Thank you Dr. Craig, it's an honor to be
here. So say you give them the three
arguments, and you give them some sort of idea of what the arguments in favor of
Christianity are, but say you want to
push them a little bit on their atheism
and try to give them, you know, get them
to give evidence on their part to prove
their position. So when they say that
atheism doesn't make any positive claims
as to you, know, the non-existence of God,
and they take some sort of a kind of
agnostic position kind of trying to
evade and say, you know, on the
semantics, on the term, how would you go about answering? [Craig] I think it's very
important to see that atheism is just as
much a knowledge claim as is theism.
Theism is the view that there is a God.
Atheism is the view there is no God. Both
of these make a positive assertion to
knowledge, and therefore if you're to
believe either one, you need to have some
sort of justification. Atheism is not a
default position. If there is a default
position, it would just be agnosticism; I
don't know whether there is a God or
there is not a God. So the atheist does
also have a burden of proof to bear. He
needs to give good arguments for
thinking that God does not exist. But
tonight I focused on supporting our
share of the burden of giving positive
reasons to think that God does exist.
