The William Lane Craig Debates

[LegionOnomaMoi]

It is important to understand that W. L. Craig presents arguments in one way to popular audiences (i.e., inaccurate, overly-simplistic, and/or obviously wrong) and another in his scholarship. He even wrote a technical critique of the physicists he has relied on in popular works to promote the popular version of his kalam argument and others he uses to reach the same conclusion. He's simply dishonest, and I've seen the results of this here when those relying on his popular presentations (spoken or written) find themselves confronting the actual logic and reasoning he uses when addressing any audience whom he knows won't buy such simplistic drivel.

 

[dust1n]

Is there a way of evaluating epistemologies to show that one is superior?

For example, could a person use Craig's epistemology to prove something is true that everybody would acknowledge as absurd?

I would, yes.

 

[The Transcended Omniverse]

So if we can use the same method Craig has used to make other things and other imaginary things seem just as or even more true than the existence of God, then of all the random ideas that could be made seemingly true, then why God? What makes the existence of God so special to Craig out of all those other random ideas? Surely he is not dense enough to think that it is because he just really likes the idea of God's existence, it brings him comfort, and just from the fact that he has faith in God. Surely there must be a better reason for his faith in God that he can or has already explained.

 

[McBell]

So if we can use the same method Craig has used to make other things and other imaginary things seem just as or even more true than the existence of God, then of all the random ideas that could be made seemingly true, then why God? What makes the existence of God so special to Craig out of all those other random ideas? Surely he is not dense enough to think that it is because he just really likes the idea of God's existence, it brings him comfort, and just from the fact that he has faith in God. Surely there must be a better reason for his faith in God that he can or has already explained.

Many people already agree with him, thus he is merely catering to the choir.

 

[The Transcended Omniverse]

Many people already agree with him, thus he is merely catering to the choir.

But does Craig have a personal conviction of God and that he is not just simply catering to the audience? That is what my post was talking about.