Further resources relating to the Reasonable Faith Tour 2011

The following resources provide further background to Bill Craig's forthcoming Reasonable Faith Tour 2011.

There's Probably No Dawkins - so enjoy a lecture instead!

Richard Dawkins' refusal to defend his arguments in The God Delusion in a debate with William Lane Craig means that Craig will deliver a lecture critiquing those arguments instead. Dawkins is currently promoting his new book but it would be good if he decided to turn up and show that he is able to defend what he wrote in his earlier book.

Polly Toynbee steps in where Grayling & Dawkins fear to tread

Polly Toynbee, current President of the British Humanist Association, will debate William Lane Craig at the opening event of the Reasonable Faith Tour 2011. She has agreed to a debate whereas President-elect, A.C. Grayling, has declined a similar invitation, declaring it "very uninteresting" (apparently finding the existence of fairies of more interest).

15 June 2011: For the full text of Dr Daniel Came's letter to Richard Dawkins with the comment on "cowardice", Dawkins' reply and Came's response, see Justin Brierley's recent blog entry. Came challenges Dawkins on the genetic fallacy, "silly questions" and the nature of "nothing".

09 June 2011: Will there be an empty chair on the stage of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre when William Lane Craig provides a critique of some of the arguments in Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion?

A.C. Grayling would rather debate fairies

A.C. Grayling says that he would find it preferable to debate fairies than the existence of God or the basis of morality, despite advocating that intellectuals must "actively engage" with ideas for the benefit of society.

Why Richard Dawkins is inconsistent in refusing to debate with Bill Craig.

Further background to the invitation to Dawkins and responses to the reasons he gives for declining the invitation.

23 May 2011: William Lane Craig was interviewed on BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence programme concerning Richard Dawkins' refusal to debate him. Craig outlines the arguments he would use. At the end of the 7-minute interview, the interviewer offers to host a Craig-Dawkins debate on Sunday Sequence if Dawkins refuses a public debate. Listen to the interview below:

Richard Dawkins accused of cowardice

In a Telegraph online article, Richard Dawkins is accused of cowardice for refusing a number of invitations to debate with William Lane Craig. Read the original article or see a YouTube clip with some additional commentary.

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