Category Archives: debates

I’m going to the Sam Harris-William Lane Craig debate!

Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 6, 2011 2 comments

I found out at the last minute that I’d be able to make it to the upcoming debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig. I’ll definitely be blogging it, hopefully with audience reactions, though when the post goes up will depend a bit on how tired I am from all the driving required. I’m [...]

William Lane Craig is a charlatan

Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 23, 2011 18 comments

Oh my science. From Luke Muehlhauser: Honestly, in a lot of debates with atheists, it’s William Lane Craig who is being more logical and more faithful to the arguments than the atheist opponent is. A lot of that just has to do with the fact that he’s better philosophically trained, so he thinks like a [...]

William Lane Craig vs. cute teddy bear girl on morality

Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 17, 2010 3 comments

There’s something about Xtranormal videos that makes almost any situation funnier. It occurred to me that this makes them a great vehicle for mocking the rhetoric of religious apologists. I want to emphasize that everything the Craig teddy bear says is based on things Craig actually has said. I relied especially on three books, each [...]

Report on the Hitchens-D’Souza debate

Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 8, 2010 8 comments

Overall, I’m very happy to have attended the debate. The amount of real interaction between Hitchens and D’Souza was far less than I was hoping for, in part due to the format of the debate. Still, Hitchens made for a very good representative of atheism, and actually I was pleasantly surprised by the approach he [...]

Part of debating is having balls

Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 27, 2010 5 comments

When Richard Carrier put up a blog post reporting on his debate with William Lane Craig, I decided I wasn’t going to bother listening to the debate. I was disgusted with Carrier’s complaints that he couldn’t have helped losing because Craig had an unfair advantage, so I simply wrote a blog post on debating tactics [...]