Questions on God's Infinity and the Moral Argument

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Questions to Dr. Craig include God's relationship to finite things and how our sense perceptions relate to the Moral Argument for God.

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0:00.0	Yeah, we're going to be a ha ha ha!
0:03.0	We go!
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0:05.0	We can go!
0:07.0	Baka!
0:08.0	Go!
0:10.0	Well, it's time to put you in the hot seat and get some questions your way.
0:14.6	We get questions from all over the world, this one from the United Kingdom.
0:18.8	Dear Dr Craig, why is the existence of God the only good explanation for the existence of
0:23.4	intentional states of consciousness from Josh. We need to explain what we mean
0:28.6	here by intentional states of consciousness. What we mean are mental states that are about of vacation that I'm going to take this summer and the reason that these intentional
0:45.4	states seem to be incompatible with atheism is that no physical object exhibits these kind of intentional
0:57.2	states a chair or a stone or even the brain is not about something or of something.
1:05.4	Intentionality is a property of mental states and therefore it seems that
1:12.4	naturalism which is the most plausible form of atheism,
1:17.0	has no room for intentional states of consciousness.
1:21.0	And that's why, for example example a naturalist like Alex Rosenberg
1:24.3	concludes that there are no such thing as intentional states of consciousness. He
1:29.9	says he never thinks about anything in fact and that even his book that he wrote isn't really
1:35.8	about anything because intentionality is illusory on a naturalistic view.
1:41.8	By contrast, if God exists, then there are intentional states of
1:47.2	consciousness, namely God's own states of consciousness. And therefore it would hardly be surprising if there of who can think about things. So the idea here is that intentional states of
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