Oh, man. Christopher Hitchens is going to debate William Dembski at a Christian high school in Plano, Texas.
Dembski is dumber than I ever imagined to have agreed to this. It's like volunteering to take a high dive into a woodchipper.
It's going to be webcast beginning at 8:40am tomorrow, Thursday, 18 November. When I won't be able to see it.
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