Richard Dawkins is because he won’t debate William Lane Craig.

From here:

Richard Dawkins has made his name as the scourge of organised religion who branded the Roman Catholic Church “evil” and once called the Pope “a leering old villain in a frock”.

But he now stands accused of “cowardice” after refusing four invitations to debate the existence of God with a renowned Christian philosopher.

A war of words has broken out between the best selling author of The God Delusion, and his critics, who see his refusal to take on the American academic, William Lane Craig, as a “glaring” failure and a sign that he may be losing his nerve.

Prof Dawkins maintains that Prof Craig is not a figure worthy of his attention and has reportedly said that such a contest would “look good” on his opponent’s CV but not on his own.

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“I have no intention of assisting Craig in his relentless drive for self-promotion,” he said.

Self-promotion is a completely alien concept to Dawkins, of course; that’s why his web site is not just a shrine to atheism but to the Great Man himself: richarddawkins.net, the “Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science – a Clear Thinking Oasis”.

Not sufficiently clear thinking to take on William Lane Craig, though.