Quotes About Debate

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Science is theology for an atheist

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Good taste is always bad.

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.