Atheist Gets Asked HUGE Questions (Can't Answer!) | DEBATE HIGHLIGHT

In this video, Frank Turek asks Christopher Hitchens several huge and important questions related to the existence of the universe, the existence of morality & more. Given how hugely influential Hitchens' still is, I thought it would be important to try and establish the difference between rhetorical eloquence and legitimate explanation. I hope you enjoy!

[joshua]

Watched this debate way back when. Definitely a bit frustrating during the cross examinations (like in the video). When you examine the responses Hitchens gave in response to Turek closely, you’ll find there is either no argument or an inadequate one.

[holzkiewuf]

Turek keeps asking how the car got here and Hitchens keeps responding that he’s not a mechanic.

[BerishaFatian]

I've never heard Hitchens answer a question. And he never offered any argument for atheism, he only bitched about religion.

[Levi_Void]

How do people see this guy as a great debtor ? All he does is throw pot shots and dodge questions

[john-xpem]

"IF there is no MORAL GIVER then WHO will set the STANDARDS for MORALITY ?"

[nance]

Debaters always resort to insults/arrogance when they know they have lost the argument.

[FrontYardGardener]

If he doesn't know how the universe was created then logically he doesn't know how it was not created.

[SmithSmithson]

Regardless of what Hitchens believes, I think he could do without the pomp and arrogance.

[_aPaladin]

Hitchens just exposed his own flaw in logic @7:07 I don't think people listen enough...

[shack_]

This is not a debate, this is hitchons wanting to hear himself talk

[Christendom]

People tend to forget that Hitchens claimed to be not an atheist but an Anti-Theist. Hitchens' main goal in his later life was to never accept religion in any form and purely to dismantle and help try to destroy it. In the end he failed, and not only did he fail but he helped usher in the demise of the "new atheism" movement and the beginning of a resurgence in faith.

[cab]

I know there’s infinitely more wind than there is sail

[PaleoCon]

Hitchens often confused insult for a valid argument. I'm not sure it was "confused" because I think his insults were intentional because he also seems to have believed volume substituted for facts.

[RushFX]

The wind and sail analogy works both ways. One can keep increasing the wind, but one cannot thusly keep increasing the number of sails. Eventually, the efficacy of each sail goes down as they overlap, and there will no longer be room to add more, whereas the wind may still get harsher. Such is the case with the origin of the universe, we may find material explanations all the way to the theoretical big bang, but still there has to be something beyond to set it all into motion in the first place, and thus the materialist ship has reached its maximum capacity of sails.

[paralicular]

Jesus is the living water, whoever drinks from it will never be thirsty. This guy on the other hand presents an empty cup telling you its full.

[black-cross]

Some people just want to win the debate and be seen as right. Not actually get to the truth. But the problem is if you can fool your opponent and the audience, you're ultimately fooling and dooming yourself

[sealstorm]

This is fast becoming my new favourite YouTube channel, please keep the videos coming and happy Lent. 🙏

[opietwoep]

Love your channel. I left organized religion (the Watchtower) but i never left my belief in a creator.

[kieranmilton]

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence” - C Hitchens

[joshuakohlmann]

Hitchens didn't "fail to answer the question". He demonstrated - perfectly soundly - why the question is flawed. In fact "no more than you do" was the best answer he could have given. The inability of the naturalist side to explain the origin of the universe doesn't give the theist side the green light to plug in the gap with an arbitrary creator; and I say "arbitrary" because a Muslim could just as easily use this as an argument to "prove" Allah, or an ancient Egyptian to "prove" Atum. Unfortunately, Turek is a one-trick pony who doesnt like it when people deviate from his script - hence his resort to frequent interruptions and aggression.