We listened to the live stream of the debate Wednesday night between Lawrence Krauss and William Lane Craig while Kelly and Christian did their homework. Craig was his usual self: articulate, ordered in his arguments, gracious, and vastly knowledgeable. Krauss was wildly under prepared. Craig actually had to correct him a good number of times on issues of physics. Krauss really made no cogent arguments about anything, much less a lack of evidence for God. He made lots of statements about stuff that Craig has addressed in previous debates, but Craig had such a target rich environment that he could not get to them all. Craig, in his usual style, had a list of five positive arguments for his side of the debate question. He explained them thoroughly and listed the reasons they were true. Krauss basically said, “That is false” to a couple of the arguments and ignored the rest. He gave no disernable reasons for the falsity. It is always a joy to listen to Craig, but debates are always a lot more interesting if you are not debating a buffoon.
Thankful there is another debate on Saturday night at 7:00 PM EDT between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig at Notre Dame University. We are going to break out the popcorn and pizza again. I am hoping for a better debate, but after reading a little about Sam Harris, I am a little skeptical. I think he might even be as ill-equipped for this type of debate as Krauss. We will see. The only link I kind find to the debate so fare is on facebook here. The debate is supposed to be live streamed so I will put up the link on this post as soon as (and if) I find it.