Lately, I have spent my Friday nights playing some Church-league softball which has been a ton of fun. But due to the rainy weather this week, tonight our games were cancelled. (insert sad face here ____)
So, here’s how my night went:
- 5:45 pm Finished writing my 3 exams I’m giving next week in class
- 7:20 pm Went to Tendo Buffet (sushi and Chinese food)
- 9:00 pm Got home, read some “God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins and wrote about a page critique (after reading 6 pages in his chapter on Old and New Testament morality)… this could turn into a future essay project for my students–yes, two birds one stone!
- 11:00 pm-present Listened to one of my new favorite speakers: Dr. William Lane Craig
Craig is a professor of Philosophy at Talbot Seminar in Southern California. He has authored or edited several books and has publicly debated Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens–two leading atheists of our day, known as the “New Atheism”. (The Sam Harris debate can be found here) The man is basically a genius and I unconditionally accept anything he says as true 
The lecture on logical arguments for the existence of God can be found here (this is what I listened to tonight…. well, then I moved onto to re-watch his Harris debate). His cosmological argument is the only one he addresses here. But, I would HIGHLY recommend any of his other teachings you can find (literally hundreds of them on Youtube), especially his debate with Sam Harris that I will again recommended below:
In my Apologetics class, we watch his debate with Christopher Hitchens. Afterwards the students ask things like “Was that the best atheist they could find?” because Craig wins so soundly.
I’m not exaggerating when I say the man is an atheist killer, but in the politest sense, of course. (If anything, in my opinion, he is too humble and nice to his opponents–but you can judge for yourself)
