U fiirso qoraalka hoose ka dibna ka jawaab su'aasha kadib isla luqadda qoraalka:  Passage: Waxa uu ku dhashay 23 August 1949, magaalada Peoria, Illinois, Craig waa kan labaad ee saddex carruur ah oo ay dhaleen Mallory iyo Doris Craig. Shaqada aabihiis ee tareenka T. P. & W. wuxuu u kaxeeyay qoyska Keokuk, Iowa, ilaa laga soo wareejiyay xafiiska guriga ee Bariga Peoria 1960. Intii uu arday ka ahaa Dugsiga Sare ee East Peoria Community High School (1963<unk>1967), Craig wuxuu noqday tartan tartan horyaal ah iyo af-hayeenka dadweynaha, oo loo magacaabay kooxda doodda gobolka oo dhan sannadkiisii ugu dambeeyay wuxuuna ku guuleystay horyaalka gobolka ee khudbadda. Bishii Sebtember 1965, sanadkiisii labaad, wuxuu u beddelay diinta masiixiga, ka dib markii uu ka qalin jabiyay dugsiga sare, wuxuu dhigtay Wheaton College, oo ku takhasusay isgaarsiinta. Craig wuxuu qalin jabiyay 1971 wuxuuna guursaday sanadka xiga xaaskiisa Jan, oo uu kula kulmay shaqaalaha Campus Crusade for Christ. Sanadkii 2014, waxaa loo magacaabay ardaygii ugu fiicnaa sanadka ee Wheaton. Sanadkii 1973 Craig wuxuu galay barnaamijka falsafada diinta ee Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ee waqooyiga Chicago, halkaas oo uu wax ku bartay Norman Geisler. Sanadkii 1975 Craig wuxuu bilaabay waxbarashadii dhakhtarka ee falsafada ee Jaamacadda Birmingham, England, isagoo wax ka qoraya Doodaha Caalamiga ah ee hoos yimaada John Hick. Waxaa la gudoonsiiyay shahaadada doctorate-ka sanadkii 1977. Daraasaddan ayaa ka soo baxday buugiisii ugu horreeyay, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (1979), oo ah difaac ka dhan ah dooda uu markii ugu horreysay ku soo arkay shaqada Hackett. Craig waxaa la siiyay deeq cilmi baaris ah 1978-kii oo ka timid Alexander von Humboldt Foundation si uu u sii wado cilmi baarista taariikhiga ah ee sarakicidda Ciise hoos imaanshaha Wolfhart Pannenberg ee Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München ee Jarmalka. Waxbarashadiisii Munich ee uu ku qaatay kormeerka Pannenberg waxay keentay in uu qaato shahaadada labaad ee dhakhtarka, tanna cilmiga diinta, oo lagu abaalmariyay 1984 markii la daabacay shaashaddiisii dhakhtarka, Doodda Taariikhiga ah ee Sarakicidda Ciise Inta lagu gudajiray Muranka Deist (1985).  Su'aal: Hogaamiyaha yaa ahaa Craig markii uu baaray taariikhda sarakicidda Ciise?
Wolfhart Pannenberg