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→Counter-apologetics
The atheist [[Luke Muehlhauser]], defines counter-apologetics as "a response to [[Christian apologetics]]...examining the claims and tactics of Christian apologists and then equipping [a thinker] with [[skepticism|skeptical]] responses to them"<ref>Muehlhauser, Luke (March 26, 2010), "[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=7867 Counter-Apologetics: What is Counter-Apologetics?]", Common Sense Atheism (blog)</ref>
The atheist [[Luke Muehlhauser]], defines counter-apologetics as "a response to [[Christian apologetics]]...examining the claims and tactics of Christian apologists and then equipping [a thinker] with [[skepticism|skeptical]] responses to them"<ref>Muehlhauser, Luke (March 26, 2010), "[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=7867 Counter-Apologetics: What is Counter-Apologetics?]", Common Sense Atheism (blog)</ref>
[[Atheist apologetics]] have been very ineffective. The atheist [[Sam Harris]] quipped about [[William Lane Craig]] that he was "The one Christian apologist who seems to have put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpM0D-MHyzs William Lane Craig Puts the Fear of God in Atheists], video clip of the [[William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris debate]]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaHXKLRKzg The God Debate II: Harris vs. Craig], University of Notre Dame YouTube channel</ref>
Luke Muehlhauser wrote:
{{Cquote|As far as I can tell, he has won nearly all his debates with atheists. When debating him, atheists have consistently failed to put forward solid arguments, and consistently failed to point out the flaws in Craig’s arguments...
This is especially embarrassing for atheists because Craig’s arguments and debates are easily available, and he uses the same arguments all the time. So it should be easy for atheists to prepare for a debate with Craig.<ref>[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=392#more-392 William Lane Craig’s Debates (Reviews)]</ref>}}
Atheists have performed badly in debates (see: [[Atheism debates]] and [[Atheism vs. Christianity debates]]).
In 1990, the atheist philosopher [[Michael Martin]] indicated there was a general [[Atheism and apathy|absence of an atheistic response]] to contemporary work in the [[philosophy]] of religion and in jest he indicated that it was his "cross to bear" to respond to [[theism|theistic]] arguments.<ref>''Open Questions: Diverse Thinkers Discuss God, Religion, and Faith'' by Luís F. Rodrigues, page 201</ref> Yet, in 1994, Michael Martin was criticized for his eleventh hour cancellation of his debate with [[Greg Bahnsen]] (see: [[Greg Bahnsen and debate]] and [[Press release after Michael Martin pulled out of Martin-Bahnsen debate|Bahnson-Martin debate press release]]).<ref name="Bahsen at the Stein debate">[http://www.frame-poythress.org/frame_articles/Bahnsen.htm Bahsen at the Stein debate] by John Frame</ref>
=== Inadequacy of counter-apologetics ===
=== Inadequacy of counter-apologetics ===