Dr. Craig's Strange Encounter with Richard Dawkins
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- Dr. Craig recounts the strange story of Dawkins being curt with him in a hotel lobby the first time they met.
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Dawkins' lack of manners during his encounter with Dr Craig is more revealing than he perhaps intended. He frequently boasts that scientists maintain an open mind and are uniquely self-critical, always open to challenge. Dawkins, as instantiated in his brusque dismissal of Dr Craig, is as closed minded and dogmatically wedded to his own world view as it's possible to be.
The problem with an "open mind", is that it is often like an open sewer allowing all sorts of trash to flow in.
@@briancasey4917 That is why you need a filter; like one you see in fish tanks. Do you want to know what that filter is called? Common sense!
How TRUE
Others have reported similar encounters with Dawkins.
He needs the money.. an open mind would be against that.. atheism tends to lead to materialism and nihilism
Dr Craig's impressions are 😂😂
Hahaha :)
WLC's impression of Richard Dawkins is hilarious
I plead to all Christians. It is good to know how to give an answer to why you believe that Jesus is Lord but dont forget the aim is to Love. It is clear, Dawkins is a hurting man and needs to be Loved. Love you all and keep pursuing the Lord. It's one thing to know about God, it's another to know Him. Blessings
Thanks! Needed this.
@@saintronin7633 Dont worry man, the Lord Jesus truly Loves you. Keep going, you are doing amazing!
I Love you too
Gary Boulton, that is a thoughtful reply. It makes me think of working with children who have had unloving, unhealthy starts to life who need love and acceptance and a calm response. They express this need in angry, destructive, hurtful, hateful, and violent ways. It helped me see that Richard Dawkins must have pain and brokenness (like we all do). The response to his spewing of hatred is in 1 Corinthians 4:12,13. 'When reviled we bless, when persecuted we endure, when slandered we entreat'. And Romans 12:14 'bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them'. Thank God for his Word as the anchor, as it is HARD in the moment to bring love and not anger!
@@salgar1234 Sister I love your response. Was you saying it's making you think of working with kids, do you mean that is your desire?
@@garyboulton7524 oh what I mean is that I do work with children with this reality and your comment helped me see the parallel between Richard Dawkins comments and the children's behaviour. Essentially this helps me to trust God's word and not my feelings or emotions.
Dr. Craig's impressions of Dawkins are like Darth sideous
The Dawkins impression is hilarious. You'd almost think he was a imperial officer during the colonial era talking down to the primitive american colonists.
He's a British snob, coupled with arrogance which means he takes snobbery way too seriously.
Richard Dawkins sounds like a character from a novel, at least a character I would write anyway.
Pls write I will read
Nathaniel Marquardt I love the fact he won’t debate WLC again, I guess I’d shy away from it too if I was just straight wrong
@@ChristopherDolby who Dawkins or craig
the gud onion Dawkins.
@@ChristopherDolby ok
Dawkins is an intelligent man, but he doesn´t come across as a particularly nice person most of the time, and this only confirms it.
On what grounds did he call Craig an immoral person? I´m actually interested to know.
Dawkins thinks that it is a form of child abuse if you raise your children to know about God and the bible. I must admit that I laughed at first , but I came to realize he wasn't joking. Dawkins needs psychological help ( and spiritual help). If he truly thinks that parents who give their children biblical values ( praying, loving God and others, the good news of Christ and salvation, etc.) harms kids, I think it is time for Dawkins to be evaluated. Honestly.
@@randypacchioli2933 The problem with "biblical values" is that they include child murder, genocide, stoning people, and the concept of "eternal hell".
I wouldn't want my children to believe that it could ever be ok for people to be tortured after death because they don't believe in jesus.
@USCmusic10 where has WLC failed?
@@randypacchioli2933 there's absolutely no joke and we shouldn't be laughing at child abuse. Raising your child in this modern day age to be a devout Christian is 100% child abuse. You are causing irreparable harm to that easily influenced human mind. Your pitiful story of salvation is incredibly immoral and forcing that on children should be illegal.
