Your comment has the same balance and factual content as an editorial in the Sun.
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I can't decide if your post is a joke or if your lifestyle is the joke.
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/PageServer?pagename=publ...
Craig is a serious philosopher with credible philosophical publications to his name. That is why he is worth reading (perhaps more his journal articles than his "popular" books, indicated by "P" in the above list). That is also the reason why Dawkins should take him on in debate.
2. I agree that the issue won't be resolved by logic alone. However, based on Craig's previous debates, he will clearly define his terms and premises, and name the principles of logic used to reach a conclusion. To assert that such debate is "the epitome of irrationality" is itself irrational. You may disagree with his premises and definitions, but that is not the same as irrationality.
3. Dawkins has been asked again and again to debate Craig, and has refused again and again. As I've said before, other prominent atheists have criticised Dawkins on this matter.
4. You can download a number of Craig's debates here: http://rfforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2703927
QUOTE "Some of Prof Dawkins’s contemporaries are not impressed. Dr Daniel Came, a philosophy lecturer and fellow atheist, from Worcester College, Oxford, wrote to him urging him to reconsider his refusal to debate the existence of God with Prof Craig.
In a letter to Prof Dawkins, Dr Came said: 'The absence of a debate with the foremost apologist for Christian theism is a glaring omission on your CV and is of course apt to be interpreted as cowardice on your part.
I notice that, by contrast, you are happy to discuss theological matters with television and radio presenters and other intellectual heavyweights like Pastor Ted Haggard of the National Association of Evangelicals and Pastor Keenan Roberts of the Colorado Hell House'" /QUOTE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8511931/Richard-Daw...
William Lane Craig, Richard Dawkins and the Empty Chair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ldYmg0lpE
Edit: Digestible summary of the issue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8511931/Richard-Daw...
"Perl [is] a biblical reference to the "pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:46)."
Each census form had a unique ID, which is obviously linked to your address as it was sent to you through the post.
In your view, wisdom is an illusion. So is peace. Are not these just specific neurotransmitter configurations? Nothing more. The only 'wisdom' that makes sense according to materialism is: "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!" The only peace that can be gained from materialism is not acceptance of, but numbness to, the absolute vanity of existence and the absence of anything that transcends the merely physical.
I love my wife and kids.
This supports the theory that between 50%-80% of outages are caused by human error, regardless of the resilience of the underlying infrastructure.
It is surely indisputable that much popular music is produced with short-term profit rather than musical excellence in mind.
That, I suggest, is disposable music. Is Britney Spears music getting a bit old? Don't worry, there'll be new mindless, trivial drivel here in a short while.
My Estonian father-in-law was given 5 minutes notice to pack his bags at 5am, and taken to Chernobyl along with many other Estonians. He had no choice. He was not told where they were going.
Thankfully, his task was to be a driver for the Russian officals (who wisely stayed some distance away from the reactor), rather than clearing up the power station.
4200 people who "volunteered" in a similar manner currently reside in Estonia. Many of those who were taken have since died.
According to my worldview, it is preferable because it is real.
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What can be learned by a blind person touching an avatar on a computer screen?
The article makes the difference abundantly clear. This is what the writer learned by meeting the guild leader in real life:
"She was perfectly nice, and an excellent cook. But it was hard not to notice certain things - no matter how bad I felt for noticing them. It was hard not to notice she lived in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood. It was hard not to notice she was fat. It was hard not to notice that despite her dreams of going back to school and becoming a paramedic, she just worked part-time at a local pizza joint."
It is that level of personal, real, gritty, disturbing, eye-opening raw detail that is often hidden behind an avatar.