Question of the Week

"Regarding your recent debate with Shelly Kagan (on "Is God necessary for morality?"), I feel you didn't have enough time to really reply to Kagan's view that "moral duties are whatever rules perfectly rational people would agree to as a way of governing society" i.e. rationality is a basis or measure of morality. What's so wrong with this view?..."

Dr. Craig Responds:

"I did respond briefly to Prof. Kagan's view, Alexander, but I didn't press the point because our hosts with the Veritas Forum had made it very clear to me that they were not interested in having a knock-down debate but a friendly dialogue that would foster a warm and inviting atmosphere for non-believing students at Columbia. The goal was simply to get the issues out on the table in a congenial, welcoming environment..."