Flannagan vs Bradley Debate "Is God the Source of Morality" Part 01/12

This debate between atheist philosopher, Raymond Bradley and Christian philosopher and blogger, Matt Flannagan, was entitled "Is God the Source of Morality? Is it rational to ground right and wrong in commands issued by God?" It was held at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, on 2 August, 2010.

Bradley is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy with areas of specialty in Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Logical Atomism; he has previously debated William Lane Craig, Edward Blaiklock and many other Christian scholars and describes himself as an older generation "new atheist".

Flannagan is an Auckland based Philosopher and Theologian with areas of specialty in Philosophy of Religion, Ethics and Theology; he has previously debated Bill Cooke, Zoe During and writes for the popular Christian blog MandM (www.mandm.org.nz).

The format of the debate was as follows:

Dr Bradley: Opening Comments [20 min]
Dr Flannagan: Opening Comments [20 min]
Dr Bradley: Reply to Dr Flannagan [10 min]
Dr Flannagan: Reply to Dr Bradley[10 min]
Dr Bradley: Closing Comments [7 min]
Dr Flannagan: Closing Comments [7 min]
Questions from the floor: [30 min]

The moderator for the debate was Professor John Bishop.

This debate is brought to you by the Evangelical Union (http://www.tscf.org.nz/campus/university_of_auckland/auckland_university_evange­lical_union/) and the Reason and Science Society (http://reasonandscience.doodlekit.com/home) with the support of Thinking Matters (www.thinkingmatters.org.nz). The opening statements and first replies can be found at MandM (www.mandm.org.nz).

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Morality
• God
• Divine Command Theory
• Bible
• Debate
• Conquest of Canaan
• Atheism
• Theism
• Christianity
• Raymond Bradley
• Matthew Flannagan

[samcarr6]

Bradley is brilliant

[Drgamedood]

John Bishop kinda looks like Stephen Fry. :p

[good2freelance]

The university should hire proper camera people with proper wireless sound equipment connected to their cameras. The sound quality is so bad :(

[menonfire12]

Wrong aspect ratio!

[p3tr0114]

I dont really think Russell's "Logical Atomism" is anything new.

It is in essence a kind of gleaming the truth through criticism.

This is an ancient philosophical tool which I feel Russell is not the founder of.

But I do agree on the title. I feel for an initiate this title "Logical Atomism" is almost spot on in describing the process.