Theology is a valuable and respectable discipline when is adheres to the practice of studying the nature and history of beliefs people have held and continue to hold about gods. I suspect this is what most theology consists of, and the disparagement the field often suffers can be blamed on the indiscretions of some of its celebrity practitioners, like William Lane Craig, who stray way out of their lane and start thinking they have some expertise to help determine what actually exists and occurs in the universe apart from the beliefs of humans…