RE: [asa] Ray Comfort vs. Dawkins

Update: Dawkins declined the debate.

RE: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89825

Excerpt:

Atheist Richard Dawkins has rejected an offer of $10,000 for an hour-long debate with Christian author Ray Comfort, telling WND he would participate in the argument only on a list of conditions, including a $100,000 donation to his foundation.

Dawkins also is demanding that a staff member for his website be allowed to film the event and then distribute it as a DVD, "if he thinks it is funny enough."

As WND reported, Comfort, author of the new book "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence but You Can't Make Him Think," offered Dawkins $10,000 for a debate on creation, evolution and life. A spokeswoman for Dawkins' website earlier told WND Dawkins doesn't debate people from "the flat-earth society."

The challenge from Comfort, who also is co-host with actor Kirk Cameron of the award-winning TV show "The Way of the Master," wasn't taken seriously by Dawkins.

"Ten thousand dollars is less than the typical fee that I am ordinarily offered for lecturing to a serious audience (I often don't accept it, especially in the case of a student audience, because I am a dedicated teacher)," he wrote in response to a WND question about the challenge.

"It is not, therefore, a worthwhile inducement for me to travel all the way across the Atlantic to debate with an ignorant fool," he wrote. "You can tell him that if he donates $100,000 to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (it's a charitable donation, tax deductible) I'll do it."

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Received on Wed Feb 25 17:45:54 2009