(February 21, 2016 at 4:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Ben Carson has a medical degree and he denies evolution.

Ben Carson is the classic example of the smart idiot. By all accounts he's a brillant doctor. But he's stupid as fuck in every other field.

You don't need much math to communicate with people and I'd say he is making use of his communications degree. Selling bullshit to the gullible, sure, but a man has to make a living.

Besides, his lack of math skills have no bearing on the weight of his arguments, that have been refuted to no end, yes, but by their weak support, not because of WLC's math skills.

(February 21, 2016 at 1:11 pm)Alex K Wrote: Ok. Why is this interesting?

He writes on Big Bang cosmology and critiques world-class cosmologists, and yet, by all appearances, the man has never completed Calculus I.  WLC is a pathetic joke, likely, a lying charlatan who is laughing his way to the bank.

(February 21, 2016 at 4:27 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(February 21, 2016 at 1:11 pm)Alex K Wrote: Ok. Why is this interesting?

He writes on Big Bang cosmology and critiques world-class cosmologists, and yet, by all appearances, the man has never completed Calculus I.  WLC is a pathetic joke, likely, a lying charlatan who is laughing his way to the bank.

In order to critique big bang cosmology on a technical level without relying heavily on outside sources, you need more than some maths in college. You need to be a full blown researcher active in the field, so whether he completed calculus or not doesn't make much of a difference from that perspective.

He does try to use advanced cosmological arguments e.g. by citing the Borde,Guth,Vilenkin theorem on initial singularities. When asked, they themselves said that the theorem doesn't say what WLC would like it to say. He still continued making the same argument apparently. The guy has zero intellectual integrity and no respect for knowledge, he could have two phds in cosmology and still be a fraud.

(February 21, 2016 at 3:59 pm)abaris Wrote: Well, somehow the point got lost on the way. At least it's lost on me.

What does William Lane Craig not having math since school to do with anything?

If you watch the debate he did on the historicity of the resurrection, where he was debating a historian, he goes into a mathematical theorem and shows that he needed more math education if he wants to bring his argument to the table.

@Nihilist Virus

Sounds funny, do you remember which one that was?

(February 21, 2016 at 11:52 pm)Alex K Wrote: @Nihilist Virus

Sounds funny, do you remember which one that was?

Yeah, it was Slick Willy vs Bart Ehrman.

Grab some popcorn and the lolometer.

Bart "Jesus was real" Ehrman, of all people! Would have thought they'd get along

In WLC's defense, he is a slimy worthless intellectually bankrupt exploiter of ignorance.

I never did finish my law degree.

Considering him, I expected it to be in kindergarten.