Former Atheist, (now a Christian) who led to the first Dawkin's Forum site closing.

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Regardless of what actually lead to the forum being shut down, this guy is relating his experiences of being on the forum as an atheist, becoming a Christian whilst debating on the forum , and Dawkins having to come onto the forum as a result of the problems occuring as a result of David Robertson (author of 'The Dawkins Letters') debating on the forum.

Richard Dawkins discussed with people on the forums quite often, he didn't need to "come on to the forum" to do anything. I know that is what he claims happened but that doesn't make it true. It is however very misleading to claim that what happened is the reason the site was shut down, there was a lot more to it.

This story is interesting to me because around that time I had joined the Dawkins site, but felt like a lamb led to the slaughter so didn't go back.

RDF was not and is not for holding hands and pussyfooting around. It was very hardline, but then it needed to be. You want to discuss feelings or personal revelation, don't expect any sympathy but demands for evidence. If a creationist posted on that forum he could throw out 50 baseless assertions in a single post and just see what part of the shit would stick. This means that any of such posts needed to be debunked not only hard but as thorough as possible and no quarter given. If that made you feel uncomfortable that is just too bad but not their problem.