Dialogue With Cosmic Skeptic, Part One
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bill a lot of people are talking about your interaction your dialogue with cosmic Skeptic as he's known, Alex O'Connor. |
| 0:17.2 | You were hesitant at first just because I think of the name to go on and do this dialogue but you changed your mind. |
| 0:26.5 | Yes, that's right Kevin. |
| 0:28.9 | I thought anybody who calls himself a cosmic skeptic can't be a credible person because cosmic skepticism |
| 0:38.6 | is so obviously self-defeating and self-referentially incoherent. Anybody who is skeptical that he knows anything |
| 0:50.8 | contradicts himself because he claims to know that he doesn't know anything |
| 0:55.8 | which is self-defeating. But I found in going on the show that in fact Alex was a very bright young man and very humble and open, easy to talk to, |
| 1:11.1 | actually not real skeptical at all, but quite reasonable. |
| 1:18.0 | And so it was a very, very good experience. |
| 1:22.2 | I'm very inspired and I'm encouraged that a young man like this is, has |
| 1:29.4 | studied the issues and takes them so seriously. Of course his YouTube channel but my friends and friends of |
| 1:37.6 | reasonable faith who are on YouTube I can always tell when they think someone is formidable because they'll talk about |
| 1:45.8 | them a lot and they'll show over them and they'll dialogue and they'll respond to |
| 1:50.9 | them comment and so I've been noticing that about Alex that people are |
| 1:57.1 | impressed with him and want to continue this dialogue so I found him to be humble and funny you know he said he was |
| 2:07.3 | glad he wasn't there when he was conceived with his parents. |
| 2:12.4 | That's a great love. parents. |
| 2:13.0 | That's a great lie. |
| 2:15.0 | I have been laughing about that ever since. |
| 2:17.0 | It's just a race. |
| 2:19.0 | But I'm quite impressed with him. |
| 2:21.0 | A lot of people appreciate the podcast. It was an hour and |
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