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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Swinburne vs. Dawkins on the Mystery of Existence Part Two

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig responds to more dialogue between Richard Swinburne and Richard Dawkins on God's existence and simplicity.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig.

0:12.6

Hey, it's Kevin Harris, let's pick up where we left off last time with this panel discussion

0:17.8

that produced some interesting exchanges between the two Richards, that's Dawkins and

0:24.5

Swinburne. Dr. Craig has so much to say about the topics they discussed and as always you

0:30.4

can dive deep into the free resources available at reasonablefaith.org and you can also donate

0:36.6

to the work and ministry of reasonable faith right there on our website and we pray that

0:41.4

God will multiply and use whatever gift you give. We so appreciate it.

0:47.8

Reasonablefaith.org, now let's get back into the studio with Dr. Craig.

0:55.0

This next clip pretty much spells out Dawkins' main objection and results in an exchange between

1:01.6

him and Swinburne. Watch this, this is clip number four.

1:06.4

Richard Swinburne a moment ago said any scientifically minded person would believe that God is the

1:12.3

ultimate cause. Why is it about this explanation that you're not happy to entertain Richard?

1:18.7

Don't you know, is it simply to do? Isn't it obvious? Is it simplicity, the main point though?

1:25.8

Or is it just something non-physical?

1:27.7

Richard Swinburne is saying that God is simple because he's a single entity.

1:32.4

How can he be a single entity? If he's simultaneously controlling the universe, every particle

1:38.8

in the universe, he's forgiving our sins, he's giving us free will, he's deciding whether

1:44.7

or not you'll die or not at us on a certain day. Such a thing is not a single simple entity.

1:51.6

It's a highly complicated mammoth, great big fat entity.

1:56.8

Well, take another example of a very simple entity. A particle of matter here. This particle

2:05.4

of matter is influencing all sorts of other particles of matter, all over the universe.

2:10.9

How can it do that with just being one particle of matter? Well, it does according to the law

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