William Lane Craig: The Origins of the Universe - Has Hawking Eliminated God? Cambridge October 2011

William Lane Craig responds in a public lecture to the claims in Stephen Hawking's recent book The Grand Design. Speaking to a capacity audience at St Andrew the Great church, Cambridge, Prof Craig outlined the weaknesses of the central arguments of the book. Rev Dr Rodney Holder, an astrophysicist, responded to Prof Craig.

This lecture was a part of The Reasonable Faith Tour 2011 sponsored by UCCF, Damaris & Premier Christian Radio.

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[AMWOODco]

@kingfappington And if you had watched for just an extra two minutes, you would have seen that Craig decided to ACTUALLY look deeply at Hawkings claims. Go ahead, watch the video, you won't be disappointed.

[karlwashere123]

Hawking only feels that way because he has what you would call a"good model". un like this some people..hum..some people are "why?" people and some people are "why not!" people... I'm bettin this guy's a "why?" guy.

[kingfappington]

I was prepared to watch this until the end until his primary point, which was not really a point at all, rather an opinion from Martin J. Rees (winner of the Templeton Prize in 2011, take that as you will....). WLC until you can begin a lecture attempting to refute claims by a highly respected physicist with ACTUAL logic and not carefully selected here say, how can you expected to be taken seriously?

[emailpobox666]

@AgApE010 As for Craig's other arguments do you have any issues with what I said about them/

[emailpobox666]

@AgApE010 The one or two dimensions we perceive as time didn't exist prior to the big bang. If you wish you can google the big bang and read up on the many theories of time . some say it's one dimensional so say multidimensional. but whatever it is it's existence coincided with the beginning of the universe.

[emailpobox666]

@AgApE010 WLC continued ". i don’t think that controverts the witness of the holy spirit. In such a situation i should regard that as a result of the contingent circumstance that I’m in and if I pursued this with due diligence and with time I would discover in fact the evidence if I could get the correct picture would support what the witness of the holy spirit tells me"

[emailpobox666]

@AgApE010 WLC "The way in which i know Christianity is true is first and foremost on the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. this give me a self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart of the evidence. And therefore if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity.

[AgApE010]

@emailpobox666

"Time didn't exist prior to the Big Bang"

Again, what do you mean by time?

[emailpobox666]

@AgApE010 you have too much faith in dr Craig . Here's an interesting quote from him which says a lot about his character.

[AgApE010]

@emailpobox666

I'll read it. Thanks for citing your quote properly.