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Does God exist?: Debate between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens

            During the debate, member s of the audience asked William Lane Craig (Christian) and Christopher Hitchens (Anti-Theist) to explain a few debatable topics about what proves or disproves the existence of God.  During one particular segment, Craig brings up the idea that Jesus came to Earth at the perfect time, that the bulk of all history’s human population came immediately after Christ spread Christianity.  He claims that 2 percent of all humans whom have ever existed lived prior to Christ’s life for the past several thousand years, and the other 87% after, when God knew would be the best time to harvest his faith in the people because the ideas would grow rapidly.

His logic however, is flawed.  One cannot say that Christ’s presence at that time was at the base of a major population boom.   In fact, it is proven that 93% of all the world’s population throughout history lived during and after the Industrial Revolution, over one and a half millennia AFTER Christ.  In that regard, God’s timing for placing Christ on Earth was NOT perfect.

After one segment when Craig says that his beliefs do not PROVE God’s existence (rather, they just present “the most probably hypothesis” out there), Hitchens counters with a quote directly from Craig’s book, saying that should a conflict arise between a theory based on faith and a theory based on anything else, the former would take precedence over the other.

Although Craig clearly lost a few points of critical logic, he was able to come up with questions to which Hitchens did not know how to answer.  To answer some of Craig’s questions, Hitchens had to base his arguments on his own established idea that God doesn’t exist, therefore, the audience favored Craig in the end.  It just goes to prove, although the theist side of this argument makes loops of contradiction and unsteady interpretation around itself, once a follower of faith hides behind a curtain of personal uncertainty but FAITH that the answers reside in someone else (namely God, or his extension in Jesus), they can attain the common support.

            In our world where atheism and anti-theism is becoming more prevalent, there may eventually be a time when the theist point of view will no longer dominate the debate based on followers.