Atheist Says to Stop Debating
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's nothing more to say. |
| 0:05.0 | Dada, la, da, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, |
| 0:11.0 | la, la, la, la, Dr Craig and Arthur for American atheists says that we should just stop debating that atheists should stop debating religion |
| 0:25.2 | he's not completely against debate but he's against debate he says of |
| 0:31.8 | nonsensical things or things that don't exist. He says as every |
| 0:37.2 | successful movement before it the atheist movement must now move past the debate stage because there are no new arguments to make and no new |
| 0:47.8 | evidence to present. |
| 0:48.8 | Now I think that's an interesting rationalization for why atheists should not engage in debates. |
| 0:56.2 | In the first place, it's false that there are no new arguments and evidence to present. |
| 1:00.6 | For example, Alvin Plann Planning has suggested two dozen or so arguments for God's existence, which are now |
| 1:08.4 | the subject of a book published by Oxford University Press, edited by Jerry Wals, which include quite a number |
| 1:16.1 | of very novel and creative new arguments for God's existence. |
| 1:21.5 | But even if there were no new arguments for God's existence, Kevin, that's irrelevant |
| 1:26.5 | because I find that most people are ignorant of these arguments, and therefore the purpose of public |
| 1:32.0 | debate can be to inform them about these |
| 1:34.9 | arguments of which they're unaware. You and I for example did a podcast some time ago |
| 1:40.2 | on PZ Meyers' critiques of the five arguments for God's existence that have often defended. |
| 1:47.3 | And it was shocking how superficial his understanding of these arguments was and I think in showing the |
| 1:56.4 | fallaciousness of his responses is definitely something that is a worthwhile |
| 2:01.2 | activity. He continues, we have raised awareness, we as atheist, have raised awareness, we have made our arguments, |
| 2:09.6 | we have pointed out the evidentiary and logical flaws in religious claims, |
| 2:14.0 | we have tried to educate and we have even gotten angry. |
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