William Lane Craig Is Not A Logician

William Lane Craig describes a "good argument." It has three conditions. 1) It obeys the laws of logic. 2) Its premises are true. 3) Its premises are more plausible than their opposites.

I argue that there is a contradiction at hand.

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Those who take issue with the content of this video are invited to demonstrate their willingness to discuss the issues - or their inability to do so.

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Also, please note that this video is the product of a conversation with urbanelf. We took the same clip from of William Lane Craig and came to slightly different but more or less consistent responses. It's interesting to compare and contrast our two responses. His video is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PHX7c0Nj2M

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[AdversusHaereses]

Actually WLC isn't too far from a definition of a good argument. That is precisely what Paul Tommassi defines as a good argument in his book "Logic"

[theowarner]

@AdversusHaereses On what page?

[steinarrexfaroensis]

Might I inquire about your education theo?

Just out of curiosity...

[theowarner]

@steinarrexfaroensis

I've stated this in many places.

I have a Bachelor's degree in English and Masters in the science of Education.

[quagmire444]

do you dedicate all your time and energy into attacking some apologetic philsopher? really? you do?

[theowarner]

@quagmire444

No. Yes. No.

[Radicalindifference]

@Namo1245 In all honestly I have nothing to say. " And yet you said it

But you are right about one thing ." I do not want to discourse this (shit)"

But the author of this video has specifically requested YOU ( those whom are willing to argue on behalf of WLC) to a dialogue .

I am one of those who find this stuff nauseating

Don't get me wrong ,I have the full respect for the Absolute Laws of Logic

That is until we find better ones

[AdversusHaereses]

@AdversusHaereses From pages 4-9 he gives instances of good arguments and of arguments which are sound and valid which are not necessarily good.

[LowresTV]

I loved when Bill and his arrogance were destroyed by Bart Ehrman. With historical facts.

[LowresTV]

Bill Craig is a coward and simply a preacher. A cheap one.

[Satarack]

But it isn't that a premise must be plausible, it must be more plausible than it's negation. In otherwords, you have to take the premise, and the negation of the premise, evaluate them independently of each other, and then compare them to determine which is more plausibly true. You would make such an argument on things that cannot be absolutely known to be true or false, for example the question of whether there are other minds, or whether objective moral values exist.

[Satarack]

Hmm, well I suppose if the premises are true there's no need to consider whether the negations are probable. Now I may be speculating, but perhaps what WLC means is that a good argument arrives at a conclusion that "therefore X is true," or if arguing on the basis of what is probable a conclusion that "therefore X is more probable than it's negations."

[paralaks]

Funny video. Dislike. Get some maths/physics/chemistry education. Don't waste people's time. 

[craigpsimpson]

@Sickopath333 I think I've been consistently coherent concerning the reasons why theology has never lived in a logical sense. But fair enough, good luck to you.