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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
You're assuming they'd have the same debate as Nye had with Ham, which isn't necessarily the case.
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I didn't assume, I asked the question of what would they debate
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
They could debate the existence of God, as Collins is a former atheist turned theist. That's the debate I was thinking they should have that would be exceedingly interesting.
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Maybe, though debating the existence of "a" God would be like debating about "stuff", it's so poorly defined as to be useless. They'd have to agree on a more specific definition of God.
I don't know if it would be an interesting debate, I've read parts of Collins' book and I would say it's about as good as Dawkins' book is going the other direction. Both are interesting reads but I don't think either are particularly strong in making convincing arguments that the other side would find compelling. I didn't find anything in Collins' book that wasn't a form of long hashed over poor arguments, and I don't know if you've read The God Delusion but if you have I assume it didn't do much to change your mind about anything.
Though maybe Nye would make such a debate interesting, no idea about his chops in other areas.