Dr. William Lane Craig "eastwooding" Richard Dawkins at the Contending with Christianity’s Critics conference on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at Watermark Community Church in Dallas, Texas
I like that.
He spent 25 years (from age 25 to 50) as an assistant professor or lecturer before a privately wealthy friend of his endowed a new professorship and appointed him to it.
He is often described as an "evolutionary biologist", but he is actually a zoologist by qualification - and was not a particularly accomplished or well-known one after 30 years in the field.
Dawkins is a pseudointellectual who writes popular books for the purpose of reassuring fellow pseudointellectuals in their chosen worldview.
Dawkins is really not particularly bright.
Americans of the twenty-first century, and foreigners, often fail to realize the supreme importance which the Founding Fathers originally attached to the role of religion in the structure of the unique civilization which they hoped would emerge as the first free people in modern times. The Founding Fathers believed that an important pillar of a free society, a just government and human happiness was religion, because it was considered to be the foundation of morality and virtue. And they believed that the ability of a free people to survive under a Republican Constitution depended on them remaining virtuous and morally strong.
In 1787, the very ear the Constitution was written and approved by Congress, that same Congress passed the famous Northwest Ordinance. In it, they emphasized the essential need to teach religion and morality in the schools. Here is the way they said it:
Article 3: Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of Mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever be encouraged.
copycat gimmick. Clint pulled it off.