William Lane Craig, born August 23, 1949, in East Peoria, Illinois, is a prominent American analytic philosopher specializing in the philosophy of religion, cosmology, and Christian apologetics. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from Wheaton College in 1971, an M.A. and Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the 1970s, a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Birmingham in 1984, and a D.Theol. from the University of Munich in 1985. Craig has held academic positions including research fellow at the University of Oxford's Kampelman Chair, visiting scholar at the Institut für Philosophie in Munich, and professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, where he is now professor emeritus. Known for his debates with prominent atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris, Craig has authored or edited over 40 books on topics including the existence of God, the resurrection of Jesus, and the Kalam cosmological argument. He is the founder of the ministry Reasonable Faith, established in 1985, to provide resources for Christian apologetics. Craig continues to lecture worldwide and engage in public discourse on faith and reason.