The debate last week at Auckland University between Dr William Craig Lane and Dr Bill Cooke on Is God a Delusion is available for viewing at MandM
Being Frank has a their impression of the debate. EyeWitness says:
UPDATE: I forgot to add that Ian Wishart went along. Sounds like it was crowded in there!
And now for an edifying excerpt from Touchstone that I came across a couple of weeks back through a Insight Scoop article.
Hattip: Put Up Thy Sword
Being Frank has a their impression of the debate. EyeWitness says:
I was a little disappointed the atheist doctor (I’m sorry I cannot remember his name) could not present better rebuttal to Dr Craig’s arguments. He didn’t really argue on the debate topic of proving God does not exist.You can't prove that God does not exist. Hence, that's probably why Cooke did not go there.
UPDATE: I forgot to add that Ian Wishart went along. Sounds like it was crowded in there!
And now for an edifying excerpt from Touchstone that I came across a couple of weeks back through a Insight Scoop article.
“Is there anything more?” is the scientific question, but as Pascal asks it, the “scientists” vanish.
The agnostics ski down the mountain into the woods, searching for hard evidence on the basis of which to decide whether God exists—which is very odd, given that a moment ago they were standing here with us, ready to climb as declared skeptics. Agnostics, plainly, are wafflers in their skepticism: As the team gets going, they U-turn back to the foothills, where every true skeptic says there is nothing to find. They do not care about the truth.
But even more astonishing than that, the atheists have just gone home. They are not down in the valley looking for evidence; they are not looking at all. They have packed in the science without lifting a boot, as if the summit were already taken, the question answered.
The atheist is the team-member who was always talking up the loftiness of the mission, but after all his fervid urgings to “search for what is true, even if it makes you uncomfortable,” to go on no matter how hard and painful the going gets, he is the chap who grandly announces, without bending a knee, that victory is ours: “God should be readily detectable by scientific means.” “Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.” We now “rule out the God worshipped by most Jews, Christians, and Muslims.” The climb is done, and the atheist scampers back to town to meet the press.
Hattip: Put Up Thy Sword