We all know what happens to those who have the high ground. Dr. Bahnsen ends his closing remarks with the key points being that atheist Gordon Stein doesn’t have a leg to stand on. In fact, he’s stealing the Christian’s leg to be able to claim all his worldview points on. So ends the Great Debate – but wait, there’s more!

00:00 – Introduction
01:35 – The Christian Does What The Atheist Didn’t Do
01:59 – Bahnsen Shows That Stein Couldn’t Back Up His Worldview To Critique
05:07 – The Untouched Transcendental Christian Argument
07:07 – The Unaccountable Naturalistic Worldview Of The Atheist
10:43 – Atheists Can Still Do Good By The Grace Of God
12:04 – The Problem With Convention
13:13 – Matter Matters Because It’s Matter
14:53 – Greatest Happiness Is What Matters With Morality For Atheists
17:21 – Bahnsen Is Not Impressed & The Audience & Atheists Shouldn’t Be Either
19:55 – Conclusion

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Dr. Stein finished the debate in his closing in what appears to be on his back heel. Bahnsen has levied that an atheist caught stealing from the Christian worldview allows for the use of science and morality that an atheist doesn’t have justification for. Stein uses his last words to try to say that an atheist universe allows for the most moral system and a place where men can do science easily.

00:00 – Introduction
02:01 – An Atheist Talks About What’s Possible In An Atheist Universe
02:56 – Evil In An Atheist Universe By
11:48 – The Regularity Of Science In An Atheist Universe
22:15 – Stealing From Worldviews To Be Moral & Do Science
24:46 – Conclusion

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Bahnsen uses the final part of his second rebuttal by letting Stein and the audience know that at some point we have to talk about TAG. The argument that Bahnsen is known for surprised and shocked the atheist who hand waves it away without dealing with any of the points. Maybe Stein can make his final case next week in his closing argument.

00:00 – Introduction
00:15 – Bahnsen’s A Stickler For The Transcendental Argument
02:48 – A Reminder Of TAG
06:14 – The Atheist Tries To Turn The Tables On Christian Logic
11:24 – The Atheist Can’t Have Standards That Don’t Change
13:48 – The Christian Worldview Has More Consistent Consistents
18:23 – Conclusion

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We’re breaking up Bahnsen’s 2nd rebuttal into two sections as we did with Stein, as there are two major sections both have covered. In this first half, Bahnsen makes the case of the use of blind faith of atheist materialism, in which the worldview has no ability to justify the use of logic or of science, as the issues that have been covered in the debate – that of the problem of induction and the non-material nature of logic leads to a denial that they even exist.

00:00 – Introduction
01:26 – Bahnsen Hasn’t Heard Any Justification For An Atheist To The Laws Of Logic
03:35 – The Issue Of Induction To Science Has Gone Unanswered
05:23 – The Future Is Only Probability For Atheists
07:35 – The Atheist’s Blind Faith In Logic & Science
10:55 – Conclusion

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Stein didn’t know what the laws of logic were, knows philosophers don’t agree what they are – but now he’s going to point the finger back at Christians and say they don’t know either. He wants to know how does God think and how do Christians even know that. We Christians have a textbook and meetings every week.

00:00 – Introduction
00:15 – How Does One Know What God Thinks?
04:09 – If You Want A Why Did God Create – Here It Is; But So What?
05:58 – Stein Equivocates On His Terms
10:13 – Stein Doesn’t Think Bahnsen Could Give Laws Of Logic Meaning
12:54 – The Rock Question
15:09 – Conclusion

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Stein has been stymied and this atheist admits he’s trapped when it comes to his inability to justify his use of the laws of logic within the confines of his atheistic materialism worldview. Next week, we’ll look at his attempt to heap that same outcome on Bahnsen and Christianity.

00:00 – Introduction
01:37 – Atheist Can’t Understand Why Christian Wants To Talk About Logic
05:50 – Here’s The Deal
09:05 – The Issue With Falsification – For Atheists
15:30 – The Atheist Doesn’t Want An Explanation For Logic – They Just Want To Be Mad
17:00 – Atheist Admits He’s Trapped By Not Being Able To Explain Logic
18:02 – Conclusion

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A slightly shorter episode due to sickness by the editor but nonetheless still an important part of the Great Debate.

Here, Stein, the atheist admits atheism can’t justify science especially when it comes to induction. This issue that David Hume identified the problem with not having justification that the future will be like the past was identified all the way back during the Enlightenment and those enlightened ones who wanted to shake off God also shook off the justification of the use of science.

00:00 – Introduction
01:19 – How To Deal With Hume’s Issue With Induction
03:40 – Atheists Want To Have Brute Facts Just Because
04:39 – Atheist Admits Atheism Can’t Justify Science
06:29 – Evolution Should Have Us Except Science To Change
09:24 – What Right Do We Have To Assume The Future Will Be Like The Past?
10:53 – Conclusion

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While this is supposed to be Stein’s 2nd cross-examination of Bahnsen, we see Bahnsen causes the atheist to stumble by trying to get him to provide the atheist’s metaphysical basis for anything – here specifically for math and the laws of logic. The Christian has a basis, one that the atheist doesn’t like, but that’s better than nothing or a lack of the ability to provide anything.

00:00 – Introduction
02:09 – Is Math Theistic Or Atheistic
04:30 – Math Is Christian Because It Couldn’t Be Anything Else
06:12 – Delving Further Into This
08:11 – Is No Other Explanation Needed?
09:27 – The Christian’s External Answer That Is Required
11:29 – Unreasonable Demand On The Atheist?
12:31 – How Does An Atheist Justify Non-Material Laws?
14:10 – How Does A Christian Know Logic Reflects The Mind Of God?
19:06 – Atheist Doesn’t Buy, Or Understand
20:34 – Atheists Don’t Desire Metaphysical Proof Of Other Concepts They Agree With

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