Part 1 of 9 - Sam Harris vs William Lane Craig - Debate_ Does Good Come From God - 7 April 2011

Sam Harris debated William Lane Craig at Notre Dame University on 7 April 2011 on the topic Does Good come from God?
Are the foundations for moral values natural or supernatural? - This was the way the debate was introduced by the moderator.

Introduction overview of the speakers (taken from the website):

Sam Harris, one of the "Four Horsemen of Atheism," a neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author, will seek to show that the separation between scientific facts and human values is an illusion. Harris will prove that science, not religion, should provide the basis for morality.

William Lane Craig is an American Evangelical Christian apologist, theologian, and analytic philosopher known for his work in the philosophy of religion, historical Jesus studies, and the philosophy of time. One of the foremost apologists in the field, Craig has faced some of the best and has been known to hold nothing back in his sharpshooting style of debate.

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[MrRyu1er]

7:50-7:59 xD the "WTF?" look on Sam Harris's face when Craig lays down his contentions

[desasterz]

@MrRyu1er He looks like a Velociraptor.

[TomVodkaCollins]

WLC's words leave a greasy residue as they enter my ears.

[TomVodkaCollins]

@newipad Testify!

[newipad]

Amazing. Even when Harris is angry, his voice remains calm and measured. His words become stronger, but his demeanor remains quiet and polite.

[newipad]

@desasterz I can't even begin to guess how hard either of these men are to understand for someone whose ignorance is as great as yours. How dare you explain to people who are "too ignorant" to understand and then not bother to use words you can spell and use correctly?

[mouthyweasel]

pfft. Craig... the anointed sovereign of bullshit. All he ever did with his life is convert oxygen into carbon diox-lies.

[desasterz]

Dr Craigs fraim is very complicated and hard to grasp onto for laimen culturesd and ignorant people. But its true. Take for example, Dr Zakir Naik was talking about the fact that different gendered babies have differnet dificulies according to thier bodies fighting bacteria and diseases. I care about them in that sense. But it is not the flourishing of concious creatures wellbeing that decides of my moral responsability as a human being.

[DaMuzicKing]

I just listened to an interview of william lane craig in which he said "if god where to strike down my children right now in front of me, i have no reason to question that. god transcends morality and therefor cannot be questioned when bad things happen all over the world" Even a well read theologist says the dumbest most barbaric things about his children, imagine what the regular joe shmoe indoctrinated person will say.

[mouthyweasel]

It's not fair what Sam Harris did to William Lane Craig. To be made to endure the experience of a one second being a well respected academic type at your school of theology, and the next second you're proven to be a lying con-man/blithering lunatic running home to mama with a tear stained face and a thoroughly shat on reputation. Oh the shame.

[cocoalrose]

Hahahaha if you can't stand listening to Craig's bullshit, turn on Transcribe Audio:

11:16-11:43 "than what basis remains for the existence of a check give moral values; in particular wife thing the human beings would have objective moral worth on the eight years to do you. Humans are just accidental byproducts of nature which involve relatively recently auditing firm of possible speck of dust called a planet earth." Makes more sense than what he's really saying..hahaha