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Originally Posted by Vizio
Read them both. Neither one were very good. Hitchens was not a great philospher. Dawkins should stick with biology. He just is not a good philosophical mind. Seriously....both of them made some pretty horrible arguments, and didn't present logical arguments.
Never read it. Wouldn't be opposed to it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hitchen spoke much better than he wrote, where is with Dawkins it's the opposite. I somewhat agree with you on Hitchens style, but disagree as Dawkins presented his points quite well even though both have a tendency to be somewhat dismissive at times. On that last point, Hitchens is much more erudite than Dawkins.
Hitchen spoke much better than he wrote, where is with Dawkins it's the opposite. I somewhat agree with you on Hitchens style, but disagree as Dawkins presented his points quite well even though both have a tendency to be somewhat dismissive at times. On that last point, Hitchens is much more erudite than Dawkins.
I was sad to Hitchens die. I honestly felt like he was kind of a likable guy--in the "rotten old scoundrel" sort of way.
I read and did a review of Dawkins' book for a class I took. I looked at his arguments, and found that he just didn't present a sound argument, nor did he treat the arguments for Christianity well. To be honest, it was 4-5 years ago and I can't remember a lot of what was in it. It just wasn't memorable. I think the guy would get shredded in a debate with a good apologist, someone of the likes of James White, or even Matt Slick.
I forgot to mention in the my last posting (posting # 13 -- seen above) about the widespread prevalence of E-BOOKS. I myself have acquired just about every print book I own in an e-book version as well ... and for those that are not published as e-books and the publisher or author don't seem to have plans to do so, I scan them into my computer and create an e-book myself, usuallly in PDF format or some other format (only for my own personal use, as I don't believe in committing piracy ... and, if the publisher or author or said book would come out with an e-book version, I would acquire that instead).
The point is: I'm sure that the prevalence of e-books has had a major impact on local booksellers and also on books being sold at non-bookstore retailers (e.g.,, Walmart, Target, K-Mart, CVS, et al).
The OT tells creditors to forgive all debts every seven years.
I wonder if that's where the idea of a negative remark or account dropping off your credit report every seven years?...
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