[Enterprise]

"It's great virtue is that it puts rival ideas up against each other, as argued by people who passionately espouse those ideas, and then it lets the truth emerge through a kind of gladiatorial elimination."

This is a good summary of debating. There might be any given subject and the participants might be assigned to debate either side of the subject. Thus, one MUST study and understand both sides of an idea in depth in order to debate it intelligently.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Thus, one MUST study and understand both sides of an idea in depth in order to debate it intelligently.

Which is why atheists lose debates.