While he may sound like Al Gore, he looks like Emma Watson.
Posted on 12/09/2009 10:58:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Dawkins says he won’t debate William Lane Craig because his only claim to fame is that he’s a professional debater – and he says that people he debates have “got to have something more than that”. Dawkins says “I’m Busy”.
Figures. Libs really do not like to debate folks who can debate back. However, it’s amazing that he wouldn’t try and stand up to someone defending an untestable hypothesis.
(Yup, it is untestable. And yup, I’m still a Christian.)
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Here’s William Lane Craig’s previous comment on why Richard Dawkins won’t debate him :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ1pbeXN8qo
This is Dawkin’s exact words :
“I have always said that when invited to do debates that I will be happy to debate a Bishop, a Cardinal, a Pope, an Archbishop; indeed I have done both. But I don’t take on creationists and I don’t take on people whose only claim to fame is that they are professional debaters. They’ve gotta have something more than that; I’m busy”.
Because Richard Dawkins is a spineless pansy who knows that once he gets outside his circle of acquaintances and acolytes, any real debating opposition would stomp him flat.
I read this piece of critique of Dawkin’s response from this website :
TITLE : Too Busy for the Best
http://aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=3668
CUT AND PASTE EXCERPT :
Recall that Dawkins’ original comment was: “... and I don’t take on people whose only claim to fame is that they are professional debaters. They gotta have something more than that, I’m busy.” (Whether his busy schedule was due to grammar or finishing school was not specified.) I myself have similar standards, thus:
1. I do not race people whose only claim to fame is that they are professional runners;
2. I do not play chess against people whose only claim to fame is that they are chess masters;
3. I do not play one-on-one with people whose only claim to fame is that they are basketball stars;
4. I do not set my car against people whose only claim to fame is that they have a fast car; and
5. I do not attempt to match the accomplishments of folks whose only claim to fame is that they are in the Guinness Book of World Records ®.
After all, they have to have something more than that, I’m busy.
In fact, I vastly prefer to race people who are famous for eating, to play chess against people who are famous for boxing, to play one-on-one basketball with people who are famous for chess, and to try to match the accomplishments of people who generally aren’t outstanding in the particular field of endeavor in which I’m engaged.
So I can understand why Dawkins would prefer to debate men who have ecclesiastical rank that is unrelated to debating skill (bishops, archbishops, and especially cardinals) rather than someone who is actually famous for debate. After all, who has time for sure defeat? We’re busy!
Dawkins a coward. He peddles trash like Obama and HATES God.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
(Paperback - Jan 16, 2008)
God is No Delusion:
A Refutation of Richard Dawkins (Paperback)
By Thomas Crean
I propose that Al Gore & Richard Dawkins debate each other twice. In the first debate, Gore can defend Theism. In the second debate, Dawkins can make the case against AGW.
Considering the fact that when Dr Dawkins interviewed Wendy Wright she looked quite foolish by asking for the material evidence and then ignoring that evidence when it was presented to her. She then attempted to change the subject. That seems to be a common creationist/i.d tactic ignore the questions you cannot answer.
Just like GGG has been dodging this question for a few weeks now:
Please explain why we find no trilobites above the Permian strata, and why we find no dinosaurs above the cretaceous strata, or no mammals in the Cambrian strata?”
“Never wrestle with a pig. You’ll just get dirty and only the pig will enjoy it”
And I thought GGG, editor-surveyor, and Wendy1946 were loons. Makes them seem like Rhodes Scholars.
Any hobgoblin in a moral storm, it seems...
Seems creationism is making a big comeback with the taliban, too...
While he may sound like Al Gore, he looks like Emma Watson.
The resemblance is... well, uncanny.
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