Review Of William Lane Craig's Argument For The Existence Of God

Both sides of the God debate, for the existence of god and against the existence of god, made very compelling points. In my opinion the strongest point made by Dr. William Lane Craig, who was in favor of the existence of god, was the, “fine tuning” argument. The argument is basically that the laws of nature were made almost perfectly for humans and the universe to exist and being that way is so improbable that the universe must have been intelligently designed by a god rather than being because of physical necessity or chance. I thought this was the strongest point because he bolstered his argument with not only sound logic but also statistics. Dr. Austin Dacey attempted to rebut this point by saying science has yet to discover a fundamental theory to describe why certain laws of nature are fine tuned for human existence. Dr. Craig countered by pointing out that his opponent did not deny that fine-tuned laws of

It says that a benevolent and all-knowing god would prevent all suffering that is not completely necessary. We can easily prove that there is pointless suffering by looking at people who suffer and die from diseases that have already been cured. Since the debate is about the monotheistic view of a single, benevolent, and all-knowing god, either there must be a moral reason for all suffering or god does not exist as they describe him. I think this point was his strongest because it is essentially irrefutable, no one can logically deny that there is pointless suffering in the world. Dr. Craig responded to this by making the point that we cannot comprehend gods reasoning and even if we could it might affect the outcome. I thought this was his most powerful argument because the reasoning can only be refuted by altering the monotheistic idea of god or giving sufficient reasoning for all of the suffering in the world, which is no easy