The full story... Cardinal and atheist argue on Easter Monday ELEANOR HALL: For some people the Easter weekend has little religious significance but for others it's a chance to explore life's big questions. In that spirit the ABC's Q&A program last night brought together Australia's most highly ranked Catholic Cardinal George Pell and British atheist and author Oxford professor Richard Dawkins. As Meredith Griffiths reports it provoked an at times fiery debate. MEREDITH GRIFFITHS: The show started off calmly enough but Cardinal Pell got a reaction when he said Hitler and Stalin personified social Darwinism. GEORGE PELL: It's the struggle for survival. The strong take what they can and the weak give what they must. And there's nothing to restrain them. And we've seen that in two great atheist movements of the last century. Right let's clearly distinguish two things here. First, atheism had nothing to do with Hitler or Stalin (applause). Stalin was an atheist, Hitler was not. It doesn't matter what they were with respect to atheism. They did their horrible things for entirely different reasons. MEREDITH GRIFFITHS: Richard Dawkins was asked about the Big Bang and how something could come from nothing. RICHARD DAWKINS: I'm not qualified to answer the question but what I am sure about is that it most certainly is not solved by postulating an intelligence, a creative intelligence who raises even bigger questions of his own existence. That certainly is not going to be the answer, whatever else is. MEREDITH GRIFFITHS: The pair