Dawkins claims that he much prefers educated argument, but that it seems very hard to get the likes of Jesuits or bishops to discuss religion with him in public. (He notes that there are exceptions, and in The God Delusion he is very approving of some senior religious figures he has debated with.)
He does state though that he will not now debate with Creationists, on the basis that he has never been up against one who was interested in having a genuine argument. (And I suspect he thinks, probably with good reason, that people who try to set up such debates really just want a punch-up.)
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Date: 2007-08-27 02:45 pm (UTC)He does state though that he will not now debate with Creationists, on the basis that he has never been up against one who was interested in having a genuine argument. (And I suspect he thinks, probably with good reason, that people who try to set up such debates really just want a punch-up.)