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William Lane Craig - "Consequentialism is a terrible ethic" - could he be more incoherent?

Craig has been involved in a series of discussions in Australia with Laurence Krauss regarding philosophy and science. Unfortunately, Krauss is no great philosopher which is what most of this discussion revolved around. However, both Craig and the annoying moderator claimed the "consequentialism is

Before the Big Bang - Loop Quantum Cosmology Explained

I love Skydivephil. He/She/They have had some properly good ding-dongs with our favourite apologist, William Lane Craig, most recently on the topic of animal suffering which I featured here. I have not had a chance to watch this,. being on hols, but look forward to it on my

Guest Post by The Thinker - A Short Look At William Lane Craig's "Refutations" Of The B-Theory Of Time

Over at the website Closer To Truth, which is a site about an agnostic who goes around interviewing philosophers and scientists to try to find answers to the biggest and deepest mysteries of the meaning of existence and the universe, there is a profile of William Lane Craig. In it, they summarize hi

Craig and the Kalam (and relativity): Vincent Torley vs Counter Apologist... CA wins.

So in my post, the Part 2 of why Vincent Torley is a Christian, Vincent called into question some of Counter Apologist's work undermining William Lane Craig's use of science and metaphysics to try to show that the A-Theory of time is true or that the B-Theory is false. Craig's case is this:

The unfalsifiability of William Lane Craig - a reminder

Just in case you haven't seen this old chestnut, or in case you had forgotten its supremely annoying rational defeater, watch again: http://youtu.be/S-fDyPU3wlQ

2 counter-apologetics segments available!

Two episodes of Skepticule have become available with my counter-apologetics segment, called Pearced Off. The first episode (44) features my piece on free will as an incoherent gift from God, which can be found here. My segment starts at 29.10.

An index of why William Lane Craig is a dishonest genocide-defending creepy homophobe

Chris Hallquist's blog The Incredible Halq is the first reputable blog that I have seen which has so seriously gone to town on apologist William Lane Craig. Check it out here. I mean proper gone to town. I advise anyone with a passing knowledge in WLC to check

Philosophy 101 (philpapers induced) #2 - Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism

So having posted the Philpapers survey results, the biggest ever survey of philosophers conducted in 2009, several readers were not aware of it (the reason for re-communicating it) and were unsure as to what some of the questions meant. I offered to do a series on them, so here it is – Philosophy 10

BOOM! - Craig is, um, owned on animal suffering. Twice.

If you, like me, were at the Stephen Law vs William Lane Craig debate, your jaw will have dropped when Craig, in defence of God vis-a-vis animal suffering and the problem of evil, claimed that animals don't suffer pain. He claimed that most animals didn't have the conscious awareness of pain that

AAAARRGGGHHH! William Lane Craig does it again. The school massacre sends the message that God provides hope for us...

Oh my cosmos, he does it again. William Lane Craig has moved from the Slaughter of the Canaanites to trying to make sense of the massacre in Connecticut in the context of Christmas. Get ready to scream at the computer screen.

Stephen Law vs William Lane Craig Part 3

So, on to the rebuttals. Craig pointed out in several of his rebuttals that Law has not, and did not seem to want to, critique the cosmological argument. Craig does have some beef here as Law seemed to want to debate Craig’s version of God rather than the more fundamental argument over A God’s exist

Stephen Law vs William Lane Craig Part 2

Stephen Law vs William Lane Craig Part 2

So, on to Law’s opening statements. It’s probably better to get this from the horse’s mouth -http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2011/10/opening-speech-craig-debate.html. However, I will duly sum up. Law, much to his credit, claimed he was only interested in defending his position using only one argument

Stephen Law vs William Lane Craig Debate Review Part 1

Stephen Law vs William Lane Craig Debate Review Part 1

Back in October 2011 I posted this review (and a couple of follow-ons) on my old-old site covering the debate between Stephen Law and William Lane Craig. Due to the fact that Stephen is now a co-SINner here with us, I would like to resurrect this review. It was a great debate, and Stephen, against a

Hell defeated, God creating this world defeated; Bradley vs William Lane Craig

This is taken from an old post of mine. I still find it a real defeater for the concept of hell. I have just listened to Ray Bradley debate William Lane Craig. I heard this several years ago but didn't really pay it close attention. This time round

The Kalam Cosmological Argument and William Lane Craig #2

Having looked at the issue of causality in the last post, I would like to continue to analyse the first premise in the KCA. This objection is connected to the last objection in its implications on the KCA. To remind people of the KCA: 1) The universe that begins to

The Kalam Cosmological Argument and William Lane Craig #1

I have, over the years, been a keen objector to the Kalam Cosmological Argument, an argument that apologists like William Lane Craig use to posit the existence of a creator god for the universe. It is a simple logical syllogism. I am at present writing a paper which states a