Atheist Richard Dawkins takes on Archbishop of Canterbury, Science vs God Debate.

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Richard Dawkins went head-to-head with Rowan Williams in a televised debate about evolution. So who won?

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was going head to head in a public debate with the leading secularist Richard Dawkins.

The archbishop and the atheist were going to battle it out in front of a packed house at Oxford University's c.

In the end it was more Thought for the Day than Frost-Nixon or Frazier-Ali. atheism debate.

It began with the air of an upmarket version of boxing at the Albert Hall, when the two contenders were led through the audience into the elegant, rounded amphitheatre of the Sheldonian. religion debate. Richard Dawkins Teaching Evolution to Religious Students.

But it became a rather polite philosophical chess game, with the two opponents testing out each others' well-rehearsed defences.

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