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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 22 Apr 2016

    Did Christopher Hitchens have a deathbed conversion? @michaelshermer explodes the rumor.http://moralarc.org/real-christopher-hitchens/ …

    7:15 AM - 22 Apr 2016
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      1. Willis Domingo‏ @WillisDomingo 30 Apr 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @michaelshermer #Hitchens was an exemplary atheist If only he had decent taste in literaturehttp://willisdomingo.com/willisdomingo/christopher_hitchens_arguably.html …

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      1. Adela Talbot‏ @adelatalbot 22 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer Sure, let's trust an Evangelical who stands to profit off claims about a man no longer able to speak for himself.

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      2. Jake Livingstone‏ @JvLivingstone 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @michaelshermer Atheism is the ultimate trap. How can one be so blind?

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      3. Gordon Thompson‏ @gordon_thompson 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @JvLivingstone

        @JvLivingstone @sapinker @michaelshermer I was just thinking the same about you actually

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      4. Jake Livingstone‏ @JvLivingstone 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @gordon_thompson

        @gordon_thompson @sapinker @michaelshermer How can something as complex humans come into existence through unguided processes?

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      5. Gordon Thompson‏ @gordon_thompson 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @JvLivingstone

        @JvLivingstone @sapinker @michaelshermer Something called "Evolution". Read a book, a proper book, one that is written within the 100 yrs

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      6. Jake Livingstone‏ @JvLivingstone 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @gordon_thompson

        @gordon_thompson @sapinker @michaelshermer So natural selection can account for the complexity of all life. The eye, the brain, the heart?

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      7. Gordon Thompson‏ @gordon_thompson 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @JvLivingstone

        @JvLivingstone sorry, I've got better things to do than argue with morons, you won't change your mind, believe what you want.

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      8. Eamon‏ @pokeymarley 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @gordon_thompson

        @gordon_thompson @JvLivingstone dear me Gordon..where did it all start?..from nothing?..then nothing?...if not?..what is "matter"? Tbc..LOL!

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      9. Gordon Thompson‏ @gordon_thompson 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @pokeymarley

        @pokeymarley @JvLivingstone You fail to understand something complicated and invent something more complicated to explain it. That's stupid

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      2. OhVienna #FBPE‏ @dornerk 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Definitely not .. he stared into the eternal and infinite abyss with eyes wide open and unswayed.

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      3. Jake Livingstone‏ @JvLivingstone 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @dornerk

        @dornerk @sapinker ...and then he met God. And I pray he had mercy on Hitchens after a lifetime of mockery.

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      4. OhVienna #FBPE‏ @dornerk 22 Apr 2016
        Replying to @JvLivingstone

        @JvLivingstone Yawn .....

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      1. plink‏ @robbertwplink 24 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer Of course he didn't however the religious will make any claim that suits,they are covered by the veil of death.

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      1. Ronnie Corvid‏ @ronniecorvid 22 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer no spoilers, please.

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      1. David Zugman‏ @DJZ3 22 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer I really hope not. I think God would have a thing or two to say about the Iraq war

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      1. Ted Faber‏ @snorerot13 22 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer The only one I can imagine is from animate to inanimate. Points for someone trying a difficult hoax, tho.

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      1. paul elledge‏ @microbear1 22 Apr 2016
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer of course not. Absurd.

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