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Craig-Carroll Debate

I missed the opening statements, but watched the rest of the debate live. Based on what I saw, Carroll did as well in his debate with Craig as Shelley Kagan did in his. Off the top of my head, this is the best debate performance I have ever seen by an atheist scientist.

Breaking News: WLC Disses Aquinas

During the Q&A period of tonight’s Craig-Carroll debate on God and cosmology, WLC said this (or something very close to it): “Aquinas’ metaphysical principles are just dubious.” Shhhhh… Don’t tell Ed Feser.

Craig’s Defense of Moral Objectivity in his Moral Argument for God’s Existence

William Lane Craig’s moral argument for God’s existence is as follows. (1) If God does not exist, then objective moral values and duties do not exist. (2) But objective moral values and duties do exist. (3) Therefore, God exists. In defense of (2), Craig offers an appeal to intuition. Here’s an excerpt from one of Craig’s Defense of Moral Objectivity in his Moral Argument for God’s Existence

Bobier’s New Paper on the Kalam Argument: “God, Time, and the Kalam Cosmological Argument”

Christopher Alan Bobier, “God, Time, and the Kalam Cosmological Argument”, Sophia (May 2013). Here’s the abstract: The Kalām cosmological argument deploys the following causal principle: whatever begins to exist has a cause. Yet, under what conditions does something ‘begin to exist’? What does it mean to say that ‘X begins to exist at t’? William Lane Craig has Bobier’s New Paper on the Kalam Argument: “God, Time, and the Kalam Cosmological Argument”

Oxford University Professor Charles Foster Supports a Craig-Lowder Debate

Oxford University Professor Charles Foster is the author of The Jesus Inquest, a very even discussion of the arguments for and against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. Foster discusses the arguments in The Empty Tomb extensively in his book. Foster has stated I would make a worthy debate opponent for WLC.  In his own words: Richard: you mention Oxford University Professor Charles Foster Supports a Craig-Lowder Debate

My 1998 Article: William Lane Craig: Christian Theism’s Hired Gun

On April 3, 1998, Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated Oxford chemist Peter W. Atkins (pictured at right) on the existence of God at the chapel of the Carter Presidential Center in Craig’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. According to one of the Christian organizers of the event, former President Carter had shown interest in introducing My 1998 Article: William Lane Craig: Christian Theism’s Hired Gun