I applaud Hitchens in the simple fact that he started off, and kept up for quite a while, the ideal of the debate; namely the argument for and against the existence of God.

Well, the rabbi seemed most eager to point out the errors in Hitchens book, but in the midst of all his insane babble, there were some attempts at discrediting his misunderstood form of evolution, and if you can point out the improbability of a horse creating itself, God wins by default, of course. What the rabbi doesnt get when he is declaring that Hitchens god is time, is that its not time, but algorithmic math that does the job. He has not understood the power of Darwins idea at all, which is why Darwin gets the credit for it in the first place. Natural selection and evolution was concepts that had been touched on long before Darwin, but what Darwin did was to understand the amazing power in the resulting algorithm.

Time, put simply, isnt even that big an issue. It is true that the universe is old, Boteach seems to imply the earth is 16 billion years old, which is wrong, the universe itself is 13,7 billion, earth around 4,6. Life itself is around 3.5 billion years old, and that is more than enough time. Infact, Natural selection is so powerful that there could have been even more change in those vast stretches of time.

>> ^Kreegath:
Sighed heavily when the rabbi brought up the fact that we haven't found life on other planets.
Seriously, the fact that he's so poor at arguing and has so poor arguments makes this hard to watch in one sitting.



So true. It's really disheartening...

Shmuley Boteach = my favorite Jewish name ever

Oh, only 41 minutes late...

Good debate. Hitchens wipes the floor with Boteach.