Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haife shi a ranar 23 ga Agusta, 1949, a Peoria, Illinois, Craig shi ne na biyu na 'ya'ya uku da aka haifa wa Mallory da Doris Craig. Aikin mahaifinsa tare da hanyar jirgin kasa ta T. P. & W. ya ɗauki iyalin zuwa Keokuk, Iowa, har sai da aka canza shi zuwa ofishin gida a Gabashin Peoria a 1960. Yayinda yake dalibi a Makarantar Sakandaren Jama'a ta Gabas ta Peoria (1963<unk>1967), Craig ya zama zakaran muhawara da mai magana da jama'a, wanda aka nada shi a shekararsa ta ƙarshe zuwa ƙungiyar muhawara ta duk jihar kuma ya lashe gasar zakarun jihar a cikin jawabi. A watan Satumbar 1965, a shekararsa ta farko, ya koma addinin kirista, kuma bayan kammala karatun sakandare, ya halarci Kwalejin Wheaton, inda ya kware a fannin sadarwa. Craig ya kammala karatunsa a 1971 kuma a shekara mai zuwa ya auri matarsa Jan, wanda ya sadu da shi a ma'aikatan Campus Crusade for Christ. A cikin 2014, Wheaton ya sanya shi tsohon ɗalibin shekara. A cikin 1973 Craig ya shiga shirin a fannin falsafar addini a Trinity Evangelical Divinity School arewacin Chicago, inda ya yi karatu a ƙarƙashin Norman Geisler. A cikin 1975 Craig ya fara karatun digiri na biyu a fannin falsafa a Jami'ar Birmingham, Ingila, yana rubutu akan Hujjar Cosmological a ƙarƙashin jagorancin John Hick. An ba shi digirin digirgir a 1977. Daga wannan binciken ya fito da littafinsa na farko, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (1979), kariya ga hujja da ya fara fuskanta a aikin Hackett. An ba wa Craig wata ƙwararriyar ƙwararriyar ƙwararru a 1978 daga Gidauniyar Alexander von Humboldt don ci gaba da bincike kan tarihin tashin Yesu daga matattu a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Wolfhart Pannenberg a Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München a Jamus. Nazarinsa a Munich a ƙarƙashin kulawar Pannenberg ya kai ga digiri na biyu, wannan a cikin tauhidin, wanda aka ba shi a 1984 tare da buga takardar shaidar digirin digirgir, The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (1985).  Tambaya: A ƙarƙashin ja-gorancin waye ne Craig ya bincika tarihin tashin Yesu daga matattu?
Wolfhart Pannenberg