Albert Einstein 'The Harmony of Natural Law Reveals an Intelligence'

This is an excerpt from ​⁠​⁠ Ep. 171: Does God Exist? | The Great Debate

Dr. Alan Shelby, quotes from Albert Einstein while affirming the existence from science and logic, "The harmony of natural law reveals an intellegence with such superiority that compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection." - Albert Einstein

Dr. Shelby shows how it is circular reasoning to believe that we should not be surprised that natural laws exist with predictable consistency because they simply are. Every effect has a cause and the astrophysisists agree that the universe is a highly complex effect demanding a cause greater in power and complexity.

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In February of 1996 the Kansas University Debate Team sponsored a debate on the existence of God. The lecture hall was packed with 850 students in attendance to hear Pastor Alan Shelby debate with Dr. Gordon Stein.

Dr. Stein was one of America’s foremost scholars of atheism. He served as the editor of the American Rationalist, a secular humanist journal, as well as Free Inquiry magazine. He was also the librarian of the Center for Inquiry, which houses the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Dr. Stein had written seven books on atheist history and philosophy, including a well known pamphlet titled “How to Argue with a Theist and Win.”

At the time, Pastor Shelby, now dean of the Living Faith Bible Institute, was serving as the college and young adults pastor at Kansas City Baptist Temple.

This week on the Postscript, we have the privilege of sharing with you a remastered recording of that 1996 debate.

DEBATE FORMAT:
20-Minute Opening Statement affirmative
20-Minute Opening Statement negative
10-Minute Rebuttal affirmative
10-Minute Rebuttal negative
5-Minute Closing affirmative
5-Minute Closing negative
Q&A Forum

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God is light:

1 John 1:5 "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."

God is love:

1 John 4:8 "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."