#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Within Reason
Alex J O'Connor
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🗓️ 21 June 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
William Lane Craig is an American philosopher and Christian theologian. He holds two PHDs in philosophy and theology, and is a professor of philosophy at both Houston Baptist University and Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Dr. Craig is arguably the world's most famous Christian apologist, and often cited as its most effective public defender. He has taken part in high-profile debates with Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Anthony Flew, among others. Dr. Craig is the man who gave the kalam cosmological argument its name, and he speaks to Alex in this episode about that argument, and answers a number of objections to it.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Cosmic Skeptic podcast is brought to you by you. |
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| 0:08.0 | forward slash cosmic skeptic. Oh, So welcome back everybody to the Cosmic Skeptic podcast. My name is Alex O'Connor |
| 0:39.2 | and I'm joined today by Dr William Lane Craig who is the professor of philosophy at both Houston and Biola |
| 0:46.0 | Universities with two PhDs, has famously debated God and the existence of God with an expansive |
| 0:51.9 | array of very high-profile atheists and always seeming to come out of those |
| 0:56.2 | interactions unscathed. He's also the author of more books than years I've been |
| 1:00.9 | alive. So Dr Craig, thank you for taking the time, thank you for being here on the podcast. |
| 1:05.7 | Certainly, Alex, good to be with you. That number of books in your age may be a reflection of your youth, I think. |
| 1:12.1 | Maybe, I think you're, how prolific you are is kind of the point that I was trying to get out there. |
| 1:17.0 | Sure. |
| 1:18.0 | So, as I said just before we got started, Dr. Craig, I'm sure that most of my audience will be |
| 1:23.6 | familiar with you and some of the things you've said but they'll be familiar with |
| 1:26.2 | them through the lens of the atheist because in my community a lot of people |
| 1:29.8 | have responded to your works and so the people who are listening might feel as though |
| 1:35.2 | they've heard everything you've had to say before but it's unlikely that they've |
| 1:38.4 | really given the time to listen from the horse's mouth except in a in a debate |
| 1:42.1 | scenario where they're probably going in with some |
| 1:43.7 | biased kind of starting points. |
| 1:46.6 | So today I wanted to discuss the Kalam cosmological argument and one of the principal reasons for that |
| 1:50.4 | is because not too long ago I put out an article on my website |
| 1:54.5 | about why I thought there was a particular version or justification for the |
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