Famed atheist Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, takes on Dr. David Berlinski, author of The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.  The Does Atheism Poison Everything? Debate took place on Sept. 7 in Birmingham, AL before a sold out crowd of 1,200.  Crews from CSPAN-2 and 60 Minutes were in attendance.  Read about the debate in The Birmingham News.

Christopher Hitchens, an atheist and polemicist, is best known for his controversial book, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and, most recently, for his memoir, Hitch 22, which has been on The New York Times Best Seller List since its release last month.  Hitchens has been a columnist for The Atlantic, Slate, and Vanity Fair, and has debated his views around the English-speaking world.  Hitchens is one of the so-called “New Atheists”, along with other notables like Richard Dawkins.

David Berlinski describes himself as “a secular Jew and an agnostic.”  He has written a number of books on mathematics, but he is best known for his appearance in the Ben Stein film “Expelled” as well as for his irreverent assault upon the New Atheists in his book, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.  Mr. Berlinski, whose immediate family was saved during the Holocaust by the "American Schindler" Varian Fry, resides in Paris.  He possesses a Ph.D. from Princeton University and formerly taught philosophy and mathematics at Stanford University and the University of Paris.