Testing William Lane Craig
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The Apologist. It is important to appreciate how the power of interpretation, existential meaning and subjective experience all influence religiosity. They play a significant role with maintaining faith , even to the point that the most potent of all the evidence-based arguments will often fail to persuade a believer to abandon their worldview. The religious mandate of an apologist might necessitate him/her to rationalise backwards; initiating a conclusion and implementing theology that fits it. One great defence of theism is to be found in the Christian Apologist William Lane Craig. William Lane Craig is a 'Christian Philosopher' though, how this differs to a philosopher who happens to be a Christian is unclear. Tensions once existed between William Lane Craig and Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist who still avoids publicly debating him. In fact, Craig's reputation among Christians has prospered due to Dawkins lack of participation. However, Craig does h