Raising children to know the Lord is the greatest thing parents can do for their children.
Dawkins running from William Lane Craig like the Devil running away from the Holy Cross is satisfying.
2:33 Bill "Well I hope we will have a good discussion"
Richard "It's highly unlikely"
This shows the deeply rooted hatred and fear, that is often manifested as arrogance among many new atheists.
"Highly unlikely" could. You at the very least show some manners? Or is that something your highly degree doesn't allow you to do?
when you see yourself as superior to others there is no need to show manners
From what I've seen in interviews, Dawkins despises Craig because he is a genocide apologetic. Craig has specifically stated that the murder of children in the Canaanite genocide was a good thing because the children went to heaven afterwards, which is an absolutely ridiculous statement. Don't think I'd be showing respect to someone who condones the murder of children.
😂 philosophers drama
Calling Dawkins a philosopher is giving him entirely too much credit lol
Dawkins running from William Lane Craig like the Devil running away from the Holy Cross is satisfying.
Richard Dawkin and other atheists would never come fact to face with Craig. You are blessed with unique wonderful and charming skills of debate and justify each and every thing in way that can be understood by everyone. Atheist hates you because after debates with you they would loose their following.
Eh, many prominent atheists have come "face to face" with WLC. Christopher Hitchens and Lawrence Krauss being two of them. I'm sorry, but no true atheist will change their world view after listening to WLC or any other bible thumper, no matter how fancy their arguments are dressed up. He is a skilled debater though, I'll give him that 👍
@@normanhirschfeld3823 yes and they lossed 😅
weird how almost of all the world has heard about Sam Harris Dawkins and Hitchens yet apart from Americans and some followers of theology and debates almost no1 has heard about Craig(not that popularity is important just countering ur statement).
Sorry, I never heard any discussion won by WLC. Nor have I heard any convincing argument from him. His just "kills" his opponents with unending word salad. How do you seriously want to discuss with such a person?
Would it be crazy to hope that one day there would be a debate between Dr Craig and Stephen Fry? Would the latter react to him the same way? I wonder . . . but I'm glad to see there are genuinely good, Chestertonian-like Catholic debates and intellects out there and on this show here. Thanks for sharing Matt! God bless!
Have the Atheist trolls been here for a while, or is it just because you invoked the name of their lord and savior?
Usually the Atheist trolls go after WLC as well as protect Richard Dawkins, so it's surprising to not see many here.
@@petery6432 Very surprising.
I'm an Atheist but I don't feel the need or see the reason to defend or offend anyone. We are not all the same you know
@@ATOK_ Yes, thank you. Unfortunately, your type is not the most common kind found on the internet.
@@ATOK_ I know, there are trolls of all persuasions. I did not mean to refer to all atheists, just specifically the ones trolling here.
I watched that 3 v 3 Debatte
Debate. It was amazing.
Dawkins reaction speaks volumes - so much for an open mind and calm rational debate.
a rational debate with someone who believes in an invisible man in the sky and offers no evidence?
@@bipslone8880he does offer evidence, in his debates
@@elijahknox4421 What was the evidence?
@@bipslone8880 he sometimes talks about the historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection
@@elijahknox4421 historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection? Are you joking? How would you go about providing evidence for Jesus being resurrected? You understand that the Bible is the claim, and it can't be evidence. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John are anonymous and there is no evidence that who ever wrote them were even witnesses or even lived during Jesus's time. People don't even 100% know that Jesus was a real man let alone a supernatural entity that preformed miracles.
Dawkins exemplifies the bitter arrogance of so many atheists. We need to pray for them.
The ones showing arrogance are you and the other apologetics. Prayer has been scientifically debunked as having any measurable impact on anything. So sorry to disappoint you but praying for atheists to "see the light" is going to have no effect. And why are you lot so concerned with changing other people's minds anyway? Just keep your crazy beliefs to yourself and you will start to be considered less arrogant.
@@brentmeistergeneral1054 You have only proven my point further.
