Is God a Delusion? 7/12

Moot: Is God a Delusion? Bill Cooke, Senior Lecturer, Manukau Institute of Technology and William Lane Craig, Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada

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[Birdieupon]

I really don't get Cooke at all. He's doing two things:

1. Agreeing with Craig that you can experience God personally.

2. Saying Craig is wrong to use logical arguments for the existence of God, but never actually engaging with the logical arguments themselves.

[7tylerjb]

"Suppose you suddenly hear a loud bang, and you ask what made that bang? And I reply, nothing! " ROFL LOL ROFL LOL

[ndzoko]

God is the great escapist. When you think you found him, you lost him. Theological bullsh,, is rampant in proving a deity.

[DiatonicSoul]

Cooke can't hold a candle to WLC, Cooke sounded like a frustrated little child.

[CheekyVimto08]

That moral argument is terrible!

1.If god does not exist, morality is an illusion.

2. We don't think morality is an illusion, therefore god exists.

Erm, hello. Illusion?

[5tonyvvvv]

@Birdieupon Atheists are lost empty people!!

[robtul12]

@AgeOfReasonXXI And how!

[AgeOfReasonXXI]

Craig is the master of quote-mining. in his article Pinker goes on to answer those same questions which Craig exploits to prop up his case. this guy is such a dishonest hack

[Domzdream]

AT 06:53)

NO Lame-O Craig-O. You do not. Because if you look at schizzophrenics, they base their delusions on the reality they are presented. In their eyes, they might see walking zombies instead of live people. It is their tautology. But it is an incorrect one.

Why incorrect? Because of outside comparrison. External obserbvation and concurrence. I'd agree, if ALL the world was only adhereing to ONE kind of god, then we'd have something to work with. Isnt it obvious to you? COme on!!!!

[ResurrectedThinker]

The squeak is pretty funny, but after awhile it's kind of annoying to keep doing that during an academic debate...

[romanali1]

@wigglesza Interpretations vary, eg one in body (but that raises more problems, such as limiting God to physical space) or one in purpose, which is more likely.

Being one in purpose means Jesus came to teach the way that is acceptable to Allah, ie Islam. Following the teachings of Jesus pbuh would please Allah, as how following the teachings of prophet Muhammad pbuh are pleasing to Allah.

Let's make the smaller assumption of "one in purpose" rather than the bigger assumption of "one in body".

[wigglesza]

With all due respect Mr. Cooke: many scholarly people just sit in their offices all day and are out of touch with reality. Talking from experience.