We are happy to share with your the recent three-part discussion between Prof Lawrence Krauss and Dr William Lane Craig in august 2013 about ‘Life, the Universe and Nothing’. These debates were organized y the City Bible Forum and made available on their Youtube Channel. The first dialogue was held in Brisbane about the question ‘Has science buried God?’; the second in Sydney on the question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ and the third in Melbourne on the question ‘Is it reasonable to believe there is a God?‘
The first dialogue in Brisbane: ‘Has science buried God?’
The second discussion in Sydney: ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’
The third in Melbourne on the question ‘Is it reasonable to believe there is a God?‘
We also provide three podcast episodes of Dr. Craig’s ‘Reasonable Faith’ apostolate in which he evaluates the three discussions in Australia.
- What happened in Austalia: This podcast sets the stage for what has gotten the attention of people all over the world!
- The First Debate with Lawrence Krauss in Australia: A dialogue with Lawrence Krauss called, ‘Has Science Buried God’ became a symphony of personal attacks on Dr. Craig!
- Examining the Content of the Krauss Debates Part 1: The “God of the Gaps” is dead! Why does it keeping coming back up? What about the thousands of gods science has eliminated?
- Examining the Content of the Krauss Debates Part 2: Was Jesus just compiled from various ancient myths? Does science need God? Is God being eliminated by science?
You can find these podcast on the Reasonable Faith website
From our perspective, we happily conclude with Dr. Craig that the ‘gods’ of which atheists like Dr. Strauss – with all due respect – are denying there existence are basically ‘gods of the gaps’, ‘divine solutions’, so to speak, for unresolved scientific problems, whereas the christian God is beyond the realm of what science is studying: matter and energy in space and time, from the beginning of the universe till now and in the future. We also defend the position of Dr. Craig that the ‘nothing’ out of which Dr. Strauss is claiming the universe has brought itself into existence is in reality a ‘something’. As a world renown cosmologist, he is studying physics and seems to have no idea of – or no room in his thoughts for – metaphysics, reducing reality to the empirical observable. He does not seem to offer any answer to the question why there is something rather than nothing. The viewer/listener may judge for him or herself.
