Recently, I’ve been posting blog comments saying that atheists shouldn’t debate William Lane Craig, given his track record of dishonesty, especially his track record of misrepresenting his opponents’ views. Now, Richard Dawkins has written a blog post on why he won’t debate Craig giving another reason: Craig is an apologist for genocide. (HT: PZ) This [...]
Category Archives: debates
Dawkins: I won’t debate an apologist for genocide
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 20, 2011
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How William Lane Craig misleads his followers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 3, 2011
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Ever since going to the Harris-Craig debate, Craig has been on my mind an awful lot. There’s one thing I’ve alluded to here and here, and meant to do a post on, but kept putting off: the fact that Craig works very hard to give his followers a false impression of the facts on key [...]
Harris is right, I was wrong
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 17, 2011
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Sam Harris blogs about his debate with Craig: While I believe I answered (or preempted) all of Craig’s substantive challenges, I’ve received a fair amount of criticism for not rebutting his remarks point for point. Generally speaking, my critics seem to have been duped by Craig’s opening statement, in which he presumed to narrow the [...]
The Harris-Craig debate: addenda
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 14, 2011
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Two things: Harris’ critique of divine command theory I had to roll my eyes at part 2 of Luke’s review of the debate, where Luke claims Harris’ entire first rebuttal was “fail” because it was all irrelevant. But Luke simply ignores one of the most important points of the entire speech: that Craig’s moral theory [...]
The Sam Harris-William Lane Craig debate: a review
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 11, 2011
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You can hear the audio of the debate here. Here’s what I took away from it: Harris is a really good speaker How good? Good enough that, if I ever wanted to brush up on my public speaking skills, watching videos of Harris would be at the top of my to do list. Good enough [...]