I blog on a site called Christopher Hitchens Watch, which is devoted to what my confederates and I refer to as “the Glorious Hitch Hunt”, and which takes a critical and fairly lighthearted look at Hitchens’s work. Looking around for some info on the debate, I came across your post on Life Without Faith and judged it by far the best account of the debate currently available. So I ‘ve taken the liberty of writing up a post of my own that quotes liberally from yours and also includes a link back to it. I hope you don’t think I’ve been over-liberal because I think what you wrote deserves to be as widely read as possible.

http://christopherhitchenswatch.blogspot.com/

I doubt whether this subject will capture a lot of attention on our blog, as Hitch has been “debating” religious types regularly for over a year now and the phenomenon of both sides talking past each other and refusing to engage has been in evidence from the start.

On the subject of morality, like your correspondent Ajita Kamal, I unreservedly recommend Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal, which takes episodes from the life of Charles Darwin to illustrate and explore human moral sensibilities.

I envy you being able to work in astronomy as it has always been my favorite science, and I wish you a long and successful career in the field.

Yours agnostically!

Tim Groves