@@jonathanmcentire970 in your own mind maybe.But actually any objective reader will see that all I did was to present you with a fact which you couldn't respond to and asked you a question which you couldn't answer.. Have a nice life and please don't waste your time praying for me or anyone else!
I've seen a couple passages in Dawkins book, seems like it was written by an enraged college student thinking his thoughts are the right ones and doesn't want to accept anything else. Weak book.
you consider someone immoral so you refuse to challenge their views. Dawkins is a being of PURE LOGIC.
Dawkins was putting up a front because he was probably insecure.
It's a tactic of a scared bully, he is intimidating the man not to challenge him. In a crowded room of course as he probably couldn't physically fight his way out of a paper bag.
I saw the debate . Had some good laughs . Thanks.
As an Englishman, Dr Craig's attempt at an English accent is the funniest part of this.
It's because Richard Dawkins is an intelligent man who sees right through Craigs BS x
"oooh look at little Dawkins Jr... Wanna Craig?" 😂😂😂😂
I am inclined to believe-and I mean this in the most amiable way-that Dr. Dawkins isn't as bona fide as certain individuals would like to believe. He strikes me as a haughty kind of individual; like a hubristic sophist. It bemuses me how this pseudo is "the most famous atheist."
Nice, this comment is the most anti-foreigners I have seen lately. I still brought the dictionary in though.
An atheists calling another man, immoral? Can you see the Tu QuoQue there? 😉
Oh, yeah, you're right, atheist can't be moral...
I do not think it's appropriate for Dr Dawkins to say that WLC is immoral (I would have to hear why he said that...) but I'm sure that your "Tu QuoQue" is inappropriate ;)
Hmmm, I didn't say atheists can't be moral. They can be moral subjectively or objectively (which is a rare occurence since I only know of TJump), so by what criteria or why does Mr. Dawkins claim that WLC is immoral? Subjectively, why would he even care?
@@saintronin7633 The Tu quoque argument is ad hominem but you don't speak of Dawnkins in your comment, you're talking about atheist. So, for someone you doesn't know you, it will be understood that the Tu Quoque is reffering to atheist in general.
I don't know exactly why Dawkins said immoral but it seems that WLC position on the Canaanite genocide told in the Bible. And this position seems to horrify deeply Dawkins.
@@kevinbarbe799 mmmm, ok. Guess I should've just left that generalization out of there. Thanks for this lesson.
@@saintronin7633 ;) not a problem ;)
Dawkins is not only wrong about most things outside his narrow scope of expertise, but also a petty little man.
Is there any footage from that debate? I'd love to see how this all panned out.
@@basedshaman6183 Thanks!!
Mad respect for Dr. Craig, I have learned a lot from him, from english language, philosophy, theology, cosmology, logic, rational thinking, argumentation, logical fallacies, history. This man is unique. God bless him.
Well now they've BOTH acknowledged each other's voices hahahah
indeed dawkins said the same about craig. nice to see one thing people can agree on. as my father would say - if you cant say it to someones face, dont say it at all.
Richard Dawkins who never made a single scientific discovery...what a goof!!!!
Peter Jackson Are you sure he did not?
I once read he is one of the greatest biologists of the 21's century.
This title could not be given just because of best selling books.
@@Gegagregacheck what biologist think of Dawkins or watch Dennis noble vs dawkin
How wonderful would it be if Dawkins humbled himself before Christ unto salvation? His testimony would be powerful. Love and pray for our enemies, brothers.
Love it!! Dr. Dickie D is my favorite atheist. So sad is he. But kinda fun to listen to, even though he's dreadfully wrong
Wrong about what?
@@tshirtjay that natural process and random chance created everything. That's one of about 1000 things he is wrong about.
@@Richardcontramundum Well he has said that the evidence leads more towards that then the claim it all made by a god. Im not really convinced you know much of anything about Dawkins.
