{"id":1984,"date":"2011-12-08T23:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/returntorome\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:28:25","slug":"dawkins-dawkins-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/returntorome\/2011\/12\/dawkins-dawkins-craig\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins carrier of bu!!sh-t meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/dawkins-vs-dawkins.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">HT: Ed Feser<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/dawkins-vs-dawkins.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">just hilarious<\/a>. Apparently, the great atheist scientist Richard Dawkins, who recently made quite a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/oct\/20\/richard-dawkins-william-lane-craig\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">public fuss<\/a> in his refusal to ever debate philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reasonablefaith.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=about_william_lane_craig\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">William Lane Craig<\/a>, now claims that he in fact has debated Craig, and according to<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/50\/2011\/12\/6a00d83451b66d69e200e54f36321d8834-800wi.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1985\" title=\"6a00d83451b66d69e200e54f36321d8834-800wi\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/50\/2011\/12\/6a00d83451b66d69e200e54f36321d8834-800wi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\"><\/a> Dawkins, Craig was <em>deeply <\/em>unimpressive when they sparred. That\u2019s a pretty amazing feat: Dawkins is claiming that while<em> <\/em>he would never be caught dead debating Bill Craig\u00a0he has in fact defeated him in debate at least once. I\u2019m not sure that would qualify as a miracle, though it may qualify as an intellectual version\u00a0of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dead Parrot\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e6Lq771TVm4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(HT: Ed Feser) This is just hilarious. Apparently, the great atheist scientist Richard Dawkins, who recently made quite a public fuss in his refusal to ever debate philosopher William Lane Craig, now claims that he in fact has debated Craig, and according to Dawkins, Craig was deeply unimpressive when they sparred. That\u2019s a pretty amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32,129,246],"tags":[22278],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-christianity","category-richard-dawkins","category-william-lane-craig","tag-william-lane-craig"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richard Dawkins carrier of bu!!sh-t meme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(HT: Ed Feser) This is just hilarious. 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