Why Richard Dawkins should debate Christians

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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

I agree, although that just furthers my point that this thread is based on an inaccurate principle anyway. I don't think Dawkins is a great debater. Who cares though, debate is so overrated as a method for establishing truth. Truth is truth, not who is the best at presenting their ideas.