Richard Swinburne | Science Debate | Proposition (5/6)

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The Motion: This House Believes That Science Alone Can Never Answer Our Biggest Questions.

Professor Richard Swinburne closes the case for the Proposition, as the fifth speaker of six in the debate.

The motion carried.

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[nietzschean]

I really expected him to smack that glass of water onto the floor.

[aslapiana]

They need to remove the person / people that keep coughing.

[SuperSalami]

Well science and morality are different concepts, science doesn't set out to find whats morally right or wrong whereas ethics and philosophy does so obviously they're going to be better at that. Its like saying philosophy and ethics is bad because they never solve tangible problems with factual evidence.

[EuropeanQoheleth]

People forget about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria which tore through the Japanese troops there. It was after that, which came after the nuclear bombs, that Japan surrendered.

[xxMrBaldyxx]

All he did was ramble on about natural laws and morality. He never really ends up making any meaningful points.