[aerique]

I'm going to react to the OP through your post.

> The interview Dawkins had with the Indian metaphysician (I forgot the name) made me realize how blinded Dawkins is by his material-reductionist belief system. Dawkins appeared to have no idea what the man was talking about because his belief system could not compute the meaning of what the man was trying to explain to him.

I did not see that at all on the above fragment, maybe at the end a little. It was mostly two men having an interesting conversation albeit at different metaphysical levels and, especially Dawkins, trying to find a common ground.

The video is called "Satish Kumar schools Richard Dawkins" which is ridiculous and leading.

[lawlessone]

All debate videos on YouTube are like that now to get views. Declaring X won before you even watch. Usually it's video of Ben Shapiro awkwardly reciting some argument he remembered wrong, while the commenters make disparaging remarks about the other parties hair color.

Debate's have become less about who made good points etc and more like a pokemon battle of debate tactics.

steelmanning, devils advocate, etc