Afterlife Aftermath

You’ll be happy to hear that the good guys won. In scare quotes, because helping the world’s population understand that naturalism is the right way to view the universe is a long-term project that won’t be settled with a single debate. But Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. does a fun thing where they ask people to vote before the debate starts, and then again afterward. We started out the night slightly behind in the polls, and by the time we were done, we were slightly ahead. Mostly by peeling away the undecideds, as any savvy politician strives to do. [Update: oops, not right. See below.] So that counts as a victory especially when the topic is one where many people (not all!) have fairly fixed opinions.