"The fool has said in his heart, «There is no God.» They are corrupt, they
have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good. " Ps. 14:1.
And to the scientists I say--which also applies to most learned persons:
"Professing to be wise, they became fools." Rom. 1:22.
Moorad
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Maatman <rmaat@mtcnet.net>
To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: Who is William Lane Craig?
>To the group:
>
>Keith asks about William Lane Craig. About a year and a half ago I saw a
>two-hour video of a debate between Craig and Adkins (an atheistic physical
>chemist) on the Dordt campus. It was fascinating. One doesn't witness a
>debate on an intellectual level between an evangelical and an atheist very
>often.
>
>Both attempted to prove their points by using logic. One Christian young
>woman asked in our question period (after the end of the video) if neither
>of the debaters had ever heard of post-modernism or deconstruction. My own
>feeling was that the atheistic physical scientist had to be--given the
>nature of his work and his atheistic position--a positivist. It seems to me
>that one cannot carry out physical chemical work using deconstructionist
>presuppositions. Given the approach used in Craig's previous writings, he
>was just the person to answer the atheist.
>
>Russ
>
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