Monday, March 25, 2013

Prof. Wm. Craig successfully debated Prof. Alex Rosenberg about “Is Faith in God Reasonable?” The 90 min. debate was held at Purdue Univ. on Feb. 1, 2013 You can watch the full debate on this link: live.biola.edu/  The panel of judges gave the victory to Dr. Craig 4/2, and the audience and internet vote also favored Craig; Both debaters had great academic credentials. My of some key differences in the debate approaches follows: Rosenberg opened with ...some ridicule of Craig in that his arguments have been used before and are not new; thus we should not pay attention to them. One of Rosenberg's key arguments dealt with Uranium atoms emitting alpha particles( with one emitting and one not, with no apparent cause). He used this to counter Craig's assertion that things that begin to exist have a cause. He closed with a statement that belief in God is like belief in the Easter Bunny, tooth fairies and Santa Claus. Craig had no such ridicule of Rosenberg but actually complimented him on some points. Craig used slides to help make points clear, had clear speech with almost no Ums and Ahs; Rosenberg had no slides, and many ums and ahs. Craig referred to Rosenberg's book featured at the debate, The "Atheist Guide to Reality", and pointed out some illogical problems in it. Rosenberg made little reference to Craig's Book, "Reasonable Faith". In these ways Craig seamed more prepared, on point with clear logical arguments and polished in his speech. Rosenberg also used the phrase "that Craig's arguments were offensive to him" which is and appeal to emotion, which is not proper use of logic. Also Rosenberg used the straw-man analogy using Joseph Smith's vision and Mohamed's ascension to call into question Christ's resurrection. What are your comments? My web site is at: creationapologetics.net

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