In my reading of "The God delusion" by Richard Dawkins, I have noticed that he has very little to say about the person of Jesus Christ but mainly concentrates on the evolution versus creation argument to make his case. In the past, I have read books by Christian authors who mainly focus on Christ and seek to prove Christianity via his death and resurrection.
It is hardly surprising that both parties seek to play to their strong points. We have good evidence of on-going evolution and the world is plainly more than a few thousand years old. Equally, Christians can say that the unrisen body of Christ has never been found despite the probablity that the contemporary Roman and Jewish authorities and others would have sought the body in order to disprove and discredit the new faith.
To be fair to Dawkins, he seeks to disprove all religion and not the Christian religion in particular. Equally, Christian authors seek converts to Christianity rather than merely setting out to prove that there is a deity.
Whilst for the purposes of winning a debate, playing to your strong suits and avoiding the issues where you are on weaker ground makes sense, it does little to help seekers of truth resolve their issues.
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