. He hates this argument – he told us so. “I hate this argument!” That’s his...
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Peter Millican concludes the God debate.
This is the sixth and final speaker at the Oxford Union God Debate. We have been working our way through the speeches of those offering arguments for and against the motion This House Believes in God....
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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev should have spoken at the God debate
In the five months since Rhetauracle was born the sheer internationality of the Internet has been brought dramatically home to me. Yes, of course I knew that it was all over the world: what I hadn’t...
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Eben Alexander met God
In November 2013 Westminster Town Hall Forum in Minneapolis presented a talk by Eben Alexander. He called it The Nature of Consciousness. Five years earlier almost to the day Alexander, an eminent...
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Daniel Dennett should play to his strength
At the Global Atheist Convention, in Melbourne Australia, in April 2012, Daniel Dennett was one of the speakers. Having seen Dennett interviewed, and thereby having felt him to be not one of those...
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Sam Harris does some shredding
In 2011 the University of Notre Dame in Indiana conducted a ‘God Debate’ between Dr William Lane Craig and Dr Sam Harris. If you’ve a mind to, you can watch the whole thing here. I should probably...
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