@@tshirtjay all he does is acknowledge design. But by his own faith believes that design comes from some material means. Yet, no there is NO evidence this. He wants aliens to be the designers because of that were true, just like you do too most likely, if that were true aliens don't care how you live. God the Creator and sustainer and redeemer of all, DOES care. Hence atheistic belief. Those who reject a biblical Creator do so because of their desire to do what they please without consequence. Of course at the end of life truth comes out
@@richardthenryvideos That was a really long winded bald assertion.
The pride is strong with that one
I can see the reason why someone wouldn't want to debate this guy. He sounds like a pompous arse.
No disrespect, but this is quite embarrassing because you could say the same thing in regard to William Lane Craig's fear of debating Jeffery Jay Lowder, who is the best atheist debater there is. If you don't believe me, check out his debates with Phil Fernandes and Frank Turek where he absolutely destroys both of them. Given how good of an atheist debater he is, I can see why William Lane Craig has been ducking a debate with Lowder since the late 1990s.
Dawkins still scared to debate in 2023 atheists must be so embarrassed at Dawkins cowardice I mean it's pretty embarrassing lol.
Does anyone have a link to that debate? I'd love to watch it
It's little wonder that new atheists act the way they do when arrogant defensiveness is the core character of their leader.
I feel bad for Dawkins he has a fear of becoming a Christian because he knows he would be ridiculed and persecuted and I think that is what hardens his heart so much
That's exactly it. He's trying to convince himself God doesn't exist more than anything else
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 That's true. His own writings reveal the internal warfare he experiences knowing the biblical God is true and his desire to reject that truth and convince himself otherwise. I've not found an argument of his logically convincing.
utter nonsense@@larrysnellings7992
@@larrysnellings7992 You know his mind and heart?
@@troig43 The Scripture clearly does; and Romans 1-2 explain it.
Typical atheist interaction.
Dawkins fears the truth, as all God-haters do. Imagine having a career centered around mocking God and His followers. I have prayed for Dawkins. Why? Because I know Jesus loves passion and Dawkins has plenty of it, so Jesus could easily flip him over to our side. Where there is passion, there is hope. St. Bartolo Long go after his soul my dear saint, pursue it like it was your own child facing damnation and win his soul for Christ! Let's all add Dawkins to our Rosary intentions. I would love to see Dawkins in heaven. I would like to stick out my tongue and say "Told you so!" ❤
Nonsense, Dawkins debate him after all and many more religious nutjobs, he never feared them and he isnt even in the top 5% of atheist debaters.
Hitchens while showing early signs of cancer(much coughing and clearly being overweight and half drunken debated top apologist every week at their arenas and once debated Craig, Douglas Wilson and one more apologist in a 1v3 debate). Cant be afraid when you know the truth
You should try to understand that no atheist hates god. You can't hate somthing you don't believe in. Noone hates Santa Claus or the easter bunny either.
@@Weserman75 Everyone has the capacity to know and love God. Those who refuse to love themselves and have rejected the source of all love. Atheists may not call it hate but that's what it is. They hate God and His Divine laws so they try to pretend He doesn't exist, it's comforting for them to live a life of denial of love, truth and hatred of God. Sadly the hatred will be eternal because God exists and they are just foolish men.
Wow, the teenagers atheists are out in force in these comments! 😂
No disrespect, but this is quite embarrassing because you could say the same thing in regard to William Lane Craig's fear of debating Jeffery Jay Lowder, who is the best atheist debater there is. If you don't believe me, check out his debates with Phil Fernandes and Frank Turek where he absolutely destroys both of them. Given how good of an atheist debater he is, I can see why William Lane Craig has been ducking a debate with Lowder since the late 1990s.
as always
Dawkins was a very religious man, his cult-of- personality cult followers were insufferable
Great story 👏
Dawkins is British and they are as about as warm a people as a -50 degrees below zero ice storm.
avian1971 Do you mean British or English?
I lived in England for seven years. What you're saying is not true.
Dawkins is a hypocrite
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Lane Craig omits to point out that he wont debate with anyone who isn't a qualified theologian or bible scholar. This was after he made a fool of himself debating with Sean Carroll
That is some interesting irony i would say. Lame Craig won't debate anyone unless they have a PhD, but somehow feels he is qualified to debate actual cosmologists when he himself has no PhD in any sort of science. He made the mistake by debating Sean Carroll. SC absolutely demolished him.
