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Hitchens vs Jay Richards at Stanford

Shelby Martin, of the Stanford Daily reports on the debate, moderated by Ben Stein.

"There are no atheists in foxholes, but there are plenty in universities," said host Ben Stein,

"I can't imagine it'll take me 14 minutes to demolish intelligent design, as I refuse to call it," quipped Hitchens.

He cited the existence of evil as evidence against a benevolent designer.

"Whose design?" asked Hitchens, to applause from many audience members, including a dozen wearing "Atheists of Silicon Valley" T-shirts. "What kind of design? What kind of caprice, what kind of incompetence, what kind of cruelty?"

Richards congratulated Hitchens on his rhetoric, but dismissed the atheist's perspective.

"A sneer is not an argument," said Richards.

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