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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,

Misunderstandings About God and the Big Bang

Pruss on Forming an Actual Infinite by Successive Addition

Alexander Pruss has suggested a counterexample to a priori arguments for the finite age of the universe on his blog. An Alpha-widget (AW) spends a year playing the violin, and then make a copy of themselves. Each AW takes only half the time to make a copy of ...

infinity, kalam cosmological argument, natural theology, alexander pruss,

Muslim Appreciation of the Kalam Argument

Dear Dr. Craig; I sincerely hope and pray this letter reaches you. I am not a Christian; I am a Muslim. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled onto a Christian philosopher who respects and utilizes Imam Al-Ghazzali in his brilliant discussion and rebuttal of pro...

kalam cosmological argument, origin of the universe, time, muslim concept of god, islam,

Does Divine Creation Imply a Beginning?

Dear Dr. Craig: I am a lay argentine theologian with a PhD from the “Universidad Católica Argentina” (with a thesis on the interaction between scientific cosmology and eschatology), as well as a scientific programmer at the National Atomic ...

Questions That Keep You Up at Night

kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, moral argument,

ChatGPT Strikes Out Big Time!

I need some answers for these fallacies that God is the first cause. I just ran your argument through ChatGPT to check for the logical fallacies you've committed and you've actually committed 6 of them. Here's the list. The argument that a god is...

arguments for the existence of god, kalam cosmological argument, logic, logical fallacy, irrational objections, objections, reason,

Questions on Skepticism, Consequentialism, and Causality

Fact-Checking the Fact-Checker of the Craig-Rosenberg Debate

The Indiana University Philosophical Society has put on their blog what they are calling a fact check of your debate with Dr. Rosenberg (http://iuphilosophy.com/2013/02/18/fact-checking-the-craigrosenberg-debate/). It was an interesting read, and you came out...

bgv theorem, causation, immateriality, kalam cosmological argument, alex rosenberg, debates,

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 8): The Kalam Cosmological Argument

kalam cosmological argument, natural theology, arguments for the existence of god,