Mike Seaver vs. Atheists
If you failed to catch Wednesday night’s episode of Nightline, which pitted actor Kirk Cameron of Growing Pains fame and evangelical minister Ray Comfort against Brian Sapient (and someone known as “Kelly”) of the Rational Response Squad on the topic, “Does God Exist?” then you’re in luck: the segment appears online at ABC News.
What’s your opinion? Who presented the best arguments? Who was just downright awful? Let us know!
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Dang, they definitely laid the smackdown on the christians, it was painfully obvious that they only have memorized and rehearsed scripts — using careful wording to conceal howling flaws in their arguments — and they are helpless when asked to go off script, to actually engage in a debate.
My only complaint with the Rational Response Squad is their loud sighing and haughty impatience as the debate goes on…. That sort of condescension affirms the image of the athiest (and humanist) as being effete and arrogant.
There’s no reason why the Rational Responders can’t show the same civility as the Growing Pains dude. That, actually, would be the rational thing to do.