A Debate: The Resurrection of Jesus: Fact or Fiction?

William Craig

Thursday, 05 Feb 2004 at 7:00 pm – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission free

William Craig is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in Atlanta and author of several books including Reason Faith; No Easy Answers; Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology; The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe; and Knowing the Truth about the Resurrection. Hector Avalos is associate professor of religious studies and director of the U.S. Lantino/a Studies Program at ISU, and executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, a part of the Council for Secular Humanism based in Amherst, New York.

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