I think its interesting how you have Christopher Hitchens and Dawkins arguing with theists about philosophy and theology. I am glad that they are raising newfound interest in philosophy, but their not really philosophers, yet they seem to act like they are the authority on the matter.

I don't know, I just think instead of listening to scientists and writers on the topic of philosophy, perhaps we should listen to the philosophers... however as history shows, something as such would be something quite new, nobody seems very fond of philosophers.

Hmm you took my statement to be more extreme then I intended. I am just illustrating my dismay at the fact that non-philosophers seem to have taken control over the philosophic debate in the public eye. I am not saying that they don't have a right to say it, or even that their wrong, it's just why don't we see philosophers in the public arena battling it out. You always see religion and science fighting (why they would argue makes no since as they aren't even in the same arena) it just seems that philosophers are left out of their own debate.

Science is a form of philosophy, undoubtedly, but it uses a specific predetermined method and tests only physical things, science can't speak on issues of ethics, aesthetics, or metaphysics because thats not what it is designed to do. It's like telling a brain surgeon to go test the seismic activity of a volcano, its just absurd to me.

Oh and what about Dennett? (I am not saying you need a degree in philosophy either, but just some actually knowledge in it would help)

Well, I'm sure Dawkins et al would have some knowledge of philosophy. And philosophers are and have been involved in the debate: Dennett, Russell, Nietzsche etc.