Hitchens v. Craig

Only a few moment ago high quality footage was uploaded of the recent debate between our mentor and guide, Christopher Hitchens, and the media-friendly Christian apologist, William Lane Craig. The Hitchens world has gone quiet recently, with little television coverage since his appearance on The Hour, due very possibly to the penning of his memoir, but this encounter, staged at the Biola University in Southern California (a constitutionally Christian institution) was, indeed, extraordinary. Hitchens' arguments have evolved somewhat since the rigour of his book tours and I see him trying to shake things up a little bit and go for the jugular, so to speak, rather than fall back on the lay arguments that have a tendency to lead to regressions when posed to an audience predisposed towards 'faith'. I shan't expand on his arguments here, as I'll leave them for you to fully indulge in, and neither shall I try and tear down Craig's arguments as I don't have a spare 24 hours. Craig has quite a methodical way of speaking that I imagine will appeal to a student audience. That's not to say his points were methodical, but rather, he talks like an essay and adopts this strange excitable mode of oration that I suspect results from years of watching priests and pastors do exactly the same. He was, at times, laughable, and at others, infuriating. His mercilessly repeated claim that atheism has not been proved to be true, for example, was painstaking in the extreme. Atheism cannot be true; it is instead the very claim that something is not true. Likewise, his fervency in his assertion that Christ rose from the dead, which he foolishly tied inextricably to his overlying argument that God, therefore, exists, presented a fundamentalism that lost him the debate. Also, is it just me, or does he appear to claim that atheists consider rape acceptable? I mean, please.

UPDATE: The YouTube clips have been removed due to a request from Biola University. Don't let them get away with it - download the whole video free at the Pirate Bay here.