From politics to school classrooms to the daily news, one question continues to rise to the top...
Does science point to a Creator?
CCN and Motive Entertainment invite you into the center of today's most hotly contested debate - broadcast LIVE via satellite from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California!
Invite seekers, skeptics and believers to wrestle with the topic from both sides as they consider Atheism vs. Theism & The Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design.
Featuring a world renowned line-up of talent, the debate will be hosted by actor and writer Ben Stein and moderated by Michael Cromartie. Presenting the position that the natural world contains evidence for a supernatural creator is Jay Richards, noted theologian and Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute.
In his book, The Privileged Planet, Dr. Richards reveals "astounding findings [that] should lead any individual to reevaluate entrenched assumptions about the universe—and even to reconsider our very purpose on what so many have dismissed as nothing more than an accident of cosmic evolution."
Supporting the position of the atheist is Christopher Hitchens, award-winning writer and author of the best-selling God is Not Great in which he asserts, "There still remain four irreducible objections to the religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos..."
This historic debate offers you an unprecedented opportunity to engage your community in lively and thoughtful dialogue about issues of faith.
A great God can definitely stand up to questions and exploration: Give your community the opportunity to hear the evidence, weigh the arguments and decide for themselves!
Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. He regularly writes for the Atlantic Monthly and Slate, and is the author of numerous books, including Letters to a Young Contrarian and Why Orwell Matters. He was named one of the “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy and Britain’s Prospect. As foreign correspondent and travel writer, he has written from more than sixty countries on all five continents. From 1982-2002, he wrote a column called the "Minority Report" for The Nation. Since 1992, he has been columnist and contributing editor at Vanity Fair and, at different times, Washington editor and columnist for Harper’s magazine, American columnist and correspondent for the Spectator, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, Sunday Today, and the Sunday Correspondent. .
Jay W. Richards is Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and theology with honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was formerly a Teaching Fellow. He also has a Th.M. from Calvin Theological Seminary, and an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He is the author of many scholarly and popular articles in publications such as the Washington Post, National Review Online, and Washington Times, as well as several books, including The Untamed God and The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. He is executive producer of the documentary, The Call of the Entrepreneur (Acton Media, 2007), and is currently writing The Christian Case for Capitalism (HarperCollins/HarperOne, 2009).
Michael Cromartie (Moderator) is Vice President at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and he directs both the Evangelicals in Civic Life and Religion & the Media programs. On September 20, 2004, Mr. Cromartie was appointed by President George W. Bush to a two-year term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and elected chairman the following year. He is a senior advisor to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and a senior fellow with The Trinity Forum. He is the host of Radio America's weekly show "Faith and Life"; an adjunct professor at the Reformed Theological Seminary; and an advisory editor of Christianity Today. He is also on the Board of Directors of Mars Hill Audio, and served as an advisor to the PBS documentary series With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Christian Right in America. He is the co-editor, with Richard John Neuhaus, of Piety and Politics.
Ben Stein (Host) is a multi-talented journalist, economist, author, actor and lawyer. Well known for his acting career and signature role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the highly talented Stein graduated with honors from Columbia University and was elected as valedictorian of his Yale Law School graduating class. He has worked as a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and a university adjunct at American University in Washington, D.C., the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. In 1973 and 1974, he served as a speech writer to Presidents Nixon and Ford. He has been a columnist and editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal and a syndicated columnist for numerous papers and magazines. He has written and published sixteen books, seven novels and nine nonfiction books.
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