PSA: RationalWiki -- William Lane Craig

[Angrboda]

I remember an exchange I had with Steve last time on the KCA when he brought up the supposed "illogicalness" of infinity minus infinity yielding varying answers, and he didn't seem to understand how mathematical indeterminacy does not equate to logical contradiction. It's funny because 0/0 is also indeterminate, so does this mean an actual zero of something is not possible? And "finity - finity" is also indeterminate, lol (though this one is not something you normally see in mathematics, if at all).

By the way, I think WLC is just incredibly biased when it comes to the matter of the truth of Christianity. I don't think he's a conscious lying con-man, just a really smart guy who has successfully been able to cope effectively with the cognitive dissonance going on in his mind because of the absurdity of his beliefs (and who has nothing to gain by ditching the faith anyway).

Maybe, but he's had plenty of opportunity to learn otherwise. That's willful, and justifies condemnation on moral grounds.

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In a way, the cited article makes a weird kind of sense for Craig:  he depends on discredited mathematics as a way of supporting his discredited cosmology.  In formal philosophical terms, this is know as 'circular bullshittery'.

Boru

Oh! It's worse than just his laughable Kalam Cosmological Argument and and shitty math. A couple of years ago I was into the atheist/theist debate and learned a lot about W.L.C.. 

He takes advantage of debate rules, well rehearsed talking points, and time limits to Gish Gallop his way through his presentations. Literally everything he says on stage sounds reasonable to people who don't know better, but he slings so much of his bullshit during his presentations that his opponents can't even begin to refute it all in their allotted time. He also likes to redirect questions by saying things like "Rather than "X = this", I think "Y = that"  is a better way to illustrate "Z = something that was never asked".

He's crooked in the same way a politician is, he may not be transparently engaging in shady conduct, but it's hard to explain it as anything but intentional.