On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the most retarded), how retarded is William Lane Craig?
I mean, Ive watched him in many debates, how he ducks and weaves so cunningly out of everything thrown at him and is completely blinkered by his opponents and I just wondered to myself earlier.....am I the only one who finds him completely and utterly retarded or do other non believers see it to?
He takes forever to say NOTHING? GRRRRRRRRR....hes so f***ing irritating!!!
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Permalink Reply by Richard Raymond on -
William Lane Craig is not only a devout Christian he is also a very smart scientist. (Genome Project). He like so many Christians and all other religionists has been "INDOCTRINATED" . There are over 38,000 different sects of Christianity. He has just been raised in a culture that swallows the bullshit of that sect. Mind you, I'm surprised he hasn't been able to adopt his scientific critical thinking skills to his retarded religion. Either that, or like so many Christians, he just does not want to admit to being an atheist. Hopefully he will eventually come to his senses and come out of the "Dark Ages." But, I doubt it!
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Permalink Reply by Michael on -
"William Lane Craig is not only a devout Christian he is also a very smart scientist. (Genome Project)."
You're thinking of Francis Collins, who's a geneticist. William Lane Craig is a theologian, and certainly no scientist. That said, Collins also clearly has great cognitive dissonance going on. I doubt that he's "really" atheist though. Unfortunately as Michael Shermer said: "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons." That about sums it up.
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Permalink Reply by kOrsan on -
WC is not a scientist. He is a philosophical theologian, which means he has no degree in any actual field. I also request everybody to please shorten his name as WC instead of WLC, thank you.
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Permalink Reply by John Major on -
He is a little smug but maybe it's because he is so good. I can't work out why he well rehearsed and oft repeated arguments aren't better challenged by opponents. Like him or not, he is very bright IMO.
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Permalink Reply by Dustin on -
Craig is one of those intelligent idiot types. He is profoundly irrational but also quite cunning / sly / well versed in the ways of confusing people with big words and talking about things using "scientific support" that 99% of the audience has no clue what he's saying but it sounds so impressive they just go 'ooooohhhhh, aaaahhhhhh' and have their biases confirmed.
So It really depends on what you mean by 'retarded'.
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Permalink Reply by Dale Headley on -
I applaud Professor Dawkins for refusing to debate Craig, who doesn’t deserve to be given the respect it would implicitly give him. Of course, Dawkins’ reason is that Craig explicitly endorses all the most horrific, genocidal depravities of God and his followers throughout the Pentateuch and elsewhere in the Old Testament. Craig is not just retarded; he is demented.
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Permalink Reply by Ed on -
Perhaps use of the word "retard" has a different meaning among the younger generations. According to Webster's Dictionary it refers to someone, from a medical standpoint, who is slow or limited in intellectual or emotional development.
I would argue that Doctor Craig does not meet that criteria. He is a very crafty individual who astutely disembowels most of those who choose to debate him. That does not imply that the content of his material has any validity, rather than he is an expert at audience perception and the ability to offer what appears to be plausible arguments on the surface but which fail when placed under scientific scrutiny.
We atheists have a problem with his kind. He is no pushover and we should respect his debating skills even though his arguments are flawed .
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on -
Actually, I was being tongue-in-cheek. I don't have a problem with using the word "retard" in a deprecating manner. I understand that people concerned with actual mentally-challenged people don't like the term applied to those people and I understand why. But if someone who should know better is acting dumb, I have no problem with using "retard."
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