Blogger bashing

The ABC blog of the Atheist Convention has generated lots of interest and some 500 comments in the last few days. Most of the comments are vigorously anti-theistic, some amount to blogger bashing. Maybe 5% or less are from believers of one sort or another. Most of the arguments are neither new nor terribly well thought through.

Why did I take it on? Firstly to help make the idea of debate credible, because some atheists would like it to be a non-debate along the lines of, 'there's no proof for God so there's nothing to discuss.'

Secondly, I wanted to try and offer a serious and orthodox Christian response, because many atheists seem to think that such people (serious and orthodox Christians) don't exist. 

Finally, I hoped to couch the language in terms of belief and commitment, because many atheists say they don't have beliefs (at least about the God question). On that last point I wrote a post called Credo which tacitly makes it clear that atheists too have their set of beliefs.

The blog will go for another week or so...