dr. berlinski. are you in a negative on the resolution is christopher hitchens, cultural critic and best-selling author and most recently he is the author of the memoirs, "hitch 22". this is also a best-seller and also available in the lobby and you will have the same opportunity to meet christopher hitchens and you have your book signed by him. now i just a bit about the format for tonight's debate. first of all, there will be 12 minutes of opening statements by each of these men. dr. berlinski will be the first to speak and then of course christopher hitchens and we will have a rebuttal of six minutes each and then a speaker recap, that is to say some final remarks for that torsion of the debate, three minutes each. i will be timekeeping as we move along and i am asking these gentlemen not to trample those time limits. and then we will move into a question and answer time. i asked some questions here which have been submitted and i will read them to the two of them and i will signal them at the en