ABSTRACT
The word "faith" today is often debased in meaning to mean "blind or irrational belief". But the issues at stake in this debate are the epistemic preliminaries to those theological issues. William Lane Craig opens with a thought experiment made famous by Richard Taylor, designed to show that the universe requires an explanation. In some cases, we explain the present existence of one thing at least in part by the previous agency of another: the table on which the author writing exists because a carpenter, who was there before the table was, designed and assembled it out of pre-existing materials. Naturalism is, today, the metaphysical view of choice for atheists. In his closing statement, Alex Rosenberg offers advice to Christians, from an atheist: "Do not make yourself vulnerable to reason and evidence". If he had accomplished what he set out to do, this advice, though condescending, might have seemed more credible.
