Employees Bible Study Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory invites noted Christian apologist Dr. William Lane Craig for campus lecture

YouTube ^ | June 18, 2023 | Livermore Lab Events

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A nuclear fusion apparatus at Livermore

The Employees Bible Study Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nation's premier nuclear research facility, recently invited, as part of the guest speaker series to their California campus, the noted Christian apologist and philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig, famous for his debates against the atheist headliners of the day.

The title of the talk is "Three Arguments for God's Existence".

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Lecture followed by Q&A from employees and staff.

[PeterPrinciple]

The Employees Bible Study Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nation’s premier nuclear research facility, recently invited, as part of the guest speaker series to their California campus, the noted Christian apologist and philosopher

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Theology and philosophy used to be the peak of knowledge.

Everything else was a subset of these two.

Philosophy (from Greek: φιλοσοφία, philosophia, ‘love of wisdom’)

For your thinking, what is a christian apologist?

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For your thinking, what is a christian apologist?

Apologist comes from the latin Apologia, which means a a formal defense of an idea or belief or opinion.

The earliest evangelists, Christ's disciples, were the first Christian apologists, providing arguments and evidence for their beliefs.

Dr. Craig has built a Christian ministry called Reasonable Faith based on answering core questions about the nature and existence of God, and evidential arguments for the same, based on philosophical and logical premises.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

The lovely introduction speaks of wisdom ---

"Now there can be wisdom in remaining silent on God's existence, there is also wisdom in talking about it objectively."

Thanks for posting the URL. I would not have stumbled across it without your kindness in doing so.

[FarCenter]

7:40 Argument 1: Kalam cosmological argument
20:30 Argument 2: The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
37:55 Argument 3: The fine-tuning of the universe for life

But there seems to be no argument that such a cosmological god would interact with humans or that concepts such as a soul or afterlife have any validity.

Afterlife is the cornerstone of religion. If there is no afterlife, then discussions of god are pretty irrelevant to human existence.

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But there seems to be no argument that such a cosmological god would interact with humans or that concepts such as a soul or afterlife have any validity.

This statement is a notable retreat from the dismissive, triumphant proclamations of atheism during the heady days of the mid 20th century, and is already acceding to a debate on the territory of the God believer.

[ViLaLuz]

Thanks. Sharing with my daughter who works at Brookhaven. Maybe they can start something similar there.

[FarCenter]

There is a long way from the god of the big bang, of 2+2=4, and the fine structure constant = 1/137 to this bearded fellow on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.