One of the most frequent criticisms I receive is that I'm accused of being arrogant, a charge I will not deny. When one becomes extremely confident in the logic of his or her argument, it often comes across as arrogance. And to be brutally honest, I've gotten bored with responding to the average atheist's arguments against God, because they usually aren't very good and don't require a great deal of effort to refute. To those aspiring to become evangelists of atheism (after all, Dr. Richard Carrier offers online courses in "counter apologetics" for atheists) my best advice would be to learn how to think critically -- merely parroting Richard Dawkins, Richard Carrier or Sam Harris won't win the competition for ideas against the likes of John Lennox or William Lane Craig. Or my own arrogant self, for that matter. Quite frankly, the gladiator-style duels with amateur atheists that pass for debate on the internet have become old hat and really don't present much of a challenge for me anymore. They are extremely tedious and very predictable. And after making the same basic argument for the existence of God about a decade now, I've yet to encounter a better argument coming from an atheist trolling the internet. On the other hand, a debate against a serious, well known and well respected nontheist like Michael Shermer could prove to be very interesting and worth the effort for me.  Of course, the first challenge will be to engage Mr. Shermer in dialogue, unless I look for an argument to destroy that he's made in the past. He's got plenty of material available on the … [Read more...]