T,bate or not t’bate. William Lane Craig (Oxford) and Dawkins

Today I’m going to see the William Lane Craig talk at the Sheldonian in Oxford. This will be the second time I have been to that venue this year, previously in April I saw Sam Harris discuss his book ‘The Moral Landscape’ with Richard Dawkins. This was rather interesting as he had just come off the back off a debate in the US with William Lane Craig.

There has been some interesting and amusing discussion regarding Dawkins’ reluctance to debate Craig, and in fact, from all sides of the argument. Plenty of atheists, agnostics and Christians alike have chastised Dawkins for refusing the invitation. Likening it to shutting off the argument and being antithetical to his own supposed regard for free thought and inquiry. Read more