Richard Dawkins' debate with Giles Fraser
On February 19, 2012 The Daily Telegraph reported concerning Richard Dawkins' radio debate with Giles Fraser: "...some critics of Dawkins branded him "an embarrassment to atheism" after what many listeners considered a humiliation in a Radio 4 debate with Giles Fraser, formerly Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, in which the professor boasted he could recite the full title of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species", then when challenged, dithered and said: 'Oh God.'"[1]
On February 14, 2012, an editorial in The Daily Telegraph claimed regarding the radio debate: "Dr. Fraser skewered the atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins so fabulously, so stylishly, and so thoroughly that anti-religion’s high priest was reduced to incoherent mumbling and spluttering."[2]
See: Recording of Giles Frasier stumping Richard Dawkins about the full title of the Origin of Species
Theodore Beale wrote concerning the embarrassing incident for Dawkins:
| “ | As I have said repeatedly, Richard Dawkins is a huge intellectual fraud, and perhaps those who previously expressed incredulity at the idea that I would quite easily trounce the old charlatan in a debate will find it just a bit more credible now. This behavior isn't an outlier or a momentary lapse of memory, it is entirely characteristic. The man quite frequently pretends to knowledge that he patently does not possess and assumes he knows things that he obviously does not, which is why he avoids debate with those who are aware of his intellectual pretensions and are capable of exposing them.
It's bad enough that Dawkins couldn't come up with the name of what he considers to be the most important book ever written immediately after claiming he could do so, but in addition to stumbling a little on the subtitle, he even forgot the rather important part of the title that refers to the actual mechanism supposedly responsible![3] |
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(The full title of Charles Darwin's book is On the The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life and evolutionists rarely cite the book's full title as it is racist and cumbersome.)
See also
- Instances of Richard Dawkins ducking debates
- Richard Dawkins' public refusal to debate creationists
- Richard Dawkins and William Lane Craig
- Richard Dawkins and Dinesh D'Souza
- Richard Dawkins and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (Denied debating him after losing video taped debate, refuses to debate another time)
- Atheism and cowardice
- Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian
- Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates
- Atheism and Debate
References
- ↑ Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012
- ↑ For once, Richard Dawkins is lost for words - Atheists’ arrogance is their Achilles’ heel, as a cringemaking radio performance has proved By Stephen Pollard, Feb 14, 2012
- ↑ Richard Dawkins, sans pants, Wednesday, February 15, 2012
