- God
As outlined by William Lane Craig:
- Argument from Abstract Objects
The leading apologist has abandoned premise 1. William Lane Craig's God Over All (2016) argues at book length that abstract objects do not exist, precisely because a realm of uncreated necessary entities would compromise God's aseity. If t…
- Argument from Contingency
This is the third of Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways (Summa Theologica, I, q.2, a.3), the argument from possibility and necessity, in the form later given to it by Leibniz. Premise 1 is Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason. The modern apolo…
- Argument from Mathematical Intelligibility
Built on Eugene Wigner's 1960 essay "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences", and used by William Lane Craig and John Lennox:
- Argument from Meaning and Purpose
William Lane Craig's "The Absurdity of Life Without God" (Reasonable Faith, ch. 2), heard also from Tim Keller and Jordan B Peterson:
- Criterion of Embarrassment Argument
The argument is a staple of William Lane Craig's and Gary Habermas's "minimal facts" case.
- Experiential Argument
William Lane Craig goes further and argues that the "inner witness of the Holy Spirit" is self-authenticating, and that it would be rational to retain belief even in the face of contrary evidence.
- Fine-Tuning Argument
As stated by Robin Collins and William Lane Craig:
- Historical evidence of the Resurrection of Jesus
The "minimal facts" argument (Gary Habermas, Michael Licona; used by William Lane Craig):
- Kalam Cosmological Argument
William Lane Craig then argues further (not as part of the formal syllogism) that the cause of the universe must be:
- Moral Argument - Argument from Objective moral values
As stated by William Lane Craig:
- Ontological Argument
Alvin Plantinga's modal version (1974), which William Lane Craig prefers:
- Religious Apologetics
William Lane Craig, Frank Turek, John Lennox, Dinesh D'Souza, Thomas Aquinas, Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, Edward Feser
- Teleological Argument - Argument from Design
The modern "fine-tuning" version (William Lane Craig, Robin Collins):
- Euthyphro dilemma
The standard apologetic reply (William Lane Craig) is that goodness is grounded in God's nature rather than his commands. This relocates the dilemma rather than escaping it: is God's nature good because it is God's, or because it meets som…
- Does God Exist William Lane Craig vs Christopher Hitchens - Full Debate HD
Christopher Hitchens vs William Lane Craig
- The God Debate II - Harris vs. Craig
Sam Harris vs William Lane Craig
- al-Ghazali
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (c. 1058–1111), Persian theologian, jurist, and mystic, one of the most influential thinkers in Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers attacked the Aristotelian doctrine of an eternal universe and argued that the w…
- Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American analytic philosopher, the most respected Christian philosopher of the late twentieth century. Author of the modal Ontological Argument (1974), of "Reformed epistemology" (the claim that belief in God c…
- Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), Anglo-American journalist, polemicist and one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism. God Is Not Great is the case against religion as a moral institution; his debates with William Lane Craig, Dinesh D'Souz…
- J. P. Moreland
James Porter Moreland (born 1948) is an American evangelical philosopher at Biola University's Talbot School of Theology and co-editor, with William Lane Craig, of The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (2009). Consciousness and the E…
- Sean Carroll
Sean M. Carroll (born 1966), American theoretical physicist and philosopher, now at Johns Hopkins, author of The Big Picture (2016) and host of the Mindscape podcast. Debated William Lane Craig at the Greer-Heard Forum in 2014, where he ar…
- Hilbert's Hotel
William Lane Craig uses the hotel in the Kalam Cosmological Argument to argue that an actual infinite cannot exist in reality, and therefore that the past must be finite and the universe must have begun. The hotel is meant to show that act…
- Sam Harris (YouTube)
Harris is the clearest speaker of the new atheists, and his debate with William Lane Craig, noted under The God Debate II - Harris vs. Craig, contains the best short statement of why divine command theory fails. I agree with him on free wi…
- Sean Carroll (YouTube)
Carroll is the physicist I trust most on the questions where physics meets philosophy, because he does both and does not pretend one is the other. His debate with William Lane Craig on cosmology, in which he argued that "cause" is not a co…
