Pillars are Just Crutches

Now, I haven’t watched the whole debate (I’ve posted it’s entirety on my blog a few blogs back). I got through the actual debate and one question section and have yet to watch the rest as of yet. But judging by the sections I have watched I think that it is a very close debate. Both Hitchens and Wilson are incredibly intelligent men! However, I don’t think Hitchens’ arguments are as good as he may think they are. For example when pressed why the Universe should care if a race of people were destroyed his answer was along the lines of, “if I was that race I’d care” but the question wasn’t about whether the race cared, it was about the universe. And a problem that is inherent within the atheism debate is the problem of ‘meaning’. Everyone feels it to some extent and yet few can define where it comes from or why we have it. Things like beauty and reason are very difficult concepts to make sense of in the atheistic worldview.