Thunderf00t / Dawkins discussion

Jason Thibeault

I’m having a bit of trouble embedding this (due to Youtube’s nasty &fmt=18 bug that’s been cropping up lately), so I’m going to have to link to this instead. Click here to see the discussion. I’ll try to embed it if it’s at all possible, but the clicky link works just as well.

Sadly, Thunderf00t was a one-man army in setting up this discussion and had precious little audio/video kit on hand to use, and he is obviously as yet unpracticed in discussion without a script, but the ideas discussed are fascinating and, in my opinion, ring very true. It certainly comes off as far more entertaining than Ray Comfort trying to brow-beat him with the “fine-tuning hypothesis” and a mangled version of Pascal’s Wager, but that’s probably because Dawkins respects Thunderf00t (which, given that he’s little better than a Youtube celebrity at the moment, is great). I can’t imagine doing much better were I dropped into a discussion with Dawkins.

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Thunderf00t / Dawkins discussion

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Hi! I'm a tech guy, skeptic, feminist, gamer and atheist, and love OSS and science of all stripes. I enjoy a good bit of whargarbl now and again, and will occasionally even seek it out. I am also apparently responsible for the death of common sense on the internet. My bad.

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