That rivalry hits different 🔥
Dawkins and most of other so called atheists aren’t serious intellectuals on the question of God…
good joke
@@Saskobestgo and watch the debate between dawkin and Richard Swinburne Mr Swinburne threw that weirdo out of window
Believe me as a Muslim and studying philosphy after listening to arguments of dawkin he is just a bully and ignorant person there are very good atheist in the market that are very formidable like graham oppy but these four horsemen of atheist are militant atheist they' don't prove their pont they just wanna humiliate and bully other person
@@razagamerofficial1859 No disrespect, but if you think Swinburne or Craig are impressive than you are far beyond any help that I can give you. Firstly, Craig and Swinburne are only impressive if you are not a professional philosopher. Majority of their arguments have already been dealt with by atheist philosophers including Jeffery Jay Lowder, Keith Parsons, Paul Draper, John Schellenberg, and Graham Oppy.
@@markfullbrighton5070 how graham oppy respond to klam
We bless God for Prof. William lane Craig
Where does Dawkins get his " immorality at " ??
Empathy. His morality isn’t based on living forever in the afterlife
@@123rockfanthat’s no moral foundation
@@Adrian-si1gz empathy isn’t a moral foundation? Empathy is literally the reason for the “golden rule” in the Bible. Not doing something evil simply because you think you won’t go to heaven is pretty sick
@@123rockfan Based on what? Also no it isn’t the golden rule is based on goodness because it is righteous not because you feel a certain way.
@@Adrian-si1gz I still can’t believe you’re arguing against empathy lmao. Are you a sociopath?
Matt, may I post this on my tiktok with credit given to you?
Dawkins was like hellew
This man is very humble. He is much better then Richard - who Is a mediocre thinker if you are not 15 - and still treats him with respect.
Don’t be stupid, Dawkins is a brilliant scientist, and only a fool could ignore his contribution to the science community.
Harry Mitchell what has he contributed ? He hasn’t done any scientific research in the past 30+ years. His Selfish gene theory is laughed at by real biologist. Show me any recent research papers he has done. What journals were they published in ?
Greg Smith well you clearly know nothing about him, he’s been cited over 20 000 times in scientific journals over the last 7 years...you can find this information on google scholar. Why would you be so keen to ignore his scientific contribution when the evidence of it is right there in front of you? Literally one google search away.
Harry Mitchell he hasn’t done any research in over 30 years. Most scientists think he is a joke. Show me one of these so called cited papers he has done ? When I goggle it it doesn’t show any. Also it depends what journal they were cited in I mean one paper in the journal of Nature is worth more then 20,000 in say The journal Cell.
Greg Smith “Dawkins, R. (2003). "The evolution of evolvability". On Growth, Form and Computers. London: Academic Press.” It’s simply not true that he hasn’t done any research in 30 years. Could it be that you would discredit any research that supports the theory of evolution? Even if hadn’t done research in the last 30 years (not true), that wouldn’t be a good reason to say he was a bad scientist as you’d also be ignoring all the work he did before that. You can also look at how many different journals he’s been cited in. Anyway - if you make false claims, and are shown evidence that directly contradicts those claims, and still hold onto those claims, I’m not sure how useful this TH-cam discussion can be.
I thought Michio Kaku is a believer. He has a video talking about God.
Kaku is a deist
Yes: ripp it out of its context again!
Not only is this arrogant and weak, it's hypocritical for not maintaining an open mind amd its unscientific to not be open to all possibilities and to not dismiss an argument becasue of the person you may dislike. On top of all that, what screams at me the most that he is not as consistent as he is emotional, is the fact that an atheist or materialist wouldn't give a hoot about an historical genocide as it's just about natural sale tion and survival of the fittest WITH no apparent moral cause nor consequential effect 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Richard Dawkins knows with a hook nose that bad, all the saints goin stop and take pictures with him in str8 goofy mood that's why he doing believe in an afterlife
Dawkins sound like a character from Slytherin in this description.
