R. Brad White challenged me the other day when I called William Lane Craig (the famous Christian apologist) "devious and dishonest," and I promised to respond.
Dr. Craig's most offensive tactic is that he relies on the ignorance of his audience. He knows they're not trained in philosophy or deductive logic. He knows they're not trained in mathematics. He knows most don't know the Bible's history all that well (they know its contents, but not who wrote it and why) ... and so forth. And Dr. Craig uses his audience's ignorance, knowingly and deliberately. He knows he can confuse his audience with arguments they can't understand.
Dr. Craig counts on the fact that when his opponents prove him wrong, the argument will be too complex for the audience to comprehend.
As Russell "Kazim" Glasser wrote on Atheist Experience:
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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