Finally watched the Dsouza/Hitchens debate...

Very interesting...many of Hitchens' arguments against Christianity were based on a penal substitutionary model of Salvation (i.e. Christ suffered indignity on the Cross in order to satisfy God's honor). Dsouza got him though in saying that Christianity is not about the suffering of Christ as much as the Resurrection. Meanwhile somewhere someone is coming up with good Orthodox rebuttals to atheist presumptions.

Speaking of which...
Is there something within the scientific method that predicts the future? Is there something scientific about self righteous assertion? Simply saying "any self-respecting individual would see...." does not prove anything when said within the collected inheritance of overwhelming religious civilization. Moreover, nothing within science says that science will solve everything. Science can connect the dots but only a leap of secular faith can allow the assertion that all the dots in the universe will be connected someday. More thoughts forthcoming...

-Steve K