"I'm confident that this audience will not be swayed by such pussy-foottery And will vote with their heads instead of with their guts vote against this motion," says Festival Chasmall. Richard Dawkins: "It's very easy to pick out people who are fundamentalist What are the arguments that Richard Dawkins was putting which was that you cannot have a fundamentalist on the atheist side Is it not a fundamentalist position to say there is no God? And then a quick response from Festival Chasmal Did you notice that atheist bus campaign that they had on the side it said there's probably no God?" The question is how is that going to transfer during the course of the evening now you've heard the
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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