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William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
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RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
(February 8, 2015 at 4:36 pm)Esquilax Wrote: "Math is good at describing things, therefore god!"

William Lane Craig Wrote:It was very evident to me that [naturalists are not] able to provide any sort of an explanation of mathematics’ applicability to the physical world.…

The theist has explanatory resources that are not available to the rationalist.

Get back to me when your god can launch a probe that visits Jupiter, Saturn, Uranis, and Neptune in four decades and leaves photos as evidence.

Protip: he couldn't even do that with his own son.

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RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
(February 8, 2015 at 5:09 pm)Esquilax Wrote:
(February 8, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Alex K Wrote: Does he still have his fans run around the internet claiming that he is an unbeatable debater who has crushed all atheists who dared confront him?

We had one of those here late last year, in His_Majesty, remember? Then again, that guy was also a Kent Hovind fan, so that might just be down to low standards.

I chose to forget. But yeah that's low standards. Comparing Kent Hovind to WLC, that's like comparing a fake Seiko to a fake Rolex.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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#23
RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
(February 8, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Alex K Wrote: Does he still have his fans run around the internet claiming that he is an unbeatable debater who has crushed all atheists who dared confront him?

To be fair, he is a very good debater. The only atheist I know who I would say overpowered him with both good rhetoric and logic is Shelly Kagan.

I think Jeffrey Jay Lowder could own him as well in a debate.
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RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
(February 9, 2015 at 3:54 am)Irrational Wrote:
(February 8, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Alex K Wrote: Does he still have his fans run around the internet claiming that he is an unbeatable debater who has crushed all atheists who dared confront him?

To be fair, he is a very good debater. The only atheist I know who I would say overpowered him with both good rhetoric and logic is Shelly Kagan.

I might just have different standards what makes a good debater then. When listening to Craig debating theism, every other thing he utters jumps in my face as an equivocation, misrepresentation of physics and other science, or simply wrong. If being a good debater means packaging dishonesty in an efficient form such that it can sway superficial audiences, then he is a good debater.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
(February 9, 2015 at 3:58 am)Alex K Wrote:
(February 9, 2015 at 3:54 am)Irrational Wrote: To be fair, he is a very good debater. The only atheist I know who I would say overpowered him with both good rhetoric and logic is Shelly Kagan.

I might just have different standards what makes a good debater then. When listening to Craig debating theism, every other thing he utters jumps in my face as an equivocation, misrepresentation of physics and other science, or simply wrong. If being a good debater means packaging dishonesty in an efficient form such that it can sway superficial audiences, then he is a good debater.

Rhetoric over logic is what the mainstream debates you see in the media are about.

Academic debates are a different story.
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RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
I rate this guy as the most dishonest of the bunch. And he's got some stiff competition.

It really is sickening that people can make a living out of this kind of thing.
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RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
(February 9, 2015 at 4:08 am)Irrational Wrote: Rhetoric over logic is what the mainstream debates you see in the media are about.

I don't even want to waste my time thinking about this kind of exercise. What a waste of public attention.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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#28
RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
It's the difference between trying to have a meaningful debate and trying to "win" it by any kind of low tactics, in the eyes of theist observers.
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#29
RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
William Lane Craig Wrote:The theist has explanatory resources that are not available to the rationalist.
This is incorrect; the rationalist also has an ass. He simply does not avail himself of this source of "explanatory resources."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
(February 8, 2015 at 4:36 pm)Esquilax Wrote:
Quote:It was very evident to me that [naturalists are not] able to provide any sort of an explanation of mathematics’ applicability to the physical world.…

The theist has explanatory resources that are not available to the rationalist.

WLC admits that to be a theist, one cannot also be rational.

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