Here’s a link to the audio of the 2009 debate between Dinesh D’Souza and Dr. Peter Singer. The topic was, “Can there be morality without God?”  This debate may preview for us what we are in store for in NYC for the Socrates In The City event on September 13th. We would, of course, hope to hear some new material from both Dr. Singer and Dinesh.

http://www.brianauten.com/Apologetics/dsouza-singer-debate.mp3

Thanks to Apologetics315 for link.

http://apologetics315.blogspot.com/

See the Press Release here:

http://www.tkc.edu/abouttkc/president_pressrelease.html

This review comes from the Washington Times and is favorable to Meyer’s conclusions:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/18/wise-defense-of-intelligent-design/?page=1

The Fixed-Point Foundation will sponsor this debate on September 7th, 2010 in Birmingham, Alabama. The debaters are Christopher Hitchens and David Berlinski.

Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Dr. David Berlinski, author of The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.  The question being debated: What are the implications of a purely secular society?  It promises to be a formidable clash of titans.  In addition to being highly entertaining and witty, these two men have a serious message they want to communicate. You will not want to miss it.

Though Mr. Hitchens has reduced his schedule of public events due to illness, this debate is one of the select few that he continues to honor.

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Christopher Hitchens, an atheist and polemicist, is best known for his controversial book,God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and, most recently, for his memoir, Hitch 22, which has been on The New York Times Best Seller List since its release last month.  Hitchens has been a columnist for The Atlantic, Slate, and Vanity Fair, and has debated his views around the English-speaking world.  Hitchens is one of the so-called “New Atheists”, along with other notables like Richard Dawkins.

David Berlinski describes himself as “a secular Jew and an agnostic.”  He has written a number of books on mathematics, but he is best known for his appearance in the Ben Stein film “Expelled” as well as for his irreverent assault upon the New Atheists in his book, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.  Mr. Berlinski, whose immediate family was saved during the Holocaust by the “American Schindler” Varian Fry, resides in Paris.  He possesses a Ph.D. from Princeton University and formerly taught philosophy and mathematics at Stanford University and the University of Paris.

For details of the debate, go to:

http://fixed-point.org/index.php/debates/319-howatheismpoisonseverything

Registration is now open for this historic debate. It will be held at The New York Society for Ethical Culture on September 13th, 7:00PM. The Society is located at 2 Central Park West and 64th Street.

To attend, register at:

Socrates In The City Website

The debate topic: Is God the Source of Morality?

For an orientation to Dr. Singer’s ethical positions, see the Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer

And for Dinesh D’Souza, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D’Souza

This debate will have significant ramifications because if Dr. Singer’s point of view prevails in our culture, we might well be facing not only a Brave New World, but a Grave New World.

Google Maps Link for locating The New York Society for Ethical Culture:

Map of the New York Society for Ethical Culture