[ The link to the video can be found on the right side of the Video Links section. The whole video is worth watching if you have time, there is simply too many points to publish. ]
On talking about the atheistic view...
5:00 - The new atheist's books... when they say religion is bad, that is not a new thesis... What is new about the books is they don't just say religion is bad, respect for religion is bad. If you counsel one section of your population to belittle and disdain... to show no respect for the beliefs of this group of people... that is a recipe for social disaster if anybody actually takes the advice.
On talking about the third reason, Social, for believing/disbelieving in God...
8:50 - ...the Sociology of Knowledge says you tend to find most plausible, the beliefs of people...the people that you need, and people that you're depended on, people who are in the community you're in or want to be part of, their beliefs tend to be plausible than the beliefs of people who are in communities you don't like, or aren't interested in, or don't want to be a part of... you believe what you believe because of the social support.
On talking about agnostics asking for rational/empirical proof for God, there is no need to believe or there is no God...
23:45 - ...that's a big leap of faith... If you have a creator God... why should you assume that God would actually be someone or something so inside the world that he can be provable? It may be right and you may be wrong, but you have to admit its a leap of faith. You're actually assuming something about the nature of God in order to say that he doesn't exist... C.S. Lewis wrote an article that says, "If there is a God that created the world and created us, you don't relate to God the way a person in the first story relates to the man in the second story. Rather you would relate to God the way Hamlet relates to Shakespeare. If Hamlet wants to prove there is a Shakespeare, he's not going to be able do that in a lab... The only way he's ever going to know anything about Shakespeare, is if Shakespeare writes something about himself into the play. And what that would mean is if there is a creator God, there probably should be evidence. But the idea that you can't believe in Him until someone proves Him is actually an assumption, a faith leap about the existence or the nature of God before you are even willing to admit He is there." And besides that you cant prove anything... didn't you take philosophy 101? ...you can hardly prove anything and yet you live your life on the basis of that. So should you say to God, "If you're there you prove yourself to me, or I have no responsibility to you" ?
on talking about God making sense of the universe the way it is now based on the fine tunings...
29:20 - A guy like Richard Dawkins very rightly says, "That is not proof... What if at the Big Bang there were a million parallel universes, infinite universes created at once... and we just happen to be in the one? That doesn't prove God." And he's right [here he goes into the Alvin Plantinga rebuttal]...Though the fine tuning of the universe does not prove the existence of God, if there is a God it makes sense, if there is not a God then it's a long shot.
on talking about the probability of faith and God...
39:00 - ...weak faith in a strong object is infinitely better than a strong faith in a weak object because its the object of your faith, not the strength of your faith that saves you.
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