Saturday, January 3, 2009

Children of Children (By Oscar Brown Jr)

A beautiful poem written by Oscar Brown Jr.:

The children of children by the time their half grown, they have habits like rabbits and young of their own.
The children of children from their mama's lap hop to the ground to be taken in traps.
The children of children are trapped in their dark skins to stay in and play in a game that no one wins.
The children of children while so young and sweet are all damn and programmed for future defeat.
The children of children are trapped by adults failed and jailed to hide the results.
The children of children enable to cope with systems that twists them and rubbed them of hope.
The children of children are sinned and ashamed. Preparing and bearing; who do you blame?
The children of children cry out everyday. They beg you for rescue.... and what do you say?

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Hitchen's debate with Prager and D'Souza about Existence of God

Key points that are quite interesting about this debate:

The first key point-

Challenges put forward by Hitchens. Propose a right action committed or a morally right statement made by a believer that could not have been made or performed or uttered by a non-believer.

The second key point-

To believe, you have to believe the following: The origin of human beings have started roughly 100 thousand years ago. Francis Collins argues that the origin of our species is closer to roughly 250 thousand years ago. To believe, ladies and gentlemen, you have to say to yourselves, for 95 years God stood still and watched our species with folded arms and roughly five thousand years ago decided to intervene. D'Souza counters this argument with a rather week statement. He states while true, human development did not start until the birth of religion. What he means by human development encompasses everything from technology, and a change from a death centric world to a life centric world.

conclusion-

The debate takes few turns. Arguments change direction moving from historical refutes to the origin of cosmos and lasting effects of the big bang. Arguably, it could be said that the believers put a huge amount of effort trying to convince the audience of a little voice in the back of their mind telling them right from wrong, can not be explained by Darwinian terms. Hitchens insists no explanation is not answer for existence of God neither. Few interesting points that came up.
Hitchens counteracts the famous argument made of the natural beauty of the world and its complexity to a creator by drawing a very bleak picture of universe of collapsing stars, inhabitable planets, incredible amount of instinct species and so forth. He then famously says, " Some creator is it ladies and gentlemen?".

Quite interesting debate...