Actually, he knew it was going to be in public, and he knew it was going to be on this forum. Nice try, though. So if it was going to be on this forum, how was it supposed to get started? It seems to me that if you propose a public debate with your champion, it's up to you to get your champion registered and introduced to the group--or at least his opponent--under his screen name.
They were going to be debates right here on FR. There was going to a question (such as What causes AIDS?, Does Epigenetic Adaptation Support neo-Darwinian Evolution or Intelligent Design?, etc), followed by opening statements and rebuttals. (I even had a global warming skeptic from Australia standing by, because it appeared that the Darwin Central crowd seemed to be dabbling with the idea that it is primarily human-caused.) At any rate, we were going to create a separate thread for spectator comments to keep the debate thread clean. Finally, we were also going to have a question and answer period at the end of the debate.
==It seems to me that if you propose a public debate with your champion, it's up to you to get your champion registered and introduced to the group—or at least his opponent—under his screen name.
There was no point in signing up my scientists, as Allmendream dropped out of the debate, and I couldn't find any other evos who were willing to take up the challenge on either topic.