He should stick to what he knows about and that is biology not religion.
Showing atheists are usually rude
Funny, I regularly make the opposite experience.
I am against public debates between science and religion because it makes it seem they're on the same footing. Especially because apologists are debaters but not necessarily scientists, and scientist are for the most past not debaters.
@Prasanth Thomas exactly! So two reasons I think explain my point a little better are: scientists aren't necessarily adept in philosophy but apologists are, some more than others. So the debates quickly devolve into 'facts versus concepts' in the best of cases.
And it gives viewers the notion that religions have undergone the same level of intellectual rigor, research quality, and self-correcting process that science goes through.
Anyone with the link to the debate?
"The Mexicans" scoff scoff
I may agree with Mr Dawkins that there's no God but because of his this type of behavior people like me and Neil De Grasse Tyson never call themselves an atheist.
He must respect a philosopher.
Craig needs to call in to the atheist experience. Interesting indeed!!
Sheldrake had a similar experience
Just arrogance.
Dorkins is pure cringe
Dawkins is not a professional debater he is an evolutionary biologist. The funny thing is Craig is a professional debater and his list of people he refuses to debate is much longer than Dawkins
Of course he has a larger list. What's so funny about that? You said it yourself. He is a professional debater. Let me add that he's extremely famous. Do you think everyone who wants to debate him will eventually do so? However, did he ever attack anyone who he doesn't plan to debate like Dawkins did? Any honest atheist would see this is not a very flattering thing to do.
Billy the 8yo who can use 20 letter words. He gets so excited. Little boy deluded.
I just Dr Craig's voice and manner of speaking. A true gent.
why do craig and hawkins have beef?
michio kaku really doesn't strike me as an atheist. From his previous statements he seems to believe more in a diestic version of god. He often comments on how god would be an excellent mathematician.
He is just deist he is like Einstein he doesn't believe in a personal god
@@razagamerofficial1859 true
Youchube
WLC sounds like officer Barbrady from Simpsons
Dawkins is to logic what Trump is to Democrats. Except destroying logic would be a bad thing.
William Craig is severly dishonest.
Hahaha, what a jerk.
Common Dawkins W.
Gotta love Dawkins for some reason. He feels a bit like that exentric yet cool antihero in a drama. A good drama too.
That's hilarious
Why is Michio Kaku, he believes in God if not the other, which means the Spinoza God or the Christian God.
Dawkins was obviously intimidated. Craig is too thorough and prepared. Craigs direct organized clear points are difficult to dodge.
What an ignorant comment
Typically intelligent people are prone to a more than decent sense of humor. There funny
Ala Dr. Craig. Dawkins? He seems to have exchanged that to double down on pride. Perhaps, perhaps not. Just an observation. God bless this world's messes.
I enjoyed this playful content. Id identify as agnostic atheist.
I mean he s up against dawkins... that s like mike tyson up against a toddler.. no wonder dawkins runs from them xD..
Kinda funny 😂
Hahahahahahaha LOL
Lmao, this section is a joke.
I didn't think Michio Kaku was an atheist. Is he?
Recently in an article i read he argued that science probably confirms God
@@josephirvin56 Interesting. What article was that? I've always thought he was some kind of agnostic.
I am amazed at the postings. It would seem that there must be videos out there that are exactly the opposite of the ones that are easily accessible to me that your followers are referencing. The ones observable to me show Dawkins, who I would not place at the top of the list of Atheist debaters, successfully refuting Craig at every turn. Let's resolve this issue once and for all, both of you, individually or together debate Matt Dillahunty and post the debate for all of your followers to watch. Your god should be supportive of you in this endeavor ...
Matt Dillahunty is just as bad
That's just funny
I even love Dawkins more now. So charismatic
Omegalul.
Why I Won't Debate William Lane Craig - Richard Dawkins
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Isn't Dawkins a PhD? Maybe you should be honest by according him Dr?