Quotes about Debate
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
- CS Lewis
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
- Thomas Jefferson
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
- Will Rogers
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
- Will Rogers
You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.
- Will Rogers
Reductio ad absurdum, or reduction to absurdity, is a form of argument that proves a statement by demonstrating that its opposite is absurd.
- William Lane Craig
A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites.
- William Lane Craig
When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
- Billy Sunday
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
- NT Wright
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
- Ben Stein
Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
- Francis Collins
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
- Charles Colson