Atheist Debates - Is Anything really possible?
Anything is possible. That's what we frequently hear, but is it actually true? It seems that some theists attempt to leverage this platitude as a foundation to shift the burden of proof and build "not impossible" into "possible" and extend it further to "true and worth betting my life on"...with little more than wishes and fallacies to support this chain.
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I really enjoy listening to Matt Dillahunty speak. He really knows how to counter the claims of Christianity. I wish that he would incorporate more science like Dawkins and Harris often do. He'll say "I don't know" - which is perfectly fine and sometimes the best course of action, but there are sometimes answers or lines of scientific inquiry that he misses out on. And he tends to give backwards idiots too much say and then will explode on them. Entertaining, but not really highbrow discussion. That being said, I get disappointed when he's not a host of the week's Atheist Experience show.
I can't really fault him on that. His background is in IT, not scientific research like Dawkins. Likewise Harris was, I believe, trained in neuroscience. Dillahunty is very scrupulous about not claiming knowledge he doesn't actually have. Instead he's focused on addressing the beliefs people claim and examining them.
I believe that's a deliberate strategy on his part.