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I first heard of Drew Hansen when I was a sophomore in high school. I was a mere novice debater in the podunk town of Puyallup, Wash., but Drew was a big-city whiz tearing up the local championship debate circuit from up north. Everyone knew who Drew was -- the...
Hansen switches briefly to debater mode, citing historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ, defending the integrity of New Testament manuscripts, and quoting C.S. Lewis, one of his favorite authors. But then he slows down and turns to discussing God as a balance between "authority and friend."
"He's more a moderator than a debater,"Williams says.
But it was on the computer networks that he found his true voice, first at the San Francisco-based WELL (where he posted tens of thousands of messages a year) and then at Time Online. He was a gifted writer and a fearless debater: witty, opinionated, unflinchingly open and honest...
In his column entitled "Big Mouth, Big Ideas" (signed piece, Feb. 21, 1995), David B. Lat has taken an incorrect premise upon which to base a flawed argument for not teaching sex education in public schools. His logical mistakes are interesting, considering Lat (himself a debater) spends most of the...