William Lane Craig v. Jeffrey Jay Lowder
I received the following request from Keith Augustine to contact
William Lane Craig for a clarification concerning a potential debate
with Jeffrey Jay Lowder, the founder of Internet Infidels and an
outstanding debater (his debate with Phil Fernandes is, I think, the
strongest debate performance I have seen by an atheist, but of course
it wasn't against Craig.)
Keith wrote:
Hi Victor,
Would you be willing to contact WL Craig to get an "official"
communication from him about whether he'd be willing to debate Jeff
Lowder?
We've heard conflicting things: James Lazarus tried to initiate a
debate between Lowder and Craig on the InfidelGuy Internet radio show,
and
soon the project evolved into a real world debate prospect. In his
communication with Craig, Lazarus was told that Craig would recommend
Lowder for his next debate, but wouldn't do any debates unless invited
to do so by a university.
Subsequently, however, a student contact of mine talked to Craig's
people about setting up a debate on his campus and they said that
Craig had a
right to refuse anyone and wouldn't debate anyone without a PhD.
We were thinking that if someone that Craig respected approached him
about the issue, we might be able to get a straight answer from Craig.
Craig's response is as follows:
Yes, I did say I'm happy to have a debate with Jeff.
My statement to whatever university group is referred
to is just my general policy to which I feel free to
make exceptions. Jeff is an exception.
But nothing concrete is in the works yet.
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