Vox Day established The PZ Myers Memorial Debate which is titled as such in order to bring attention to the “dedicated to the short-lived, but inglorious debating career of” its namesake. Via this forum he has challenged any atheist do debate his contention which is:
…that there is not only substantial evidence for the existence of gods, but that the logic and the evidence in support of the existence of gods is superior to the logic and the evidence for the nonexistence of them.
As a side note, see The PZ Myers Memorial Debate update I wherein Day notes that that “The first PZ Myers Memorial Debate features Dominic Saltarelli vs Vox Day and concerns the evidence and logic for the existence or nonexistence of gods.” Within the debate, “the first round will be in English, the second round in Italian, and the third round in Latin.”
PZ Myers has, again and again, refused to debate Day—for examples see:
Speaking of Assiduous Absconders…Yet Again, Vox Day Challenges PZ Myers to Debate
PZ Myers Emotively Vociferous but Intellectually Mute
In his post Running, running, Vox Day notes, “After having already announced he will no longer debate Creationists, apparently PZ Myers felt it necessary to explain, yet again, why he will not be debating me at any point now or in the future:”
Who is Vox Day? He’s a recipient of wingnut welfare, a pretentious nobody who had a rich and rotten crook for a father and who writes cheesy fantasy novels in between penning cheesy political discourse. I’m not some bigshot in my field, but I can recognize an ambitious nobody with nothing to offer, so no, I won’t ever be debating that clown.
Well, these are actually some of them nicer statements that PZ Myers has penned about Vox Day, he must be getting soft.
Recently, Vox Day posted on the Questions for evolutionists aspect of the Question Evolution campaign. He rightly notes:
It should be interesting to see the answers to these questions presented by the Question Evolution campaign, assuming of course that an evolutionist who is capable of responding to substantive questions with answers that do not boil down to “you are stupid and ignorant of science to even ask me such a thing” can be found.
Moreover:
It is my contention that evolution is, from a scientific perspective, an almost totally irrelevant sideshow. The number of scientists who have actually used evolution for anything over the last 150 years is dwarfed by the number of scientists who are still desperately trying to provide a scientific foundation for TENS. The only reason evolution is assumed to be of such presumed importance is due to its philosophical usefulness to materialist philosophers and pedopropagandists like Richard Dawkins.
All this background info has lead up to this point: PZ Myers set out to refute Vox Day’s The Irrational Atheist—Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens book but did not even read much of it. He has been challenged by Vox to debate again and again and has refused via personal besmirchments—ad hominems. So now, here is key question:
Will the biologist, PZ Myers, take on the challenge of the Question Evolution campaign and answer the 15 Questions for Evolutionists? Or, will he, yet again, run with tail betwixt legs, continue refusing to engage in reasoned discourse and merely keep on feeding his cult of personality hero worshipers?
We will have to wait and see—wait, and wait, and wait and wait.
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