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The Great Debate: Does God Exist? (CD/DVD Multimedia Edition)

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This is a great debate as it illustrates the effectiveness of Cornelius Van Til's "Presuppositional Apologetic Method" perfected by Dr. Greg Bahnsen against the pseudo scholarly attempt of a trained naturalist to deny the existence of God. Bahnsen was superb ! He asserts in his opening remarks that the proof of God is the impossibility of the contrary. He asked Dr. Stein to remain consistent with his materialistic worldview while giving a meaningful explanation for the existence of abstract concepts such as universal laws of logic, uniform laws of nature, morality, mathematics, thought. This is demonstrably impossible and Dr. Stein tried valiantly to do battle by ignoring the challenge and focusing on issues he had used with some success in the past against other apologists not employing the presuppositional approach and not rooted in philosophy. Dr. Bahnsen stated he was unaware of the reasons why Dr. Stein left his field of expertise in natural science ,having written his doctoral dissertation on the ovarian maturation of Japanese quail, to enter an area he was unqualified to be in. Dr. Stein retorted he didn't see how Dr. Bahnsens dissertation, on self deception, was any more relevant to the subject under debate than his own. Dr. Bahnsen answered this statement expertly by presenting the case that those who denied God's existence were indeed practicing self deception. At the end of the day Dr. Bahnsen chided Dr. Stein for not yet entering into the debate by presenting a coherent logical arguement. I've listened to this debate many times and each time I walk away absolutely delighted with Dr. Bahnsens skill .