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MrFungus420 wrote:

Teuton wrote:The point is that the "because they're all bullshit" kind of reply wouldn't be considered sufficient in academic discourse.

Hold on...

Are you talking about Craig or academic discourse? One has nothing to do with the other.

Craig does have an indirect thing to do with academic discourse - he strives for semblance to academic discourse (but with flaws inserted that favour his kind of arguments).

I have been thinking about his kind of apologetics, and I wonder which of these three objectives he wants to achieve:

1) convert people

2) preach to the choir and reinforce their beliefs

3) convince the choir that unbelievers are unreasonable?

I have increasingly started to suspect that people like him mainly aim for the third - a desire to increase polarization between believers and unbelievers. I wonder if anyone else thinks I may be right?