1. Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off

Comment #39782 by Isaiah on May 11, 2007 at 11:09 pm

I've been going through the comments on abc's website. Very depressing, we have a long way to go my friends...

2. Jesus 'Love-Bombs' You

Comment #34924 by Isaiah on April 25, 2007 at 3:17 pm

I had to live through this crap also. Hedges describes the process perfectly...

3. Dawkins Delusion (3rd article, Same Stupid Title)

Comment #6244 by Isaiah on November 13, 2006 at 11:18 am

I really do not think this debate with Robertson is going anywhere. He is severely outnumbered, and there are so many ideas floating around that he is not going to be able to satisfactorily answer (or show his inability to answer) all of them. So the situation is bad for all sides concerned.

Anyway, I think we can drop the whole "Dawkins is afraid to confront his adversaries" thing.

What if Dawkins was afraid to confront someone like McGrath in a face-to-face debate? What would that mean?

Well debates are not always won on the merit of a position's truthfulness or logic, but they are often won on the merit of ones rhetorical skill. I'm sure Dawkins would not want to have an issue he cares about this much misrepresented by a botched PR session.

So is Dawkins trying to silence his opponents? Is he in some state of denial? Hiding the facts? Look around, he has three articles called "The Dawkins' Delusion" on his very own website. If someone like McGrath had something coherent and damning to say about "Dawkins' Delusion," he had an entire article to express himself in a convincing and logical manner. The fact that Dawkins is willing to post McGrath's article here shows that Dawkins is not all that impressed with his arguments anyway.

Why would someone want to waist their time debating an OEC anyway? They have nothing to bring to the table, and their position is unfalsifiable. If you demonstrate that the foundation of their Christian faith (The Bible) is scientifically and morally flawed, then they tell you that you are interpreting the Bible wrong, you are Bible illiterate, and that the Bible is not meant to be taken literally during that one particular passage. Or they are going to begin some tired "regression" argument (Yet again, unfalsifiable), plugging a Bronze Age myth into the unknown.

Until you people actually have some sort of empirical evidence for the supernatural (I pray to Allah for fire in test tube A, and fire appears in test tube A…), I do not see where you can get off calling Atheists irrational…