Dr Craig, we talked about the New York Times interview that you conducted with Nicholas Christoph. It ended up being more

about the Virgin Birth and Miracles and he asked you questions that we hear from

skeptics quite often.

We wanted to talk a little bit about some of the response that you've gotten from this interview.

There were over 1100 comments before New York Times cut it off and said stop.

They can only handle so many comments.

This was flooded with comments in response.

As I read these comments on the interview, one after another was hateful and angry and largely ignorant of the issues that were being discussed and in my mind

Kevin I kept saying where are the Christians where are those who are aware of these issues? Why are they not

responding? Why is it also one-sided? And it really bothered me that Christians were so seemingly uninvolved in commenting on things like this.

They're buried down in the threads quite often and then covered up by ignorance and blowhards and lambasting and all those things that tend to and so you have to kind of mind for them and go down.

In one sense, that's a lesson for our listeners who want to comment on things,

that it's better to put a comment than a reply to a

comment because the reply as you say gets buried it's yeah whereas the

comment will be on an equal level with other comments and will provide some refreshing

change of perspective.

And Bill, it was quite a daunting task to go through over 1,100 comments.

When I'm looking at this in preparation for the podcast,

I decided that what we would do would look at the handful of comments that the New York Times

picked as best or best representative.

The first one right out of the gate, Alan from Humboldt County says,

a very kind, wise Irish priest, Father Daffey, answered my doubts doubts about such questions posed in this editorial by telling me

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