While I'm on the topic of disputations, I should ask: when was the last time a university had a true disputation between members of its faculty or between graduate students? Not that the university is equipped to teach logic, which many of its faculty lack. Instead of disputations, we get discussion through printed materials. A practice related to the polemics during the Reformation period? It may be necessary under extraordinary circumstances, but it is certainly not an effective way of resolving the matter.

Materialists and naturalists have no problem claiming that others are wrong. But if an audience has very little familiarity with logic, can they be persuaded that those who are in error are so?