(March 18, 2017 at 9:38 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(March 17, 2017 at 12:50 pm)SteveII Wrote: I've heard you and others make this claim before. Do you have a link to anything published by a philosopher of any renown that would support your opinion? Of course I am not talking about a respectful difference of opinion on a topic--I'm talking about mirroring your general characterization of him as not being a serious philosopher.
Anyone with more than 2 brain cells who has heard Bill Creg enough in debates and the fallacious arguments he makes knows he's obviously shit at philosophy.
All he's good at is making so many logical fallacies for his opponents to clear up that they don't have much time to make their own counter argument after they've corrected all his stupid bullshit.... as proper formal debates are on a timer.
Fucking ridiculous really. I think obvious logical fallacies should stop the timer and receive a warning from the moderator. If you're gonna engage in a serious debate at least don't spend all your time making your opponent clear up your equivocations and other bullshit. At least have a position worth arguing against.
I don't even know that Bill took very many philosophy courses in his PhD program; his PhD advisor was Professor John Hick, who was in the department of theology. He has 2 Master's degrees (basically, in the same area) from an evangelical seminary, and there's his communications BA from Wheaton.
