OMV: Peter Kreeft on the Existence of God, Part 1

Here, author Peter Kreeft gives a talk on the existence of God at Saint Francis Chapel at the Prudential Center in Boston. This video is Part One.

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[detsufaigo]

Thanks for putting this vid.

[omvusa]

@detsufaigo, your welcome. Dr. Kreeft is a good man and it is good to see that his talk has inspired a lively debate.

[ambbc08]

Kreeft sounds like a great professor but he is among the least like at BC. It is interesting I find that students often tell me thier relative a BC grad told them to take his course because he is "famous" and end up not liking him, often understanding and disagreeing with him, and 99/100 hating him. I am convinced more there are more atheists alive today because of Kreeft. He is a friend of mine but do not express love of him or hold cultish views on him.

[omvusa]

@ambbc08, I don't know of people who hold a "cultish" view of him, but I do know many, many people who like Dr. Kreeft, his writings, and his classes. The Chapel was filled to the brim on the day he spoke. Personally, I have had many, many professors over my many years of college (I have three degrees). I had Dr. Kreeft for six classes and he is by far the best professor I have ever had in a college course.

[Sirchud68]

I love Dr. Kreeft!

[mk2escortvan]

Bloody hell. I was ready to give this guy a fair hearing, then he says that the question of god's existence does not need addressing, and that anyone who thinks it does is a fool. What a wanker.

[dylkim]

i did NOT see the British accent coming! haha, i love Dr. Kreeft too!

[2nDoppelganger]

@IgnatiusOfAntioch Im sorry for not posting an essay entailing all of my dismissals. 

[IgnatiusOfAntioch]

@2nDoppelganger,

@2nDoppelganger That's all you got out of this? It will be more beneficial if you pay attention instead of dismissing it out of hand.

[dgraycroft1]

This is laughably poor logic. He uses 'proof' before marriage as a metaphor for proof of god. Except he doesn't explicitly qualify proof of what? Whether or not you should marry this person? Whether or not they can make you happy in some sense? How about whether or not your marriage will last and be happy. If such a thing is so easily proven, why do half of all marriages end in divorce, even within Dr Kreeft's Catholic religion? So much for that premise.

[themanhootch]

The problem of atheism is that they want space-time evidence for the existence of God. If God exists, He exists outside of space-time, for before the beginning of the universe, there was no space-time, yet to be God, He must be "prior" to the universe, but then there was no space-time. Now, try to imagine something that is not defined by space-time, the five senses. Impossible. So all we can do is look for His "fingerprints" on the universe, as it were.

[2nDoppelganger]

Did Kreeft just call me a fool?

[Maarttttt]

This isn't a philosphical proof for the existence of God either. If anything, it's spiritual.