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Is the World a Brute Contingent?

In your dialogue with Dr. Graham Oppy, he brought up an interesting concern to which you did not have time to adequately respond to. I will reproduce his question here. Dr. Oppy: "Could God have freely chosen to make a physical world in which it was not the ...

agent causation, atheism, divine will, explanatory power, leibnizian cosmological argument, mathematics, applicability of

Theological Non-Cognitivism

Hello! I just encountered today a form of non-theism called "theological non-cognitivism" which, if I'm not mistaken, basically states that religious concepts like God are meaningless. This is of course a very different perspective from the atheism I'm...

non-cognitivism, non-theism, philosophy of religion, positivism, self-refuting, theism

Serious Atheist Philosophy: Then and Now

Dear Dr. Craig I'm a Non-Christian that respects your work and scholarship. I'm writing today to ask you to perhaps give a brief overview and your own perspective of the Atheist side of the Philosophy of Religion. Some of my favorite articles and wri...

atheism, christian philosophy, naturalism, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion, skepticism

Draper’s Anti-Theistic Argument

Hey Dr. Craig, thank you for all your work in apologetics. You've played a huge role in helping me maintain my faith. I'm convinced that both the evidential and logical problem of evil doesn't work but Paul Draper has put forward a stronger formula...

draper, paul, evil, problem of, explanatory power, naturalism, theism

Explaining the Applicability of Mathematics

In the debate on the mathematical argument for God hosted by “Capturing Christianity,” and at 1:12:00 into the debate, Dr. Oppy asked Dr. Craig this question: “Could God have freely chosen to make a physical world in which it was not the ca...

abstract objects, explanatory power, fine tuning argument, graham oppy, kalam cosmological argument, methodological naturalism

Are We Justified in Inferring Jesus’ Resurrection?

Dear Dr. Craig, I am an earnest seeker. I have become convinced by philosophers like Thomas Nagel, Edward Feser, John Searle, and Raymond Tallis, that the mainstream materialistic-cum-mechanistic understanding of the world is false (oddly enough, most of thes...

agnosticism, belief in god, miracles, philosophical materialism, postmortem appearances, resurrection

Peter Atterton on the Coherence of Theism

Peter Atterton from San Deigo State University wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times claiming that the God of western civilization is incoherent and I find most of his arguments to be severely flawed. The article is called "A God Problem" One argument ...

apatheism, concept of god, natural evil, omnipotence, omniscience, peter atterton

Dialogue with Jordan Peterson

Hi Dr. Craig I recently watched your discussion with Rebecca Goldstein and Dr. Jordan Peterson at Wyckliffe university, and noticed a discrepancy between your view of meaning (specifically, significance) and Dr. Petersons. Unfortunately this wasn't discus...

atheism, bertrand russell, friedrich nietzsche, immortality, jean-paul sartre, jordan peterson

Does God Exist?

Three and a half thousand people gathered in the Elliott Hall of Music on the campus of Purdue University to witness this intellectual collision of two major competing worldviews in American culture: Atheism and Theism. This is the entire debate (including int...

atheism, austin dacey, debates, does god exist, theism

The Concept of God in Islam and Christianity

islam, philosophy, theism