He came back for round two?

"God" created the brain in animals and nature in such a way that they're not aware that they are suffering or feel pain? Have you ever walked into an animal shelter and looked into the eyes of dogs who feel afraid, feel sad, feel lonely, and who feel despair? Have you ever watched them tremble in their emotional struggle in pain? Have you ever watched a dog smile and wag its tail and dance around in joy when its human companions arrive home? To be so mindlessly unaware and ignorant in such a way that you can conclude that "God" created animals in such a way that they are unaware of their own suffering. That takes religion. Religion makes people believe stupid things and say stupid things. Religion is disgusting. Your absurd conclusion is insulting to the human intellect and to the intellect of other animal species that you are obnoxiously out of touch with. The late Christopher Hitchens was correct when he said, "Religion poisons everything."

I wonder if that Craig guy really believes all that religious stuff ….

It's so interesting to see to what extend a man is going to convince himself and then others with hour long complex explanations and twisting scientific facts for the single point of acting as if you can prove something that is just the product of the human imagination.

Making a PowerPoint presentation with the key reasons why we should believe the resurrection is beyond my comprehension 😂

WLC GODS BODYGUARD

Atheists are sad little people.

Id jack off in here but paul reubons.

Needs a link to the apparently kid who probably was never lied to about his biological origins.

Atkins got lucky in life to get a platform like this, as, obviously, he's intellectually limited. He manifestly doesn't realise that it's no more difficult for a football match with crowd and media presence during the halftime interval to appear from nothing, or anything else whatsoever, than a subatomic particle (whether one described in current or future scientific literature). Not to perceive this is a sign of brainwashing.

Love the way William Lane Craig told the Audience for those of you who might not of understood Pyles reply let me help you. Pyle had to resort to Sarcasm to make a point

Should also be noted that we are spiritual beings living a human life!

Also talked about in here about why does God? Use pain and suffering to bring us to him. That's because it is his design.

If God were to reveal himself to us that would in fact take away our free will

I am confounded that scientists don’t just acknowledge that, “We not know where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going”. Until they get the scientific evidence that they have the answers to these questions, I think the appropriate answer should be, “We don’t know”.

Explanations, explain. The noun god explains precisely nothing. How exactly can something that does not explain anything be claimed to be an explanation of anything? Craig has been corrected multiple times on his assertions about the origin of the universe, and one he conveniently ignores every time, which is that the universe exists as a brute fact. That is it exists necessarily. And before all you theists try to jump on this, consider that BOTH theist and atheist accept that nothing can come from nothing. It has no properties, no potentiality. Hence, whatever the universe is, it must exist necessarily. Likewise, it must necessarily exist in a form that facilitates the fine tuned constants. The crucial correction on Craig’s assertion of the universe, physical necessity, should instead be a brute fact. This is not only perfectly consistent with everything that is known, but is also philosophically robust. To try and argue that a necessary state needs an explanation (god) is to defy the rationality of a necessary state. Thus, Craig is trying to argue that god explains a necessary state (which IS an explanation), but ironically is necessarily incoherent. In other words he his trying to provide an explanation of the explanandum. And that, dear theist, is just nonsense. Also note that Craig banging on the validity of the Kalam only ever demonstrates a cause, not god. And Craig’s moral argument is widely regarded as philosophical fluff and is not taken seriously for a very good reason. Theist you should know there are many ethical explanations that not only take objective morality as a given, but literally dozens of them have no need to ground their explanations in any god gobbledegook.

Besides being a brilliant & clear Philosopher & Theologian, in his graciousness & kindness, William Lane Craig is kind of like a Christian Mr. Rogers. Both WL Craig & Mr. Rogers might be seen as weak &/ or vulnerable by virtue of their gentleness but both are strong & masculine men in the truest sense of the word. ❤

All religions are fantasies of mankind!

The 'Grand Design' is an artifact of man's thinking! Ergo!! Fantasy reigns over rationality...perpetrated by such nincompoops like John Lennox

As a retired academic I see two divergent approaches to research used by these two professors. One is a scientist who seeks to explain the world around him without any agenda. The other is a philosopher who begins with his conclusion and then seeks evidence to support it. And that is simply dishonest.

Atheists have redefined the word nothing in order to avoid a transcendent impetus for the origin of the universe!

