Hello, I'm Ruth Jackson and I want to welcome you to another unbelievable classic replay

from our archives.

Christian philosopher William Lane Craig and atheist physicist Lawrence Kraus met in Australia

for three public dialogues on the existence of God back in 2013, which were pretty memorable

for a variety of reasons.

William Lane Craig and Lawrence Kraus joined Justin Riley to reflect on the value of

the events and the way that it was carried out.

We'll hear highlights of their discussion on whether God commanded genocide in the Old

Testament and if there is good evidence for the resurrection of Christ and much, much more.

So on with today's classic replay.

Lawrence, it's great to have you with me on the programme today.

It was not long ago that you were sharing a stage on about three occasions with William

Lane Craig in Australia for a series of dialogues.

Just as we get into this, do you want to tell us about why you said yes to doing these

events, what you see is the value of having these kind of dialogues about God and science?

Well, for me, the prime goal of doing all of these events is to have people a better perception

of what science is all about and how remarkable the universe is.

And so that's the fundamental reason.

And the secondary reason is that it's to combat what I think are misrepresentations that

are propagated about science.

So usually I'm a little bit positive and talk about what we've learned about the universe

and how fundamentally what is really important is that people need to have their beliefs

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