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Hawking’s Curious Objections to Divine Creation

Last night, I watched over 2 hours of the Discovery Channel's new show "Curiosity" - they start off with a bang, the first episode takes on the biggest topic ever! "Did God Create the Universe?" It was mainly "all Stephen Hawking, all the time" - essentia...

atheism, big bang cosmology, creation, divine creation, stephen hawking

Is There a Contradiction in God’s Creation of Time?

The Law of Contradiction states that two mutually exclusive statements cannot both be true at the same time and in the same respect. The statements "God exists and the universe does not exist" and "God exists and the universe exists" are mutually exclusive sta...

creation, divine creation, existence of god, philosophy of time, time

Is the Cause of the Universe an Uncaused, Personal Creator of the Universe, who sans the Universe Is Beginningless, Changeless, Immaterial, Timeless, Spaceless, and Enormously Powerful?

Dear Doctor Craig,Your scholarly research in natural theology has been a tremendous help to me in my spiritual explorations. I am no longer an atheist but now a humbled agnostic thanks to the impact you and other philosophers have generated. Nonetheless, I sti...

arguments for the existence of god, creation, divine attributes, natural theology, origin of the universe

Does Creation Benefit the Lost?

Dear Dr. Craig, Although I'm an atheist, I have a deep respect for you and other Christian philosophers, and I must thank you personally for forcing me to abandon my position of arrogant atheism (that of Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris) and adopt the positi...

creation, divine-human relationship, hell, salvation

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God and the Moment of Creation

I’m an undergraduate philosophy student, and I have a question about your theory that God is in time with creation and timeless sans creation. While this view seems to be internally coherent, I’m struggling to identify a strong motivation to accept this po...

agent causation, creation, infinite temporal regress, time, relation to god, timelessness

God’s Decision and Act of Creation

Dr. Craig, in your discussions about God's creation of the universe, you argue that God's act of creation is a timeless event that brings about the beginning of time itself. However, if God’s decision to create is eternal and timeless, doesn&rsqu...

al-ghazali, creation, divine will, libertarian freedom, omniscience, time, relation to god

Does God Specially Create Every Human being?

Dr. Craig, I’m curious if we sometimes press this concept too hard:  ‘God actively creates every human being’. So many of the intellectual struggles with God’s sovereignty and human free will (or lack of free will) seem to be bas...

children, creation, dualism, hasker, william, soul, swinburne, richard

The Sabbath Day and Mytho-History

Dr. Craig, How do you reconcile what you believe about MythoHistory with these verses: "And God spoke all these words...Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord ...

biblical interpretation, creation, hermeneutic, mythology

Muslim Misunderstandings of Mytho-History

Hi Dr. Craig, It's a honor for me to ask you a question. I don't know if you watched a video by Mohammed Hijab, ( a muslim apologist) entitled "William Lane Craig's Bible Dilemma Worries Christians" but if you have not, I humbly advise you to have...

creation, genesis, gospel, islam, mohammed, mythology