Christopher Hitchens Receives a Sound Trouncing at the Hands of William Lane Craig

I woke up this morning to see an exceptionally encouraging email from a good friend. Apparently, Biola University staged a head to head debate with Atheist champion Christopher Hitchens and Christian apologist William Lane Craig. Hitchens, true to form could only muster his tired mantra that religion is not good and need not appeal to a transcendent deity in order to establish a basis of ethics and morality. As one blogger has noted:

“Craig used cosmological argument, teleological argument, moral argument and the resurrection of Jesus and the immediate experience of God as his main arguments. Craig noted in his closing argument that Hitchens failed to engage any of these arguments throughout the debate. Hitchens resolved back to the argument that morality is not dependant upon God throughout most of the night and that he saw a lack of evidence for a supernatural realm. At the end of the evening, he stated that unbelief will insure you against evil”.

For a fuller report of the debate click here.