Responding to the New Atheists- Greg Koukl, President of STR

Greg Koukl, President of Stand To Reason (www.str.org) encourages people to use clear thinking when it comes to the question of God's existence.

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[pimpymcdougall]

I would call this guy an idiot but I am sure everyone in that room paid him money to be there. So I will just call the audience idiots.

[DrAndrewC]

@pimpymcdougall There is a well known maxim among Debaters - "Name calling is not an argument." In fact, seasoned Debaters know that when your debate opponent ridicules you with a demeaning word (such as "idiot") it is an indication that the name-caller is conceding that they have little support for their arguments.

[pimpymcdougall]

@DrAndrewC Who said anything about a debate. I was just calling them idiots.

[DrAndrewC]

@pimpymcdougall Indeed, "Who said anything about a debate?" (I agree with you, you certainly are not doing that).

[bc9021010001]

@zenowing "President of STR" is a ludicrously pompous title, if not deliberately misleading, when STR is your own self-publishing and self-promotion company. But then he is in the business of getting idiots to believe anything ...

[zenowing]

@bc9021010001 I don't get what you're trying to hate on, so to speak.?? Koukl has an enterprise... yeah... so what? That's a bad thing, as you're saying. I'm not following your negativity.

Is it perhaps that you simply need to hate him for some reason, and you've decided that you'll hate him for publishing?

If so, that illustrates your deficit, not his.

[Jovan14606]

Christopher Hitchens disliked this video 12 times.

[BeforeTheNoose]

@Xwarzone Where are these witnesses? I hope you're not using the Bible as evidence for them, becuase thats circular reasoning. Also, as said, eye witness testimonials are known to be among the weakest and least reliable forms of evidence. How many people have seen aliens? Seen the prophet mohumed? The loch ness monster? Weak.

[BeforeTheNoose]

@Xwarzone Preconception?! You have a lot to learn my friend. I don't say there could not be a god, altho the god of the bible is so highly unlikely i think we can confidently dismiss his existence. The default position is to not believe until evidence shows otherwise. What you said is akin to "YOU are the one claiming that a cetain act is out of bounds due to the preconception that there could be no Santa Claus"

[mordinvan]

@Xwarzone

Give me one good example of a biblical miracle for which there is no evidence to believe the people who finally wrote it down were providing an accurate description of the events which actually took place, as opposed to at best a 'swollen' version of the events? I know I can't think of one.