Infinity can't be just an idea otherwise god couldn't exist! Since god wasn't created she must of existed for eternity!

Okay that's awesome Professor Atkins said Jesus was a wizard, cause pretty cool

I was in the audience for this. I wasn't aware it had been recorded! After the debate WLC stuck around, and I shook his hand and said: "I disagreed with almost everything you said, but thank you for putting across your case with rationality and civility."

Unfortunately, John Lennox is unable to discern religious fairy tales, fictions, & myths from facts.

The moron Atheist was a stuttering idiot.

If I were a wealthy, famous scientist who wanted to hang out and do who knows what at Epstein Island, I would probably keep reassuring myself that there was no God. I look forward to the day when his escapades will turn up in a debate about objective morality in the absence of God.

Delusion, illusion, hallucination and general purpose scam.

Why are intelligent people entertaining the likes of Peter Atkins. He's a JOKE of the highest order.

Fantastic!

Prof. Atkins needs to stick to whatever subject he professes. He is abysmal at philosophy and logical argument.

its crazy how different the two come off. Atkins is constantly agitated and hostile. Craig seems like a normal nice person you can have a meaningful conversation with.

Craig's degrees are in speech, philosophy and theology. He appears to have little or no scientific capabilities. With this in mind, what could one expect him to say? He simply repeats the same tired hacks and differs to authority. His tired voice inflection makes it appear that he is in it for the money.

There is no credible proof of any god anywhere at any time.

I guess I am lucky I have always believed in God. It is hard to understand that so many do not. Nothing builds itself.

MORE CHRISTIAN WORD SALAD,RABBIT HOLES, MISSDIRECTION,APPEAL TO AUTHORITY! ALSO THIS IS KILL ME NO BORING!!!

Natural selection of the gaps this is on full display....

Love the way Atheists always go on about David Hulme whos rubbish has been proved to be nonsence over the Centuries.

Craig seems to claim creation, which would .mean " nothing " had existed,-- so what does "nothing" exist of ? Always existed and Always will, -- No beginning and no end. Where would a magical God come from to create everything from so-called nothing. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed.

Atkins is actually speaking the truth this is the reason why you don't like it because the facts of reality are hard for some people to comprehend and to accept and the fallacious reasoning that Craig is getting on with continues without any sufficient demonstrative evidence for his claims

This guy is an arrogant and smug pig. All he has is insults. It's a pathetic and weak argument. One might call it intilectually lazy.

All the arguments to defeat the atheistic principles in science are good. But as soon as you start imposing that God can only be the God in Bible, you become like those materialists. Both modern Christianity and modern science turn people away from God. I would never force myself into relationship with God just so I don't go to hell, or because some possible historical figure died on a cross. Historical events or people are not proof of God. Christians actually have nothing if they don't accept the ressurection. Even if that happened, yogis in India could do much more impressive feats and miracles that Jesus allegedly did. But Christians cannot help themselves. As soon as you accept the Bible, everything else is Satan. No thanks.

The poor atheist’s arguments points seem rather weak next to the theists arguments. If I were someone on the fence or someone not ever having heard of God, I would absolutely and unhesitatingly take the theistic side.

Atkins is the fool who is mentioned in Psalm 14.

Never trust a man who dyes his Hair and Beard.

WLCs apponent was a idiot. Complete fool who was out of his depth

They were both presumptuous in this debate assuming the Universe came from nothing. Einstein didn’t believe “nothing” was even a possible state

Next he will tell us there's know such thing as a Tooth Fairy.

I know he made a lot of advancements in science and evolution, modern evolution. But all in all, Stephen Hawking was an idiot. Very frustrated with stuff that happened in his life, his wife not being with him, his life not being what his ego wanted. Probably God if he's there somewhere and exist knew all along and cursed him or gave him the Job's choice, believe in me even in suffering and you will be saved. But, he preferred to shit his shit ideas from his frustrated mind. A brilliant mind but full of resentment that only served the devil's purpose. Hope he's doing well where he's now.

Peter and other Atheist scientists have brilliant mathematical minds but know very little about philosophy and nothing about Biblical knowledge. Not everyone, but most. Why they prefer to fight God rather than seek Him, is as old as sin itself.