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Human Insignificance

Hi Dr. Craig. I'm a Christian from Canada and I love watching your debates on youtube. Thanks for being so awesome. You are a true inspiration. I'm writing because I'm struggling with some questions that are really challenging my faith. Any guidan...

divine love, divine-human relationship, image of god, naturalism

Does Theism Foster Scepticism?

Dr. Craig I was reading about Plantinga's Argument Against Naturalism, and I've noticed a similar argument among atheist's that holds that theism is also self-refuting. Excuse my rough caricature, but it goes something like this: If a person beli...

alvin plantinga, epistemology, naturalism, skepticism, theism

Is Part of the Universe a Necessary Being?

Christian philosopher C. Stephen Layman suggests in his book 'Letters to Doubting Thomas: A Case for the Existence of God' (OUP, 2007) that the naturalist can escape a Leibnizian-type cosmological argument from contingency by maintaining that "some par...

c. stephen layman, contingency argument, metaphysical necessity, naturalism, origin of the universe, universe

Is Scientism Self-Refuting

Dear Dr. Craig, How would you reply to this argument that scientism is not self-refuting: "Scientism has been always been successful in the past; any supernaturalistic explanations used by our progenitors have been replaced by naturalistic explanations. Neve...

methological naturalism, miracles, naturalism, scientism

Naturalistic Appeal to Ignorance

Dr. Craig, To say that I appreciate your work would be an understatement. I'll spare you a paragraph or two elaborating on that subject but I do want to take the opportunity to express my sincere gratitude both to you and all the people who work behind th...

arguments for the existence of god, atheism, kalam cosmological argument, naturalism

Naturalism, Scientism, Utopianism

naturalism, scientism, utopianism

Hawking and Mlodinow: Philosophical Undertakers

Hi Dr Craig Can you give your response to the following from Stephen Hawking who is quoted from his new book as saying, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is ...

naturalism, ontology, origin of the universe, philosophy, stephen hawking, the grand design

Four Questions to Make your Brain Hurt

Dear Dr Craig, May I begin by thanking you so much for your ministry, and for making so much content freely available. I have learnt much and grown through listening to the Defenders and Reasonable Faith podcasts, and also from the blogs on your website. Thi...

anthropology, epistemology, general philosophy questions, naturalism

Scepticism about the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm

Dr Craig as a fellow Christian but also one with a keen interest in science I was very disappointed by your recent podcast on the doctrine of creation. You seem to express considerable skepticism of macroevolution, which has in fact been frequently observed. M...

creation ex nihilo, darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent design, naturalism

Do We Live in a Post-Modern Society?

In your Christianity Today article you said, However all this may be, some might think that the resurgence of natural theology in our time is merely so much labor lost. For don’t we live in a postmodern culture in which appeals to such apologetic argum...

modernism, naturalism, postmodernism, worldview