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Here’s a link to a Huffington Post article entitled: ‘Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?‘
In it Douglas Wilson and Christopher Hitchens provide a taste of the arguments which have been captured on the DVD ‘Collision’.
The product summary for ‘Collision’ goes like this: ‘The documentary COLLISION pits leading atheist, political journalist and author Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything) against fellow author and evangelical theologian Pastor Douglas Wilson on a debate tour arguing the topic “Is Religion Good For The World?”. Lives and worldviews collide as Hitchens and Wilson wittily and passionately argue the timeless question, proving to be perfectly matched intellectual, philosophical, and cinematic rivals. COLLISION is directed by prolific independent filmmaker Darren Doane (Van Morrison: To Be Born Again, The Battle For L.A., Godmoney).
So, these articles are something of a teaser.
Brief grabs.
Wilson: ‘If the atheist is right, then I am not a Christian because I have mistaken beliefs, but am rather a Christian because that is what these chemicals would always do in this arrangement and at this temperature. The problem is that this atheistic assumption does the very same thing to the atheist’s case for atheism.’
Hitchens: ‘Tremendous and beautiful things have been achieved by science and reason, from the Hubble telescope to the sequencing of the DNA of obscure viruses. All of these attainments have tended to remind us, however, that we are an animal species inhabiting a rather remote and tiny suburb of an unimaginably large universe.’

Watching these two out-curmudgeon each other would undoubtably be very entertaining.
Hopefully the debates provide some sort of exchange of ideas rather than polemical statements that ignore the other side and then have the followers of both speakers going home claiming victory.

H/T: Justin Taylor

Here’s a ritzy trailer. You know it’s ritzy because it uses black and white, 24 type cut aways and has dramatic music playing in the background.