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Bethinking Conference: Dawkin's Objections to Deistic Arguments (William Lane Craig)

It has been a while since we've done any kind of apologetic stuff on here. I hope to change that soon. This material will be over a lot of heads (including mine). And I want that to be encouraging. These are some of the brightest and most brilliant minds the Christian world has to offer today. I hope you are able to learn a little something from these gentlemen and their conference from 2011. I can't offer good extra insight into this lectures but I will casually present some of my thoughts.

I'm hardly an expert on the cosmological argument but I've always liked this argument. I enjoyed hearing the fact that an "expansive universe" requires an absolute beginning. This kind of stuff is mind boggling. I love it.

The whole comment about "initial conditions at minus infinity" almost made me spit coffee out of my mouth. I'm glad I was able to understand the ridiculousness of that concept. Goodness.

The Bethinking National Apologetics Day Conference: "Countering the New Atheism" took place during the UK Reasonable Faith Tour in October 2011. Christian academics William Lane Craig, John Lennox, Peter J Williams and Gary Habermas lead 600 people in training for how to defend and proclaim the credibility of Christianity against the growing tide of secularism and New Atheist popular thought in western society.