Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins Recent Refusal to Debate William Lane Craig

STOP PRESS! Brand new article out in The Guardian (22nd October 2011) by atheist Daniel Came criticizing Dawkins recent refusal to debate Craig:

Richard Dawkins's refusal to debate is cynical and anti-intellectualist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/oct/22/richard-dawkins-re...

Dawkins 20th October 2011 article in The Guardian:
Why I refuse to debate with William Lane Craig
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/richard-dawkins-william-l...

Dawkins Hitler quote:
Richard Dawkins: The Atheist Evangelist, Larry Taunton, Issue Number 18, December 2007
http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evange...

11 Excuses (so far) that Dawkins has used to not debate William Lane Craig:
http://aatheism.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-response-to-dawkins-latest-anti.html

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[imconfusednow]

Do you have a source that says Daniel Came is an atheist, I don't think he is.

Craig is a good debater but that does not mean his arguments are valid, Dawkins probably thinks he will lose because it is a format that suits Craig. It would result in the audience being convinced if Craigs arguments, which are wrong.

[Shazoolo]

@imconfusednow Hi. Came is most definately an atheist. Here is the quote and source which identifies him as such: 'Some of Prof Dawkins’s contemporaries are not impressed. Dr Daniel Came, a philosophy lecturer and fellow atheist, from Worcester College, Oxford, wrote to him urging him to reconsider his refusal to debate the existence of God with Prof Craig.' (See full article: Richard Dawkins accused of cowardice for refusing to debate existence of God, The Telegraph, Saturday 12 November 2011)

[Venefica82]

I like your video and I agree with allot of it. However I do not agree that you need a religion to have an idea of what is right and what is wrong. My grandfather where an Atheist and he was a kind, moral man who definitely knew what is right and what is wrong. He was a good grandfather, a good father and a good husband, and during WW2 he risked his own life to get Jews away from the Germans and over the borders to Sweden where they could be safe.

[Shazoolo]

@Venefica82 Thanks. We Christians do not say that people of other faiths, or no faith (such as atheists) cannot be good & moral without being Christian or religious.This is a misconception some people have of Christianity. We believe that God has written a basic moral code on ALL our hearts and all feel it to various extents (whether we accept God or not): 'God's law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.' Rom 2:15

[HannoverFisk]

@Shazoolo bs

[rpottage]

He's made is reason clear many times. The fact that Craig and his followers do not understand that he is constantly providing examples of his overall meaning... well that's just further evidence that he's right. It would be useless. Craig is a nutjob crackpot with no interest in truth who's sole purpose in debating is to debate, and uses child tricks like constantly changing the subject without addressing it in a blatant attemt to keep his opponent off balance; & uses Kalam Argment fails.

[epicdeed]

Craig is an articulate debater, but still can provide no evidence for his " beliefs". He's still just another superstitious faith-er

[Shazoolo]

@crispy380 You were one of the first people to begin saying this? This is surely a difficult thing to prove. How do you know? Craig has been doing the rounds for years. How old are you? Your example of a Harvard Graduate would not be one of intelligence but rather incoherence. Different thing (and Craig can't be accused of the latter as even Christopher Hitchens stated Craig was very formidable and articulate). As for a troll? lol! Be real. Seriously though, listen to the mp3s.

[crispy380]

@Shazoolo Actually you are wrong, I was one of the first people to start saying that he was hiding behind his vocab, and I made my conclusion by listening to what he has to say. As for qualifications, you can be a Harvard graduate and still have nothing but babble come out of your mouth. So either he's unintelligent or he's trolling.

[torontoBluejays87]

@Shazoolo What if God really doesn't care? What if there is a God who started the cosmological processes of creating galaxies, stars, planets and finally life, who has not a care in the world about what happens? This is the principle that Einstein in some ways supported and I think a more plausible explanation than the loving God/divine intervention explanation. We make our own morals and Gods in my opinion.

[netokor]

RD is afraid to debate. He and his fanatics hide behind the delusion that Craig is unworthy of RD's time. You hit the nail. Their pride has destroyed their common sense and no matter how logical your arguments in this video are, they will not stop worshipping Dawkins. Only God can change a bigot's heart, and in spite of their vulgarity, insolence and hatred for us, they need our prayers. The Son of God would still have died for Dawkins's soul even if it had been the only soul at stake.