New Atheist Arguments Against God's Existence Refuted (3 of 5)

http://www.reasonablefaith.org - William Lane Craig takes on the New Atheists (led by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett) in their arguments against God's existence. Craig shows the inept and shallow arguments made by Richard Dawkins in particular. Dawkins fails to make philosophical and scientific arguments against God. Dawkins' "refutations" of the cosmological, moral, teleological, and ontological argument are at best shallow and unsophisticated as Craig demonstrates.

Table of contents: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E104D9B7DFE9B7F6

This lecture broken up by categories of arguments of God's existence: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8D03B649B2EC2A78

The New Atheism and Five Arguments for God (must register to read): http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8088

God is Not Dead Yet: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/july/13.22.html

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[jsoccerw87]

I disagree with Craig that "the laws of nature permit a large range of values for [Reese's fundamental constants]." The laws of nature (electromagnetism, gravity, the strong nuclear force, and the weak force) and the fundamental constants seem to be determined by the properties of physical particles (photons, gravitons, gluons, and W and Z bosons). I'm not sure what made particles have these properties, or what caused the Big Bang. But my best guess is a spontaneous quantum fluctuation.

[drcraigvideos]

@jsoccerw87 Nope: watch?v=_xAP06ykvZM

[sk84life0707]

confusion.... the only one who is confused is Craig.... he is embarrassing to watch....

[drcraigvideos]

@sk84life0707 Why not be specific and tell us what you're confused about concerning Craig? Or are you only here to do drive-by cowardly comments?

[Creationcreed]

@drcraigvideos I think its another drive-by, Is anybody hurt?:)

[drcraigvideos]

@Creationcreed I doubt it. But something tells me sk84life0707 is the only one hurt here. He's just too cowardly to deal with the video.

[drcraigvideos]

@iToyRobot I'm afraid you're right. This may be the closest that Craig will have in debating Dawkins. If only Dawkins had the courage to take on Craig...

[Autumn6]

William Lane Craig rocks! So glad to see God using analytic philosophy for His purpose. I'm surprised the Atheists haven't come and spammed the Dislike bar...

[Personmr]

7. implausiblity does not allways translate to imposability.

8. the argument that the universe was created by a personal actor is no less gesswork than the idea that it wasn't, both use assumptions that come about from observations of our suroundings.

9. simple and complex are relative ideas, for example you claim that a mosaic is made of simple parts, however a chemist could argue that the parts are complex because of the chemical reactions required to make glass/stone ect.

[TarriCJx19]

@drcraigvideos I agree with u

[THChristus]

William Lane Craig FTW.

[allendharmonica]

I like the way he debates, he does seem pretty sincere and genuinely interested in logically demonstrating his points. I´d like to see him going head to head with the neo-atheists though. Has such a debate happened already? If so, can anyone one point me to a video of it? Thanks

[lukehase]

Craig is amazing!

[lukehase]

Craig is amazing! 

[Destorath666]

@Destorath666 revision:sacrifice part of itself it does not have to be the whole of the entity

[Destorath666]

Isnt a universe with the existence of the god of causality a infinite one? This first cause(given that it must be uncaused) would either have to have infinite power or must sacrifice itself in order to create anything(since there is no other medium to start the universe with) so then is the first cause finite?