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  • "Why should Mr. Dawkins "debate" such an obsessive, smug self-publicist with no actual arguments - but just a bag full of rhetoric and philosophical fallacies, and a convincing presentational technique? Dr. Craig would make a very good second-hand car salesman.

    Have any of you actually listened to Dr. Craig's "arguments"? They are painfully lacking in any kind of coherence, and are based on false premises and cod philosophical constructs that do not prove or assert anything. He is also guilty of special pleading with regard to his main defence of a "caused cause" - the Kalam Cosmological Argument.

    Anybody who wants evidence of Dr. Craig's shoddy arguments ought to seek out his debate with Cambridge philosopher Arif Ahmed. Ahmed utterly humiliated Craig in this "debate" by actually deconstructing his arguments and fallacies. I take my hat off to Arif for having the patience to do this, but I imagine Mr. Dawkins doesn't have the patience to go through such a laborious process.

    Anybody going to these "debates" had better keep in mind that reality has nothing to do with presentation style or rhetoric. If you do keep this in mind, you will find Dr. Craig's "arguments" are completely meaningless. This is something that an increasing number of people are realising."
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Christians’ bus challenge to atheist

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins

CHRISTIANS have taken their battle with prominent atheist Richard Dawkins on to the city’s buses.

In 2009, atheists in London paid for 200 adverts on the city’s buses, declaring: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

Now Premier Christian Radio has paid for its own version on Oxford buses, after the distinguished evolutionary biologist turned down the chance to debate with Christian philosopher William Lane Craig when he visits the city later in the month.

The new advert reads: “There’s probably no Dawkins. Now stop worrying and enjoy Oct 25th at the Sheldonian Theatre.”

Prof Lane Craig is touring the UK on his Reasonable Faith tour debating with other academic atheists in London, Cambridge, Birmingham and Manchester.

An open invitation has been sent to Prof Dawkins, formerly Oxford University’s Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, to debate the existence of God at the event.

In the past Prof Dawkins has said he will not debate with “people whose only claim to fame is that they are professional debators.”

The adverts will appear on 30 Stagecoach vehicles from Monday for two weeks.

Prof Craig said the poster campaign “leaves a shred of hope that he may turn up”.

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