ABSTRACT
By virtue of what are at the end of day superficial signs of scholarly achievement, Craig is among the most accomplished philosophers in the realm of Christian apologetics. On the one hand, the grounded scientist, humanist, or skeptic should be embarrassed to pay any attention whatsoever to apologetics, Christian or otherwise. On the other hand, there is a clear and present danger in the seductive potential of such apologetics to persuade the un- and under-educated (never mind the so-called educated) that they are in the presence of reasoned arguments. It sometimes feels as if one can’t turn away from these apologetics for the same reason people are drawn to burning buildings and car crashes. Like most apologists, Craig relies on a sociologically and historically naïve understanding of logic and mathematics as phenomena that escape society, culture, history, time, and space. This allows him to claim that their alleged immateriality demonstrates the reasonableness of an immaterial, timeless, spaceless God.
