{"id":8089,"date":"2012-03-28T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2012-03-28T08:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:56:55","slug":"the-great-debate-science-vs-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/the-great-debate-science-vs-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Debate: Science vs. Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took a little work, but the spark of human willpower was ultimately able to overcome the stubborn resistance of technology, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ulykALV2FQ8\">video<\/a> from our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2012\/03\/25\/sciencereligion-debate-live-streaming-today\/\">science\/religion debate at Caltech<\/a> on Sunday is finally up. Michael Shermer and I took on Dinesh D&#8217;Souza and Ian Hutchinson.  Short version: we won, but judge for yourself if you want to sit through all two hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"The Great Debate: &amp;quot;Has Science Refuted Religion?&amp;quot;\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ulykALV2FQ8\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ulykALV2FQ8\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ulykALV2FQ8\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2H5M17S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-03-28T03:17:50Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_ulykALV2FQ8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ulykALV2FQ8\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">The Great Debate: &quot;Has Science Refuted Religion?&quot;<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ulykALV2FQ8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ulykALV2FQ8\/0.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Debate: &amp;quot;Has Science Refuted Religion?&amp;quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/skeptic CALTECH COSMOLOGIST AND PHYSICIST Sean Carroll teams up with Skeptic magazine publisher and science historian Michael Shermer in this epic debate with noted conservative author and King&#039;s College President Dinesh D&#039;Souza and MIT physicist Ian Hutchinson as they go head-to-head over one of the most controversial issues of our age. As science pushes deeper into territory once the province of religion, with questions such as Why there is something rather than nothing?, Where did the universe come from?, How did life arise?, What was the origin of morality?, and others, inevitable conflicts arise over the best approach to answer them. Don&#039;t miss this great debate and come with your questions for the audience participation portion of the day!\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>YouTube comments &#8212; always an enlightening read &#8212; seem to be mostly about Dawkins and Hitchens, although I don&#8217;t remember either of them being there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a little work, but the spark of human willpower was ultimately able to overcome the stubborn resistance of technology, and the video from our science\/religion debate at Caltech on Sunday is finally up. 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