Richard Dawkins has posted the audio of a conversation between himself and John Lennox. It's an easy listen because Lennox is not your usual firebrand Christian who explodes after the third question. They are both fairly soft spoken.
Lennox dominates most of the time in the conversation, unfortunately, with long winded answers to Dawkins simple questions. All of Lennox's answers boil down to common theologic defense; I'm right because I'm right. Once a person of faith genuinely internalizes that they could be wrong, it's a very quick and slippery slope to atheism. So the last line of defense is; I'm right because I have to be right.
Clearly Lennox has done a lot of reading. Which is why his answers are longer than the usual responses. Your usual pew-trained Christian only understand concepts at a micron thin level because they have been yelled at until they can repeat the arguments rote. That's why, when you question them they can only get so far before they get defensive with they lack of knowledge and fall back on either, "You would have to ask the pastor about that" or "I'm right because I can't be wrong".
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