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Why Does Anything at All Exist?

William Lane Craig speaks at the National Faculty Leadership Conference. Transcript There is a handout going around, it consists of two parts. One part is an overview of the field of apologetics, which is the field of Christian philosophy or theology that I ...

gottfried leibniz, leibnizian cosmological argument, philosophy

Why Does Anything at All Exist?

William Lane Craig speaks at Wake Forest University for the Carswell Lecture. Transcript INTRODUCTION: Good evening! Good to see you all. Thank you so much for coming tonight. My name is Christian Miller, I am a member of the philosophy department here at Wa...

cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, universe

Considering God's Existence?

Robert Lawrence Kuhn (host of PBS' "Closer to Truth") asks philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig about whether God's existence can be demonstrated or not. Questions explored: Can you demonstrate God's existence mathematically? Does an argum...

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Is God Still Around?

The Kalam Cosmological Argument, like many arguments about the present existence of God, has a fatal fallacy. The fallacy is found in the 3rd premise, that because God ‘has’ made the universe, in which case He must still exist. It seems that you do...

arguments against the existence of god, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, necessary v. contingent existence, transcendence of god

A New Argument from Contingency

Hello Dr. Craig! In their book "Dieu, la science, les preuves", two french engineers (Michel Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies) offer an argument for the contingency of matter in 5 pages that can be summed up like this: 1- Any matter can take a wide or in...

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Earnest Questions from the Tien Shan Mountains

Dear Professor Craig, My name is Abdulla [surname redacted]. I am a student from Kyrgyzstan whose nights have been consumed for the past three years by your works — from The Tensed Theory of Time to your debate with Oppy in god and time.  Today, I ...

abstract objects, divine hiddenness, evil, problem of, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, maximal greatness

A New Modal Argument from Contingency

Hello Dr. Craig! Recently, Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen have developed a fascinating, cutting-edge argument called the Modal Argument from Beginnings, or MAB. It seeks to reach the same conclusion of the classic argument from contingency you defend usi...

arguments for the existence of god, causation, leibnizian cosmological argument, modal argument from beginnings, ontological argument

Is God’s Existence a “Brute Fact”?

This question is about the concept of a necessary being. I'm not sure how a concrete being can be self-explanatory. How is it any different from a brute fact? You can posit that an eternal God explains all of reality, but the question still arises: "why do...

abstract objects, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, necessary beings