@GrotesqueKevin how can you generalize like that? do you realize that what ur saying is that everyone on the planet only believes in a religion because someone told them to? and that no one actually understands their religion or has a reason for believing? what u stated is very dangerous. For one thing, i know exactly why i believe in Jesus Christ, and i started to believe in him through my own persistence, and searching for the truth, and finding it.

Some people don't even know why they believe in something, they just believe something because they want it to be true. Like I was talking to this Jehovah Witness girl I know, and she told them that she was thinking that she might be-friend me because I'm Christian & not a Jehovah Witness. And I asked her "but what if what you believe is a lie?", and she said "then I'll live believing in a lie", that just comes to show, that people believe things just because they want to think that it's truth.

@seantaylor1334 "WHYare we here?" is the wrong question bc it presupposes the answer- that we're here for a reason or for a purpose. the correct question is: what is the EXPLANATION of our being here?, which includes the possibility of there being no particular reason or purpose to our existence in the same way a star or a mountain exists for no particular reason or purpose. in fact to ask "what is the (objective) purpose of a mountain?" is silly: it cannot have one. same might be true of humans

@seantaylor1334 you say "science isn't the only way to recieve truth" well give us examples of other ways! revelation? you obviously don't realize that revelation has proved to be totaly useless in obtaining (true) knowledge. what example can you give of any insight of what's true about the nature of reality that's been gained by revelation? the scientific method is the only reliable way to truth, and it's not a 'thing' you can smell or touch; it's a system of inquiry that gives true(!) results

@seantaylor1334 the statistics are significant bc it shows that science DO have something to say about god; those scientists are atheists due to their scientific understanding of the nature of reality- the more you know about the world around you, the more likely it is to become an atheist Craig is a spin doctor bc he starts from the supposition "god exists" and adds a theistic spin to any argument/evidence in order to make his case. he's the very embodiment of what it means to be biased!

@seantaylor1334 Prove that you know something that can't be tested scientifically. You were asking why we are here. That has a scientific answer. You were asking if we are here for a purpose (which is more of supposition that some magical being is responsible and had a purpose) than it is a question. Why something rather than nothing? Who knows. But no one would have had a problem with that thought if there had been nothing.

@drandersw And yet my point still remains science isn't the only way to truth my friend. Why do you think that science is the tell all. I have a question that scientist's, using the scientific method, cannot answer, well a few. Why are we here? Do we have a purpose? Why is there something rather than nothing? I'm sorry, but if you think that science is the only way to truth, you should rethink that. Not at all, I don't think I have to sense something in order for it to be true, however, you do.

@seantaylor1334 'the method', 'the method', yes I did read it the first time. Are you also concerned about that you can't eat or smell '1+1=2'? Silly you. You further asserted that you can come by knowledge without science which means that you are a person who will claim to know even when it can't be backed up by scientific scrutiny.

@drandersw Mumbo jumbo doesn't refute what I have said, either come up with something more intellegent or you and I can't discuss this any longer. Define this "crap" WLC spouts. Again, I am not saying SCIENCE is the issue here, just the method is what you can't verify with your five senses. Science is but one way to recieve truth. The scientific method can't attribute to all truth known, it's just logically impossible. How do you come to believe things in your everyday life? Is it due to the SM?

@seantaylor1334 mumbo jumbo... Jump out a building and let's see if you care about the theory of gravity or your own mumbo jumbo. After that (if you believe the insane crap that WLC spouts) then why don't you try killing yourself? According to him you will begin to experience remarkable wonderful things once your brain has begun to decompose.

@drandersw Notice that I didn't say Science can't be sensed, I said that the scientific method can't be sensed by all of our sense. What you are implying, correct me if I am wrong, you only believe in something when your senses pick up on it. Which that implies you only look to science for all of your beliefs because science deals with things you can sense (i.e the natural world.) But surely you don't believe every truth can come by science, and science alone.

@seantaylor1334 What do you mean? Science is based on observations that can be sensed and tested and when you actually understand something you can make use of this, develop technology, and so on. That other way to obtain knowledge that you are mentioning is to simply pretend that you know something, make some **** up in your head or be persuaded by someone else who did.

@drandersw However, science isn't the only way to recieve truth. If you believe that you can only have truth when you have seen, tasted, touched, heard, or smelled then how do you trust the scientific method itself? You can't see it, nor can you touch it, hear it, or smell it. Anyway, my point is, you can't exclusively get knowledge for science, there are other means by which you can obtain knowledge.

@AgeOfReasonXXI I must say that the statistics are staggering, however, that isn't evidence against God. Who cares if most of them are atheist. Prey tell, what is a spin doctor?

"killing is an atheistic activity" hahaha what a fanatical nut-job! you think you're gonna impress any atheist with your Iron Age dogmatic faith? get a life! and btw the vast majority of intelligent people ARE atheists! 93%(!!) of the most elite scientists in the U.S.(NAS)are atheists. the religious are mostly uneducated rednecks or insane spin doctors like craig. so why don't you just go back to the Middle Ages where you came from and where you belong

Wrong. The problem with your little fantasy is that killing is an atheistic activity. God says "THOU SHALT NOT KILL." It is no surprise that a believer in atheist dogma™ like you advises killing. You should be ashamed of yourself, but of course, you have no shame, so carry on!

Both are available to Theists, and that is the reason why the vast majority of intelligent human beings on the planet accept Theism and reject atheist dogma™. God reveals Himself in more ways than you can count. Unfortunately, certain individuals, such as the lower animal and the atheist, lack the intelligence necessary to grasp any portion of the vast body of logical and scientific evidence for His factual appearance and activities.

Why is there a Coldplay music video in the related videos??

Are you speaking from personal experience?

come on dr craig, if you present sound and persuasive arguments and facts about something you don't need faith

If you believe in both god and causality then you probably believe that you will continue to think when you no longer have a brain and that you will experience remarkable things and see god even more clearly? The cause of having no brain gives the effect of seeing god clearly. So why don't you kill yourself so that you can go to heaven? It is just a matter of time anyway. Right?

It is like referring to the fact that he was hung as evidence for his guilt to the crime that got him hung.

Okay? Which one do you want to believe in? God or causality? If you believe in causality then wouldn't you expect god to answer your prayer for instance? Cause = prayer. Effect = answer? Test it. Pray away like crazy for something and compare the outcome to no praying. What you seem to have is a case of delusion. Learn about how the brain works. Test inducing other delusions if you want. It is perhaps uncomfortable to experiment with the brain but it will teach you a lesson.

Science deals with everything that is real and science is about actually finding the truth. It is tested. Airplanes actually fly, etc. No bull****. The WLC bull**** is used to prove that fairies exist or the santa clause or some magical space monster who is made of non-matter.

What he was saying here was that retarded people are easily fooled. You can make them 'feel the spirit man'. The rest of the people you can try to fool with the intellectual puke that he produces. The relationship between faith and reason can be understood by comparing how he knows to how he shows? Well, he knows it by self-delusion, this is what he is saying. He shows it by presenting bull**** that every mentally sound person must be able to see through.