(February 6, 2014 at 6:31 pm)FreeTony Wrote: No, you're not, don't worry. Trying to get ideas across on a forum is quite tricky - this is probably what leads to so many arguments.
Isn't WLC meant to be the number one apologist? I've no idea, I just got that impression, but I don't think I'd even heard of Apologists until recently.
Their number one debater, sure but as an apologist strictly, no. They've much better than he in academia such as Alvin Plantinga and Richard Swinburne. Craig comes in near 15th, which I believe is based on citations. Not bad, but I'm not sure how large the field is to say if that's good on Craig's part.
But as I say, the view of Craig I tend to hear from philosophers who learn of his existence and hear his arguments is that he's seen as a very lawyer-ish type, and no in a good way. In particular is his effectively zero change in his arguments over a longer time period that I've been alive (barring any perceived benefit to his side).
