Dawkins: I have always said when invited to do debates that I will be happy to debate a bishop, a cardinal, a pope, an archbishop. But that I don't take on people whose only claim to fame is that they are professional debaters. The new fundamentalist atheist uses the method of scorn in order not to have the argument. It's always saying that here's the ridiculous example, here's the reduct to you, I would absurdum, here is the bad behavior. Richard Dawkins says he has never heard Adhir make such a remark from the pulpit. Charles Rennard asks if we can come back and answer any other questions that were asked in
Does God exist? In this archive debate from 2009, we invited a panel of expert speakers to discuss whether atheism had replaced religion as the new faith of the secular age. Are atheists as blinkered and dogmatic as they claim religious believers to be? Arguing for the motion were former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries and former Editor of the Daily Telegraph Charles Moore. Arguing against the motion were evolutionary biologist and science author Richard Dawkins and philosopher AC Grayling. The debate was chaired by historian, author and commentator Anthony Seldon.
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