A.C. Gradient: A standard charge laid against people who don't have a religious outlook is that they don't appreciate how it feels to be religious and to have that way of looking at things. He says religion for somebody who is critical of its premises is in the same sort of position as astrology. The online vote for the nation was 12 agnostics, 35 for it and 877 against the nation which could be because atheists go online but only 85 now know the truth about what's going on. And if you'd like to hear more from our future debates please send us an email or voice note at intelligentsquared@mailonline.com.
Does God exist? In this archive debate from 2009, we invited a panel of expert speakers to discuss whether atheism had replaced religion as the new faith of the secular age. Are atheists as blinkered and dogmatic as they claim religious believers to be? Arguing for the motion were former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries and former Editor of the Daily Telegraph Charles Moore. Arguing against the motion were evolutionary biologist and science author Richard Dawkins and philosopher AC Grayling. The debate was chaired by historian, author and commentator Anthony Seldon.
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