Welcome to Reasonable Faith of Dr. William Lane Craig, part two of are there objective truths about God?

This is a presentation that Dr Craig made several years ago at the European Leadership Forum in Hungary.

Let's pick it up with Dr Craig.

Now a final contemporary attack upon theological truth as the Christian understands it is the most wild of them all,

what I'm going to call radical pluralism, radical pluralism.

With roots in eastern mysticism, radical pluralism.

With roots in eastern mysticism

and radically individualized

through the critical philosophy of the German philosopher

Emmanuel Kant, this view holds that each individual constitutes

reality for himself, so that there is no trans subjective truth about the way the world is.

So on this view, that popular expression, well that may be true for you, but it's not true for me, is literally correct.

The world has no objective truth about it.

There is only the world for you and the world for me.

Now, at face value, such a view may seem patently absurd.

I mean, whether we believe that the stove burner is on or not, if we put our hand on it and the burner is on,

then we're going to be burned, whether we believe in it or not.

Similarly, there were surely events going on in the universe before I was born that are entirely independent of me.

The Big Bang, the era of galaxy formation, the age of the dinosaurs, and so forth.

But these sorts of absurdities result because we are still

thinking of an objective world out there and then trying to marry subjectivism

to it. Radical pluralism is much more radical than that.

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