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Public Debate: William L Craig and Daniel Dennett on the Existence of God


William Craig, renowned Christian Apologist, author, speaker, and Research professor of Talbot School of Theology presents his paper as a one of the respondents on the the Evidences for the Existence of God in the Greer-Heard debate in 2007, between  theistic evolutionist Alister McGrath and prominent atheist and professor Daniel Dennett. In this audio record, Craig’s lecture (45 mins) on defense of theistic arguments is the response to Dennett’s criticism on theism.

Craig presents three theistic arguments for a Creator and Designer of the universe:

  • The Contingency Argument
  • The Kalam Cosmological Argument
  • The Teleological Argument

Full mp3 Audio (59.56 min)

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Saturday Quote: Alister McGrath on Relativism


“It is utterly wrongheaded to say that something is “true for you but not for me.” For example, what if I think fascism is true and you think liberal democracy is equally true? Should the fascist’s repression be tolerated by the believer in liberal democracy? If not, on what grounds? Why not permit Stalinism or Satanism or Nazism? Without criteria to determine truth, this relativism fails miserably.”[1]


[1] Paul Copan, True for You, but not for Me (Minnesota: Bethany House, 1998), P. 23.