cwald wrote:It's a daunting task to defend the indefensible.
This.
In Early March 2006, Daniel C. Peterson was challenged to a debate concerning Mormonism with Bob McCue and Steve Benson. Daniel tucked his tail and ran. Daniel had previously stated that no Ex-Mormon was willing to challenge him. The reason Daniel did not want to debate? Bob was "dismissed as insufficiently credentialed; unprincipled in various ways and hence likely to waste his time in debate; unworthy of his special attention in part because I have shown unscholarly tendencies in Internet postings" ( See http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_bobm ... _401795810 )
Smith - or any of them - would never agree to an open debate.