William Lane Craig is a strong candidate for the greatest living proponent of natural theology. But that’s because serious philosophers have almost entirely abandoned natural theology. A guide to Craig’s track record of dishonesty and fundamentalist lunacy.
An index of why William Lane Craig is a dishonest genocide-defending creepy homophobe
May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Lots of people are awful, but not everyone who disagrees with you is
April 12, 2013 By 68 Comments
The two main impetuses for this post are both already old news in the blogosphere’s short news cycle, but I think the issue is important, so here it goes:
Reply to a reader having a crisis of faith
April 8, 2013 By 20 Comments
A reader having a crisis of faith sent me an e-mail describing his situation; with permission I’m posting excerpts from it with my responses:
Craig: gay marriage is “really odd” because “homosexuals typically don’t have lasting partnerships”
March 27, 2013 By 30 Comments
Dear William Lane Craig: fuck you you fucking fuck.
Lee Strobel’s The Case for Faith is really a great book to read if you’re just getting into atheist/Christian debates
March 26, 2013 By 12 Comments
I feel odd saying this, but another thing I remembered when thinking about how Martin Luther was made out to be a hero when I was in school is where I did learn about Luther’s antisemitism from: Lee Strobel’s book The Case for Faith.
Doug Krueger on Craig’s “PhDs only” rule
March 12, 2013 By 1 Comment
Doug Krueger, who’s been offering to debate Craig for years, showed up in the comments on my post on William Lane Craig’s refusal to debate Jeff Lowder to offer up some additional tidbits:
The Old Testament and Christian apologetics, part 1: some types of apologists
March 4, 2013 By 10 Comments
This post has its roots in a comment thread on Yvain’s blog, the OP of which I discussed here. But it’s not the post itself that prompted this blog post, but rather when I said:
The hypocrisy of William Lane Craig’s refusal to debate Jeffery Jay Lowder
March 1, 2013 By 16 Comments
Jeff Lowder sent me an e-mail asking me to comment on William Lane Craig’s “apparent hypocrisy” (Jeff’s words) in refusing to do a debate with him. Jeff included a link to a post on this he put up last July, which has some interesting tidbits:
William Lane Craig claims its “dishonest” to say the OT god is a moral monster
February 20, 2013 By 18 Comments
The other day I noticed a blog post where Randal Rauser partially transcribes one of William Lane Craig’s podcasts. Here’s Craig:
William Lane Craig: young-earth creationism is an embarrassment
February 17, 2013 By 80 Comments
I’ve had difficulty finding any straightforward statements from William Lane Craig on evolution and creationism. Often, he hedges by throwing a few subtle encouragements to his anti-evolution fans while avoiding saying anything that would identify him. But in a recent podcast, he was very frank about young-earth creationism:
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