My wife and I are currently listening to a debate (live) between well known atheist Dan Barker and Christian apologist Dr. James White through www.aomin.org.
Dan Barker just finished his opening statement which more or less left us with the old argument that the account of Jesus was borrowed from mythology. This is not why I am writing this post.
After Barker's opening statement, Dr. White got up to begin his opening statement. As Dr. White always does his homework, his opening statement was full of quotes from Barker's books. One would think that Mr. Barker would be glad to have his works read and quoted, but this was not the case!
Before Dr. White could even finish his first quotation, Barker loudly objected to having his own book quoted! He kept saying, "I may have changed my mind". There was a short spat regarding this and Dr. White (as well as my wife) pointed out that Barker is still selling the books that Dr. White was quoting from. The moderator did not uphold Barker's objection.
If I were an atheist, I would be ashamed of Dan Barker and concerned about his confirmation of the truth of Christianity. His thinking and behavior show that he is clearly just a man who hates God and has no apologetic, which is exactly what the Bible says he is. (Romans 1.20b)
Update: To make matters worse, Barker just quoted from his own book with respect to naturalism and miracles.
Second Update: Dr. White has written about the event here - http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=3514
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I just heard about this over here. Now I can't wait to hear the debate. I hope it is made available.
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