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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Scientists Discuss Reformed Epistemology

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Scientists try to understand Dr. Craig's view on Reformed Epistemology.

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0:00.0

The Bill I was checking out the website Peaceful Science and there are some scientists there who would rather discuss philosophy

0:26.3

when it comes to you and some of your philosophical views.

0:29.4

It seems that from time to time, reformed epistemology always tends to come back up.

0:35.0

And some of the things that you have said in your book,

0:39.0

Reasonable Faith, on our podcasts, on defenders on and so on.

0:43.7

And so they do bring up your reformed epistemology.

0:48.7

This molecular biology technician who says is an atheist says, expecting a man with the following viewpoint to come

0:55.6

to a rational conclusion when the tenets of his religion are contradicted by evidence is a

1:00.8

fool's errand. Then he quotes you from reasonable is a

1:03.7

Fools,

1:05.0

danger. Now there is a danger.

1:08.0

And all of this so far.

1:10.0

Some persons might say that we should never seek to defend the faith, just preach the gospel and let the Holy Spirit work.

1:16.0

But this attitude is unbalanced and unscriptural, as we shall see in a moment.

1:20.0

For now, let us just note in passing that as long as reason is a minister of

1:26.0

the Christian faith, Christians should employ it. And he put that in bold.

1:31.3

Right, that seems to be what he finds most objectionable.

1:34.4

Okay. An objection, you continue. Some people disagree with what I've said about the role

1:40.1

of argument and evidence. They would say that reason can be used in a magisterial

1:45.1

role at least by the unbeliever. They ask, how else could we determine which is true?

1:51.1

The Bible, the Quran, the Bhakavakita, unless we use

1:54.3

argument and evidence to judge them. Now I've already answered that question. The

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