Some Comments from YouTube Watchers of the Tour-Farina Debate

[Faizal_Ali]

@Eddie

In any case, I concede that Tour is not always good at concealing exasperation.

I think that misses point: Expressing exasperation by screaming insults and waving his arms about is all he has. He has no arguments to make against the science itself, because he has made inadequate effort to understand the science. So why would he try conceal his exasperation?

@Eddie

On the other hand, Dave, who is seemingly in a permanent state of adolescence, is the sort of person who quickly generates large amounts of exasperation. So the two of them were not a good pairing for a serious intellectual debate. But Tour should have known, based on Dave’s video series, that a live debate was likely to turn out no more constructive. He should have nixed the idea of a live debate (with Dave, I mean, not necessarily with others) from the start.

Again, I think that misconstrues the likely reason this debate was organized, with Tour’s complicity. A serious discussion of the scientific status of various hypotheses regarding abiogenesis was obviously not in the cards, since no one currently conducting research in that area was on the stage.

The goal was to convince right wing Christian ideologues that abiogenesis is an atheistic scam. And, judging by the DI’s posts on “Evolution News”, they seem to think it has succeeded.