Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, an excurses on Natural Theology, Part 27.

For more resources from Dr. Craig, go to Reasonablefaith.org.

During our excurses of natural theology, we've looked at various arguments for God's

existence.

On the other hand, there needs to be considered arguments against God's existence as well.

It's not enough simply that there be good arguments to believe that God exists.

We want to know where the balance of the evidence lies.

Are there equally good arguments for atheism on the other side of the scale

that counterbalance these arguments or perhaps tip the balance in the other direction?

So during this section, we want to look at arguments against

God's existence. Now, as a matter of fact, there really aren't very many arguments against

God's existence, quite frankly. I find that the atheist's main complaint is just that there isn't any evidence

for God's existence. He complains that there's no reason to believe that God exists, and so

he is content to simply remain in unbelief. But you see, if you've got these arguments that we've just

surveyed over the last several months, memorized and ready to share, then that objection

won't apply to you. And frankly, unbelievers, I find, are not very used to running into Christians

who are able to offer good arguments for the hope

that is in them. When the unbeliever says to you there's no evidence that God exists, you can

stop him dead in the tracks by looking at him with a surprised expression on your face and saying,

is that what you think? Why, I can think of at least

five arguments for God's existence. And at that point, he's got to say, yeah, like what? And then

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