Special guest debate idea

Post by **otseng** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:04 pm

What do you think of having special guest debates?

I'm thinking of inviting people who are not members of the forum and to participate in a one-on-one debate with each other. It'd be a formal debate format and only for a limited time (perhaps around a week or two at most). Each side would post an opening post and they'd rebute each other for 4-5 turns. Then each would give a concluding post.

Who do you think we should invite to participate (and with a reasonable chance of them accepting)?

What topics would you like to see debated?

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:56 am

I think that it is a great idea. The difficulty would be in finding interesting and informed outsiders willing to participate. It might be difficult to convince any that it would be worth their time. For participants, you may wish to poll the faculty at some Christian apologetic teaching institution for one side and skeptical and/or atheist organizations for the other.

We already have a rich treasure of suitable topics. Why not craft a topic from among the recent years' Best Debate award winners?

AquinasD · Post by **AquinasD** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:08 pm

John Loftus vs. Victor Reppert.

DiscipleOfTruth · Post by **DiscipleOfTruth** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:35 pm

Excellent idea, whatever it takes to get more people, it's nice to hear from someone unfamiliar every once and a while.

And I agree that it would be nice to be able to talk with them as well.

His Name Is John · Post by **His Name Is John** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:04 am

That would be extremely interesting.

Also why not have more one-on-one debates, and competitions etc. find some of the best new debaters and pit them against the debaters on this site everyone knows and respects.

That would be very interesting indeed.