(April 3, 2013 at 7:01 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I'm not sure what your objection is exactly, since what I said to start with is that Dawkins will debate Christians but not Creationists.
This isn’t quite accurate, Dawkins will debate creationists, he debated Lennox and McGrath a few years ago and they are both creationists. He just won’t debate young Earth creationists. Apparently he’s okay with debating someone who believes a virgin gave birth, a man rose from the dead, a man brought another man back to life, a man walked on water, and a man turned water into whine; but if you disagree with Dawkins on the age of the Earth you’re not worth his time! The truth is he doesn’t want to debate a Biblical literalist because they hold a much more consistent view of scripture and how it relates to reality than the other creationists do.
If you’re goal is to demolish Christians in debate, I don’t think that Dawkins is the man you want debating Christians, he’s terrible at it.
“The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist.” – Michael Ruse
