William Lane Craig, welcome back to the show.

Thanks Alex, it is really good to be with you again.

Broadly speaking, what are your opinions of Richard Dawkins?

I think he is a very engaging public speaker and interviewer. He's very urbane and

comes across as extremely sophisticated.

He has wonderful aesthetic tastes

and a wide range of interest.

So I find a lot to like about him on a personal level, but I sharply disagree

with his views. I think that he is very naive philosophically and

theologically, which is fairly typical for someone engaged in the physical sciences.

Every one of us who tries to do cross-disciplinary work

finds himself disadvantaged in that area or field with which he is less familiar.

And I think that Dawkins hasn't made a serious effort to try to understand philosophy or theology.

Now you'll probably know that the reason I'm asking you this is because I recently had Richard Dawkins on my own show and he had some choice words for you.

I didn't bring you up. He brought you up and decided to, well I'll play a clip a clip for our listeners in case they missed it.

I mean, there's sort of professional debaters on behalf of religion, people like William Craig.

I've no time for him. I mean he's he he got this

sort of loud rather pompous voice and he says that's a premise one, deduction two and things like that and

the audience I suppose is supposed to be in prayer.

I've had I've had William Lane Craig

twice on on my podcast and I always had a good experience with him having said that I didn't debate him.

I don't know what that would be like.

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