Hitchens addresses Intelligent Design (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, October 18, 2012, 18:07 (4396 days ago) @ David Turell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R0wfGaEMoA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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> > He never had much to say on that, but he takes a mighty swing here...
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> Thank you for the correct time. Hitchens makes the same points I do. The burning bush is religion and has nothing to do with a proof of a greater power. My point is to prove a universal intelligence exists without reference to religion. No religion knows more about God than I do, because we all have the same human limits and God is concealed. Use science, purely excluded from religious assertions, and the appearance of intelligence and information is found everywhere.-
Hitchens points at this: There is no epistemology inherent in the position. -I've often tried to find clumsy ways to ask questions about it. I've read your book, but the question still is to be asked, how you *know* intelligence when you see it? You always wave it away with that "I know pornography when I see it" but its precisely that handwaving that is irritating. -We should spend some time trying to attack this notion of intelligence directly.

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