You know, it's my view basically about religion, that the real conflict and all the fights between religion is who has the best imaginary friend.

We had the battle between Jefferson and Hamilton.

The question is, which god was it?

I think that's probably right, although this is a controversial issue.

since it is the best means of creating a controversy in the public's mind.

In the book, I go over controversies such as this one, and a number of other hot buttons, hot zones, Chernobyls, third rails, and so on including the arts, cloning, crime, free will, education, evolution, gender differences, God, homosexuality, infanticide, inequality, Marxism, morality,

And he told me that when he and Professor

He was full of macho, a kind of macho one upmanship.

And it leads to reservations and other techniques.

Bill is skillful in arguing and debating.

No. (Laughter)

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

This is Herder's philosophy.

A species that actually thrives on arguing.

Yeeralparil argued with the men.

One on the evolution intelligent design quote unquote debate.

I contended against falsehood.

And that gets me back to the dollar, and it gets me back to reminding myself that we know this experience.

That dispute has been settled once and for all.

The third set of ideas are what I call as

It's an idiotic debate. It has to stop.

We don't know where oil comes from. I mean,

The senator remained neutral in the furious controversy.

Theoretically impossible. Theoretically.

So we have these models argument as war, argument as proof and argument as performance.

First, it elevates tactics over substance.

That dispute has been settled once and for all.

The raging olive oil debate between Giada De Laurentiis and the Barefoot Contessa.

More a faith.

He believed that the war was fought in the cause of justice.

We have no argument with Starfleet.

I wouldn't argue with you there.

Although people were making that argument more last summer but even now people are making that argument.

But I want to start with what I call the official dogma.

The general opinion is against the war.

We sided with him in the controversy.

And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.

Heh. Did the two of you argue lately?

I had a little debate with my instructor on the issue of relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel.

The right of peoples to live together in the same state, worshiping differently, freely a Middle East, a world, in which religion is not the subject of division or of debate.

The dispute was finally settled.

What can we work out together?

And as an educator, this is the one that really bothers me

Professor Hapgood 1958.

It's up to you to make the decision.