Dawkins dodges a debate…again

The most famous atheist in the world has stated "there are no good arguments" for God’s existence, yet continues to run away from debating a philosopher who appears to have plenty, says Andy Bannister

The New Atheism, the insanely popular movement that in the 2000s made celebrities of many atheists, has all but collapsed.

Christopher Hitchens is dead. Sam Harris has become a figure of fun. Daniel Dennett has retreated behind his beard and his study door. Lesser figures like Ayaan Hirsi Ali now claim they’re Christian.

And then there’s Richard Dawkins.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Dawkins. His book The God Delusion, while riddled with more inaccuracies than a government computer system, was remarkably readable and was the first New Atheist work I read when researching my 2014 rebuttal book, The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist. Dawkins and I almost did a dialogue in Toronto two years later, but he had to pull out due to poor health.