Dawkins explains why he wont debate William Lane Craig

[ElDinero]

This bit of that article is hilarious, reminds me of the sort of thing Mark Twain would say:

But what are we to make of this attempt to turn my non-appearance into a self-promotion stunt? In the interests of transparency, I should point out that it isn't only Oxford that won't see me on the night Craig proposes to debate me in absentia: you can also see me not appear in Cambridge, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and, if time allows, Bristol.

I guess I don't mind Dawkins' argument here, except in the fact that pretty much anyone he's likely to debate believes equally appalling things. He talks about looking forward to a pleasant conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has hardly been free of controversy himself.