62 Guest author David Beck discusses his new book "Does God Exist?" [Part 1]

<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/51/52/8f/jwalker55293/3000x3000_15457775.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br /><p><br></p><br><p>On this two-part episode of Apologetics Profile, we talk with Christian philosopher <strong>Dr. W. David Beck</strong> about his latest book<strong> <em>Does God Exist? A History of Answers to the Question</em></strong>. In his book he looks at the historical back-and-forth of four fundamental arguments used in defense of God’s existence, the cosmological, teleological, moral, and ontological arguments. It is a condensed historical, theological and philosophical survey of the principal contributors of each argument from both a materialist and religious point of view. </p><br><p>In his classic apologetic work <em>Mere Christianity, </em>scholar, author, and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis observes that “atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. <em>Dark </em>would be a word without meaning.”</p><br><p>That the universe exists is something upon which we can all universally agree. As the Bible says, the heavens are telling of the glory of God, and the expanse shows forth His handiwork. God’s divine workmanship are known throughout the world in all times and in all places. </p><br><p>But for the skeptic, what best explains <em>why</em> the universe exists? Agnostic cosmologist Dr. Sean Carroll suggests in a 2018 post on his blog <em>Preposterous Universe </em>that “The demand for something more — a reason why the universe exists at all — is a relic piece of metaphysical baggage we would be better off to discard.”</p><br><p>That statement of course is a piece of metaphysics itself, p<em>hilosophy </em>in the strict sense of the word, not science. An attempt to make the question go away, does not finally address the question of why there is something rather than nothing. </p><br>