Lennox had championed their cause and they were grateful for it. And if you are a reductionist, as you must be as a materialist, reducing beliefs to the physics and chemistry of neurological structures, then it raises a very big question ladies and gentlemen.

RD: My value judgement itself could come from my evolutionary past. The first review for Larry’s latest book is out and it comes to us from the Hollywood Digest. You can’t provide a rationale for why those numbers are there, and physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn’t exist. Like Zechariah in Luke 1, Lennox had been struck dumb during the night. You’re enjoying sex using the Darwinian, the pleasure with built into your brains by Darwinism because normally sex leads to reproduction. We were scouting venues for the first – and so far as we knew at the time, the only – debate between Dawkins and Lennox. Atheism tells you, at least Richard tells us in his book, that: “Since human life has been cobbled together by (unguided) evolution, it unlikely that our view of the world is accurate”.[3]. The point was not without merit.
What science has now achieved is an emancipation from that impulse to attribute these things to a creator and it’s a major emancipation because humans have an almost overwhelming desire think that they’ve explained something by attributing it to a maker. I must stress again I’m not saying that the majority of religious people do terrible acts.

Understanding What is Happening in America Reservations. What we are seeking to do this evening is to narrow the discussion just a bit and hence that the name of this debate the “God Delusion Debate”. So what I would want to say is this: of course we can be good without God in the sense of our personal behaviour, but I’m not sure whether we can find foundations for the concept of being good without God. “This was not the first time Taunton has traveled worldwide, so he was no novice to the Read more…, This year it is my privilege to be a featured speaker at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit. So Professor Dawkins, you will have both the first and the last word, I suppose in the interest of Christian charity. It may explain certain things about what happens when you’ve got life, but evolution assumes the existence of a mutating replicator. Teaching them that that faith is a virtue. I don’t on the whole, but the point I want to make is that there does seem to be a kind of universal human acceptance that certain things are right and other things are not. So I’m interested that you were prepared as I understand it to agree that a TOE was a good thing in physics, as perhaps you’d like a TOE provided there is no God attached to it. Each of those exchanges should be about five minutes per side, and then what is not reflected in your program is that each of our debaters will finish the program with final statements, with concluding remarks. I do not agree with the first one, but I very much agree with the second one. And I owe them an immense debt for setting me free to read everything from Marx and Russell to C.S. Yes, the audience loved it and, predictably, the media didn’t.3 But so badly did the debate go for the opposition that one of them pleaded with me, for mercy’s sake, not to distribute video of the event online or in a DVD. A group of us listened to it on the radio here in Beijing!”.