re: #35 Charles Johnson

“When the debate is with someone like a Young Earth creationist, as the late Stephen Gould pointed out - they’ve won the moment you agree to have a debate at all. Because what they want is the oxygen of respectability.

They want to be seen on a platform with a real scientist, because that conveys the idea that here is a genuine argument between scientists. They may not win the argument - in fact, they will not win the argument, but it makes it look like there really is an argument to be had.” - Richard Dawkins