Atheist Debate

This debate took place this month at Oxford, and can be downloaded here.   
What do you think?

Russell’s Consistency?

“Historically it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about him, so that I am not concerned with the historical question, which is a very difficult one.” -Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not A Christian.

“So little is known of him [Leucippus] that Epicurus (a [...]

Pragmaticisms Damning Effects

“For despite the fact that nobody would deny its importance to an adequate understanding of the human condition, technology has never joined epistemology, esthetics, law, science, and politics as a fully respectable topic for philosophical inquiry. Engineers have shown little interest in filling this void. Except for airy pronouncements in yearly presidential addresses at various [...]