On 30 March 2011 (US time) Dr Lawrence Krauss and Dr William Lane Craig will debate the moot Is there Evidence for God? at North Carolina State University. The debate will be moderated by His Honour Paul M Newby, Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Thinking Matters, Evangelical Union and the Reason and Science Society have arranged permission to stream the debate at the University of Auckland on Thursday 31 March 1-3 pm (NZ time). They have invited Matthew Flannagan to field Q&A from the audience arising from viewing the debate.
Professor Krauss is a theoretical physicist and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Books he has written include “the Physics of Star Trek”.
Professor Craig is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. His books include a written form of his debate with Anthony Flew. For more info on their scholarly work, check out Wikipedia.
Both of these speakers have visited the University of Auckland in recent years and both drew large audiences; Dr Craig debated Dr Bill Cooke in 2008 and Dr Krauss gave a public talk there in 2010.
So diarise this event now:
What: Is there Evidence for God? Krauss v Craig Debate Streamed Live (Q&A with Matthew Flannagan)
When: Thursday 31 March 1-3 pm (New Zealand time)
Where: University of Auckland, Room to be advised (watch this space)
Check out the Facebook page, RSVP and invite others.
Tags: Debates · Lawrence Krauss · William Lane Craig8 Comments
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Great work! I greatly admire both speakers, it is sure to be a substantial debate with minimal Dawkins-like sideshows.
I am a huge fan of Professor Krauss, and use his book Fear of Physics with my beginning physics students. I would like to watch this debate, but in which time zone, East Coast US or Auckand NZ? At least you should give a time zone, and reference it to GMT. Thanks
If you follow the link in the first paragraph above through to the official debate page you will see the option to watch live. This debate is being streamed live on the web and I assume there it will have the precise time and time zone.
Awesome, thanks for sharing. Should be a lively discussion and provide some great thoughts for each of us in our personal evangelism.
Thanks for the notice of what I am sure will be a fascinating discussion.
It was pretty darn good. It’s cool to see two really smart guys duke it out. Both made good points and defended their positions well.
Audio of the debate can be found here: http://bit.ly/fcZEJr at Apologetics315.
Any one doing a review?