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Christianity vs. Scientific Naturalism
William Lane Craig & Garrett Hardin
This debate
engages world views. Each participant attempts to show that his approach
to truth is the best way to make sense of our world. The debate consists
of initial statements by Craig and Hardin, rebuttals, second rebuttals,
and audience questions. The moderator, Jeffrey Burton Russell, is Professor
Emeritus of History at UCSB. William Lane Craig presents and advocates
a Christian world view. Craig holds doctorates in both philosophy and
theology, as well as Master's degrees in philosophy of religion and church
history. He has over eighty articles and books in print, on such topics
as the existence of God, the anthropic principle, timelessness and creation,
the resurrection of Christ, the Big Bang, and the Hartle-Hawking cosmology
(referring to Stephen Hawking and James Hartle, of UCSB). Craig has a
firm grasp on the most important cosmological and religious topics of
our time.
Garrett Hardin presents and advocates a world view of scientific naturalism.
Hardin is Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at UCSB. World-famous
for his penetrating discussions of bioethics in a number of books and articles
intended for both scientific and general audiences, he is widely cited for
his essay "The Tragedy of the Commons," which addresses ecology, population
theory, economics and political science, and which has been reprinted
in
more than one hundred anthologies. Hardin's work, especially that on population,
immigration, and abortion, has had many practical effects on public politics
and debate, as well as on biological science itself.
Program
recording date and length: 2002 ~ 1 Hour 47 Minutes (This study
was presented originally at the University of California, Santa Barbara.)
