Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig, today, and excurses on natural theology, part 22.

For more resources from Dr. Craig, go to reasonable faith.org.

Last week, I was at Ohio State University for a veritas forum, which turned out to be

unexpectedly significant. I had a debate scheduled with an atheist philosophy professor at OSU

named Kevin Sharp, and the subject was, is there evidence for God? And I thought, like most of these

veritas form events, that this would be a sort of friendly dialogue, where we would each speak

for 15 minutes, and then we would have a moderated conversation. Well, I have not experienced

such ferocity in a critic since I had those dialogues with Lawrence

Krause in Australia.

And Kevin Sharp had prepared very, very well for this dialogue.

He made a point of letting me know before the event began that he had listened

to all eight years of our reasonable faith podcasts, all of them. And he was familiar with the

debate with Sean Carroll, with Alex Rosenberg, as well as other material. And he had PowerPoints and charts to show,

went a mile a minute, and attacked not only the six arguments that I presented in my opening

statement, but all the other arguments I've ever presented anywhere. So it was really a very good contest. Many people have asked me,

what would it be like if you were to have a debate with someone who really took the time to

prepare? Well, this is your chance to find out, because this is going to be on YouTube as soon as

it's edited, and I think that it will be a great

tool for dissecting and talking about hitting the pause button replaying, thinking about it.

It was a very substantive discussion and I'll say something more about the content of it later on in the class today because

I want that to be part of the podcast because we can benefit from Sharpe's critique of all

of my arguments.

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