Dawkins' Debate Rejections

[Cephus]

That's basically it.  Dawkins (I think, but it may have been someone else) has proposed moderated online debates.  Basically what we do here, but each response would be moderated by a panel agreed upon by both parties.  The responses could potentially be held up from posting if they are off-point, non-responsive, etc.

I think Dawkins and other biologists would come off MUCH better doing this than on a stage.

Boru

You'd never get creationists to agree to any moderated panel because they wouldn't be able to pull all of the dishonest crap that they do on stage.  Online, you can take as much time as you need to answer all of the questions in as much detail as you need, something the creationists simply do not want.  They want to Gish Gallop across the stage and pretend that their complete lack of any actual answers is reasonable because there are time limits and scientists can't answer a dozen questions, thrown at random, in that amount of time.  As has been said though, science isn't done on a stage, it's done in a laboratory.  Turning it into a stage show, especially with inherently dishonest creationists, is a complete waste of time.