Closer to Truth (PBS) host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks William Lane Craig about God being the first cause of the universe. Questions explored: What is the cosmological argument for God's existence? What are the subsets of the cosmological argument? What is the Leibnizian argument (aka Contingency argument) for God's existence? How is God the explanation of the universe? What is the first temporal argument (Kalam Cosmological argument) for God's existence? What is the history of the cosmological argument? When did the cosmological argument "resurface" in the philosophical world? Has science affirmed the beginning of the universe? How does astrophysics give empirical evidence for the beginning of the universe? What are the philosophical and scientific argument for the beginning of the universe?
Arguing from First Cause?
Closer to Truth with Robert Lawrence Kuhn
William Lane Craig
How is God the Creator? pt 2
William Lane Craig
Closer to Truth (PBS) host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks William Lane Craig on the nature of God as creator of creation. Question(s) explored: What is creation witih respect to God? How does God's providence work into creation? What is the difference between efficient and material causes? What is God's conservation of the world? If something is created does it need to be sustained? What is meant by God's creation and God's annihilation of an object?
How is God the Creator? pt 1
William Lane Craig
Closer to Truth (PBS) host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks William Lane Craig on the nature of God as creator of creation. Question(s) explored: What is creation witih respect to God? How does God's providence work into creation? What is the difference between efficient and material causes? What is God's conservation of the world? If something is created does it need to be sustained? What is meant by God's creation and God's annihilation of an object?
Is God All Knowing?
William Lane Craig
Closer to Truth (PBS) host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks William Lane Craig on God's omniscience. Questions explored: What does it mean for God to be omniscience? What is meant by proposition? What is meant by non-propositional knowledge? Does God have propositional or non-propositional knowledge? What is the difference between natural knowledge, free knowledge, and middle knowledge? Who is Luis de Molina?