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== British Humanist Association's withdrawal out of agreed upon debate with the Christian apologist William Lane Craig ==
[[File:Sam Harris 01.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Sam Harris]] once described [[William Lane Craig]] as “the one Christian apologist who has put the fear of [[God]] into many of my fellow atheists”.<ref name="ReferenceB">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/19/christian-pastor-atheists-debates</ref> ]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and Debate]]
In August 19, 2011, [[Fox News]] reported:
{{cquote|American Evangelical theologian [[William Lane Craig]] is ready to debate the rationality of faith during his U.K tour this fall, but it appears that some atheist philosophers are running shy of the challenge.
This month president of the British Humanist Association, [[Polly Toynbee]], pulled out of an agreed debate at London’s Westminster Central Hall in October, saying she “hadn’t realized the nature of Mr. Lane Craig’s debating style.”
Lane Craig, who is a professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, Calif., and author of 30 books and hundreds of scholarly articles, is no stranger to the art of debate and has taken on some of the great orators, such as famous atheists [[Christopher Hitchens]] and [[Sam Harris]]. Harris once described Craig as “the one Christian apologist who has put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists”.
Responding to Toynbee’s cancellation, Lane Craig commented: "These folks (atheists) can be very brave when they are alone at the podium and there's no one there to challenge them. But one of the great things about these debates is that, it allows both sides to be heard on a level playing field, and for the students in the audience to make up their own minds about where they think the truth lies."<ref name="ReferenceB">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/19/christian-pastor-atheists-debates</ref>}}
On August 19, 2011, the leading British Anglican weekly newspaper the ''Church Times'' wrote:
{{cquote|The director of Professor Craig’s tour, Peter May, said: “If Craig is ‘wrong about everything else in the universe’ and his arguments for the existence of God are so easy to refute, it is hard to see why the leading atheist voices in the country are running shy of having a debate with him.
“Rather than hurling [[Ad hominem|ad hominem]] attacks on Craig from their bunkers, it would be good to see these figures come forward to rationally defend the atheism they publicly espouse.”<ref>http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=116718</ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Atheism and cowardice]]
*[[Atheism and cowardice]]