I know I am necroposting but I couldn't stop thinking about this, which is that there is a fatal flaw in Craig's claim.
He claims that you can prove the negative and as an example he says "There are no married bachelors", but a "married bachelor" is an oxymoron, not a negative. Disproving a negative is not the same as disproving an oxymoron.
So, yet again, Craig is not just wrong, but also deceiving.
He claims that you can prove the negative and as an example he says "There are no married bachelors", but a "married bachelor" is an oxymoron, not a negative. Disproving a negative is not the same as disproving an oxymoron.
So, yet again, Craig is not just wrong, but also deceiving.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
