Posted: Dec 12, 2011 12:16 am
Mick Wrote:
There's a lot of pressure on Dawkins to debate Craig. The motivating sentiment behind this pressure is this: People want to see Dawkins put his money where his mouth is by debating one of Christianity's most skilled debaters, Craig. If Dawkins avoids engagement with Christianity's finest, and instead blithely parades the "delusion" of Christians on an international basis, then I would call that intellectual cowardice. If Christianity is so intellectually bankrupt, then he needs to tackle our best to show it.
The problem, I think, is that neither Dawkins nor a lot of people consider consider a debate to be "putting your money where your mouth is". His ideas are out there to be countered and have been countered by many people:
What is so special about having Dawkins in the room when WLC is trying to refute him? Some ideas are better expressed in written form and I would contend that such complex questions as Does a god exist? And Is there design in the universe? are complex ideas that work much better on paper.