What do you think of William Lane Craig?

[Pat Mustard]

I've watched most, if not all, of his debates, and read many of his papers and books. I doubt many (any?) here can say that.

He's far better than most here want to give him credit for, and I suspect the vitriol directed at him is the direct result of their unspoken recognition of his knowledge and skill as a Christian apologist.

Face it, if he weren't so damned good at what he does, none of the people hurling insults at him in this thread would have even heard of him. Clearly, Krauss, Hitchens and others considered him a worthy adversary...or they never would have taken the stage with him. A bit of respect, however begrudgingly given, is due.

And make no mistake, Craig and others like him are actively arming a generation of believers with the arguments and answers needed for battle. So, while the clarion calls of Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens may have stirred their followers to arms, they were also heard by other watchmen on the walls who have sounded their own alarms. A sleeping giant has been roused from slumber. 

The tide is beginning to turn.

The problen with your supposition is that it doesn't hold water. The only "arguments"Craig offres in favour of his theistic worldview are 1) quote mines misrepresenting the ideas of others, 2) old Catholic-Platonic ideas which were debunked over a thousand years ago and 3) gross and deliberate misrepresentation of modern scientific theories (we know they're deliberate misrepresentations because he uses them even after being corrected by those who came up with them, often to his face).

If you thinkvthis mendacious, malicious, meandering miscreant is provung your delusions you're thicker than I previously thought (and that is hard to do, as I thought there were dead goldfish out there cleverer than you). Of coyrse if you had read his words critically and listened to even one of his debates with non-apologists, you'd have known this yourself, so not alone are you too dumb to live you're a liar to boot.