Debate - Does God Exist? William Lane Craig vs Peter Millican (Audio Only)

http://reasonabe the full audio from the debate held at Birmingham University between Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig and atheist Philosopher Peter Millican.

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. As well as publishing hundreds of academic works and articles he is well known for his debates with atheists around the world.

Peter Millican is Gilbert Ryle Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and a noted Hume scholar.

They debate "Does God Exist?" before a capacity crowd at Bill's Alma Mater, Birmingham University where he studied for his first Doctorate.

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[JCrownwell]

Some of Millican's defenses are a bit bizarre, but his performance here is clearly superior to those of Law, Hitchens, Harris and Krauss versus Craig.

He's very capably shown how you debate against William Lane Craig:

1. You come prepared, having done your homework.

2. You structure your arguments cogently and substantively.

3. You refrain from pointless, time-wasting, appeals to emotion.

4. You recognise the relevance and importance of the subject matter being discussed wherever applicable.

[lravenhill]

id have to say this is the most substantive argumantation by an atheist ive seen thus far. very good debate. also very civil and not just the pre organised shouting of religous hatred normally done. usually athiets dont even engage his actual arguments and just say stuff like the bible supports slavery when craig is discussing somethingsuch as fine tuning. very well done

[Rvaccaro007]

@ludogogo Well morality is not grey. We just look at it that way. Morality depends on the situation at hand.

[ATLMastering]

@grondog1 Oh they've tried....can't say they really succeeded.

[grondog1]

Craig owned him! Has any agnostics been challenged by his points?

[ATLMastering]

@MrTechFox You make a self-refuting point. The whole point behind a debate is to present so many good arguments in favor of your position that your opponent is left with the daunting task of knocking them all down. That only proves that Dr. Craig had a lot of good arguments....so many that Atheists don't have time to knock them all down.

[bobbymars171]

If you rely on quantum theory the answer to the question "Does God exist?" is yes and no.

[Kiithknight]

@ludogogo

I think the point of the comment was to say that if we believe in the objectivity of physical reality because it is so obvious, we should believe in the objectivity of morals because it is equally as obvious. There's no comment on what those morals are, and there's no claim that people perfectly know morality. There are grey areas even in physics, but that does not go against the objectivity of its existence - it just says we don't fully understand it; we can have discovery in both.

[Law19157]

@ludogogo morality is objective because the basics of morality lying, stealing cheating etc. are known across the board. Your talking about complicated scenario's, this is where a theists would appeal to a higher authority and demonstrate that the world is clearly lost in this area.

[yihemaoful]

As a lover of wisdom and a skeptic of all religion, just based on pure reason and logic, I have to say that Dr. Craig defeated Dr. Millican in this debate. Dr. Millican has made good points, but every one of the points is rebutted by Dr. Craig. Dr. Millican ultimately is a logical positivist, who claims that one cannot know anything for certain besides logic, yet this theory has been defeated. But I congratulate the respect and the brilliance that both have show!