UBC Lecture Dawkins Delusion Part 2

Part two of the Dawkin's Delusion lecture and Q/A session delivered by Dr. William Lane Craig that coincided with the 2008 "Does God Exist?" debate at UBC.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• God
• Theism
• atheism
• Richard Dawkins
• materialism
• Dawkin's Delusion
• God Delusion
• philosophy
• worldview
• Dr. William Lane Craig

[TCupUK]

@qwistrod Non of those things you seek affimation of are non-existent. Thoughts exist, well at least I thought they did?

Thoughts also have the power to manifest in the material world.

[TCupUK]

@scusemelittleoldlady Your brain continues to send out electrical wave signals approximately 37 hours after death. Intresting little fact that I thought you might like to know.

[TCupUK]

Very intresting arguments but it would have been nice if he went a lot further. Imho science today is a minefield waiting for evoultion to be destroyed for good.

[TCupUK]

@Bkkhngr81 If you do reply then my inital intention has manifested a cause and an effect of a conversation, and even if you do not it will still cause another effect in some way or the other. Once the intention is there cause and effect can not be stopped. It must run to its conclusion regardless because the laws of physics dictate this. All of this manifestation that has occured was created in a extremley small area of my mind.

[TCupUK]

@Bkkhngr81 Cause itself does not need a cause, only efffetcs need a cause. Consider cause as an intention and the effect as the physical manifestation of that intention. So my reply is first concived with my intention to reply, this ineffect causes me to think what to say, me thinking what to say is the effect. This effect inturn passes on the intention with the added information of what I am going to say and causes the effect of me writing this reply. That effect may cause you to reply.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

@qwistrod

"Then I realised that probably an elephant is supporting the ground underneath."

Heretic! It's turtles all the way down!

[qwistrod]

I believe that God does not exist because Dawkins says so. Some object and say what is your reason for believing that Dawkins speaks the truth. But in fact requiring that you have to have a reason for the reason obviously immediately leads to an infinite regress because then you would need a reason for the reason for the reason and so on to infinity so that nothing could ever be supported and rationality would be destroyed.

[qwistrod]

I found it totally baffling why the ground does not fall downwards under gravity. Then I realised that probably an elephant is supporting the ground underneath. So now I don't have any more headaches.

[qwistrod]

God is non-existent whether you want God to exist or not.

Much like affirming the existence of dragons, Santa Claus, tooth fairies, ghosts which you can't touch but can hallucinate or affirming there is a demon reading what you type on your keyboard.

[colombiaparadise]

Another pertinent question is, if you had the choice, would you want god to exist?

Well, God exists weather you want God to exist or not.

Much like denying the existence of the ocean, of gravity, something we can feel but can't see, or denying the existence of the keyboard you are wrtting on.