0:00 Preparatory Remarks…CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS: The Difference Between Proof & Persuasion
2:02 The Aim Of & Assessment Of Your Apologetical Effort: It’s Our Job To Close The Opponent’s Mouth & GOD’s Job To Open Their Hearts…GOD’s Grace…Notch On The Belt Attitude…Humble Boldness
4:59 Preparatory Remark: Proving GOD’s Existence
5:25 PROOF THEORY BACKGROUND…Four Ways Of Proving Things: 1) RATIONALIST APR 2) EMPIRICIST APR 3) PRAGMATIST APR 4) TRANSCENDENTAL APR
6:03 1) RATIONALIST APR – Something Is Proven When It Uses Clear & Distinct Ideas In A Logical Fashion (Stop & Think About It)
6:43 Continental Rationalism: A retrospective category used to group together certain philosophers working in continental Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries-Descartes (A Dualist), Spinoza (Pantheist) & Leibniz (Atomist…Monad)
8:34 2) EMPIRICISM – We Know Things Through Our Senses/By Observation (Go Look & See)
9:58 The Problem With EMPIRICISM (TPW Cognitive Psychology)…If All I Know Are My Sensations, Then How Can I Be Sure That There’s An External World That Corresponds To Them…John Locke…George Berkeley (Subjective Idealism)…David Hume
11:35 Causality/Causation…Succession…Personal Identity
13:18 David Hume’s Frustration…SUMMARY OF EMPIRICISM & RATIONALISM
14:14 3) PRAGMATISM – The Only Thing That Matters Is Adjusting To Your Environment & Being Successful At Life (Truth Is Simply A Matter Of What Works)
15:45 The Problem With PRAGMATISM…Successful At What?…”Christian Pragmatism”
16:46 SUMMARY OF PRAGMATISM…You Can’t Make Pragmatic Judgments Without The Traditional/Tough Questions Being Answered
18:11 GLB Reviews The Arguments He Will Not Use To Prove GOD Exists…(Soviet Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin)
19:29 4) PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD TRANSCENDENTALLY…A Transcendental Proof Asks, What Are The Preconditions Of Intelligibility? What Must Be True, For Something To Make Sense?…THE CHECKLIST
20:41 A TRANSCENDENTAL PROOF ARGUES FROM THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE CONTRARY…The Transcendentals Of Logic…Foreshadows Other Transcendental Arguments
21:37 GLB Demonstrates The Transcendental Argument With Regard To The Laws Of Logic, As Used In His Debate With Gordon Stein….eg Numbers
25:18 Summary Of Proof Theory
25:48 SETUP TO PROVING GOD’s EXISTENCE…Uniformity Of Nature (Stubbing The Toe; Your Name; Math; Baking)
29:55 THE CAUSAL/INDUCTIVE PRINCIPLE – Placing Atheism & Christianity Side-By-Side To Ask, Which Worldview Provides The Preconditions For Rationality, Intelligibility, & Science? (The Space Program)
31:59 Causation Is Not Mere Succession Of Events (Why Do Eggs Fry?)…David Hume (Causation Is Necessary Succession Of Events)
33:43 Bertrand Russell On Induction…You Can’t Prove Induction By Appealing To Experience…ARBITRARINESS
39:07 GLB’s Summary: ONLY THE CHRISTIAN WV PROVIDES THE PRECONDITIONS OF INTELLIGIBILITY…GOD’s EXISTENCE IS THE PRECONDITION FOR ALL REASONING
42:25 RECAP…THE CHECKLIST
43:30 THE PROBLEM OF EVOLUTION (Stumbling Block & Cultural Opposition To The Christian Faith)
45:25 The Control & Bias Of The Educational System
47:52 eg The State Of Louisiana
49:17 Origins Of Man & Religion Dispute…Theoretical Views
50:42 Guns Loaded…What’s Sauce For The Goose Is Sauce For The Gander…EVOLUTION ISN’T A SCIENTIFIC THEORY; IT’S A PHILOSOPHY!
52:40 *LINK BELOW TO ARTICLE
54:04 THE MAIN THING YOU’VE GOT TO GET ACROSS TO PEOPLE…SHOOT THE BEAR OVER AGAIN…
55:08 Some Of The Problems In The Evolutionary Theory…Book, MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGES TO THE NEO-DARWINIAN INTERPRETATION OF EVOLUTION
59:00 Michael Denton, Book, EVOLUTION: A THEORY IN CRISIS…eg Las Vegas
1:01:42 Fred Hoyle, Book, EVOLUTION FROM SPACE…eg Enzyme
1:02:29 Zuckerman, Book, BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER…eg Missing Link
1:03:36 Stephen J. Gould (Paleontologist) Punctuated Equilibrium Fiasco
1:05:48 Natural Clocks
1:07:56 GLB Demonstrates, IT’S PHILOSOPHICAL SILLINESS TO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION…The Human Eye; Irreducible Complexity; Sex
1:12:07 SEX
1:14:19 Compare The Worldviews…WHY? & HOW?…Disorder To Order; Non-Living To Living; Inorganic To Organic; Non-Intelligent To Intelligent; Inarticulate To Articulate; MORALITY…
1:17:55 The Cheating Slice Of Evidence
1:19:45 CONCLUSION…Quotes by John Tyndall & Stephen J. Gould Affirming The Theory Of Evolution As Philosophy & Not A Scientific Theory…
1:22:25 Quote From Louis Venour-Biological Society Of Strasbourg, “Evolution Is A Fairy Tale For Grown Ups. This Theory Has Helped Nothing In The Progress Of Science, And Is Useless.”
1:22:50 GLB’s Closing Remarks (The True Use Of Evolution)…Original Version Cuts Off Comments
Another series of lectures delivered at a “Life Preparation Conference.” Dr. Bahnsen offered direct answers for specific apologetic problems, beginning with a very helpful “checklist of defects” to look for in the objections used by unbelievers.
Hi-Res Checklist Here: https://imgur.com/gallery/mS3KdMU
