William Lane Craig: Is the Existence of God Provable?

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Can we prove the existence of God? In this Socrates in the City conversation, host Eric Metaxas speaks with William Lane Craig—Emeritus Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, renowned Christian apologist, and one of today’s most influential philosophers. Drawing from his new book, Systematic Philosophical Theology, and more than four decades of experience and research, Craig examines some of the most pressing questions at the crossroads of Christian doctrine and contemporary analytic philosophy. Together, they explore Dr. Craig’s long history of leading apologetic studies, the historical roots of Adam and Eve, the role of Neanderthals in the human story, humanity’s earliest traces of civilization, and how science and faith meet in many surprising ways.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Socrates in the studio. I'm in the studio. And I have the privilege today of speaking
0:12.7	as someone whom I've never met, but of whom I have long been aware. His name is Dr. William Lane Craig. And I will read the brief bio on the back of his
0:28.3	newest book, only because there is so much else that we could be here for half an hour listing
0:34.4	his great accomplishments. He is Emeritus Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot
0:39.1	School of Theology in La Marada, California, although he tells me he lives in Atlanta, in the
0:46.4	Atlanta area. He's a distinguished theologian and philosopher and has authored or edited more
0:51.9	than 60 books, including the Blackwell Companion to Natural
0:56.6	Theology, as well as more than 300 articles and professional publications of philosophy and
1:03.8	theology. Dr. Craig, welcome to Socrates in the city.
1:09.8	Thank you, Eric. I'm delighted to have the chance to talk with you today. Socrates in the city. Thank you, Eric. I'm delighted to have the chance to talk with
1:12.7	you today. Socrates in the city began 25 years ago, and it's a, you know, it's a simple concept. Socrates,
1:19.4	obviously a philosopher, you know, if not the philosopher, depending on who you speak with. But he
1:25.1	famously said the unexamined life is not worth
1:28.5	living. And we thought, what a great idea. Let's examine life. Let's talk about the big questions,
1:35.1	what I semi-jokingly call life, God, and other small topics. So because I have this, you know,
1:42.9	simple view that if you're searching for the truth,
1:46.4	you can find it. And that's part of what we do here. But we rarely are on the nose in talking
1:53.9	about God or the existence of God. I often say that we examine questions such as, you know,
2:00.4	does God exist?
2:01.4	Can we know whether he exists?
2:02.8	But I don't know in all the years of doing Socrates in the city whether we have actually
2:07.8	asked that question and or had anybody, well, I'm sure we've had people qualified to answer
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