Dr Joanna Collicutt McGrath | God DOES Exist

Dr Joanna Collicutt McGrath gives her argument for the existence of God.

She starts by addressing the question, what do we mean by God? She goes on to talk about her personal experiences with religion and atheism, and how Christianity is a type of humanism as well as theism.
Filmed on Thursday 8th November 2012

ABOUT DR JOANNA COLLICUTT MCGRATH:
Psychologist of religion & Anglican priest at Oxford; co-author of 'The Dawkins Delusion?'

ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY:
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[TheLordHighNoob]

There is a huge effing difference in debate between "Does God exist" and "I believe in God."

[tulliusagrippa]

Dr McGrath does not address the subject of the debate. She multiplies words with zero factual content.

[ian.ion.]

To save 12 minutes 54 seconds of your life, in summary: "I have no rational arguments, here's my personal story on my personal faith."

[rywilk]

"I was going to begin my talk with quoting my Cambridge-educated daughter"

Wow ok.

[dothedeed]

So basically she felt lost and just grabbed on to something, anything, to feel purposeful. 

[dwolfcoach]

That does it, I'm getting my Doctorate in logical fallacy from Thor University's theological academy. Then I'll be able to use fuzzy, falsely consoling, non-sequiturs to make a completely vacuous point-and collect a hefty check to sound smart.

[bronislawbuturla]

if god existed he would ask her to stop dressing like that when she talks about him ..

[Gumikrukon]

I appreciate the fact that she thought that she didn't need arguments.

[amonra]

The worst errors to make in any type of presentation: Hold ground, waggle while standing, read from a paper, don't make eye contact and use a still sleepy voice.
How can she really be a psychologist, without knowing these?

[turbopro]

@6:00 "i started to get an inkling, that the meaningful question to ask might not be, do i believe in god, but does god believe in me..."

seriously!?!

[j.d.turvey]

I like this lady and I admire her courage in delivering a fine speech, unfortunately the content is WANK.

[tracer]

Just imagine what this audience is actually thinking while they politely applaud her 'finish'.

[hartland]

Wow this was pathetic, there were no persuasive arguments she just talked about herself. Absolutely humiliating.

[somesweetdreamm]

If no argument was made in the video (which I agree, there wasn’t) then perhaps everyone in this comment section should find a video where actual arguments are being made if that’s what they are looking for. But that isn’t what they’re really looking for, is it? Lol. It begs the question why someone would even click on a video with this title in the first place if they are not open to having their mind changed or, at the very least, to learn about why religion would matter to some people. This video wasn’t titled, “Science that proves the existence of God”… just simply “God exists”. It seems to me that this was intended to be an academics testimony, not an actual argument formulated to prove the existence of God in the domain of science. No matter the intention, people should really stop with the ad-hominem attacks in the comments. That doesn’t help disprove the existence of God—but it does show that some atheists are no less pretentious than the religious.

[supersonic]

Same here. There was a good television programme concerning this on a few years ago (I think its on youtube). C.S Lewis battled with himself about whether there was a God every night for a long time, until one night he realised there must be a God, fell to his knees and prayed.He summed up why he chose Christianity well, stating that every religion is a myth, except Christianity, which is a true myth.

[alexweirdyoung]

You can not claim to be "highly ambivalent about institutional religion" while wearing a clerical collar and expect to be taken seriously.

[iam]

How to checkmate believers...1. If their particular god did not create evil, then it is not the creator of everything and thus not a god.

[PlainSpeakingMinistries]

God is not what I thought. The fear of the Lord, (I need to know who God is so that I consider him with the gravity that is due) is the beginning of wisdom.

[archangecamilien]

8:30 I think I heard Bart Ehrman or someone explains that the word "atheist" wasn't used in the same way by the Romans...just those who rejected their gods or something for some scandalous views...

[PhoenixMarco]

Boy, which comment do I reply to? Harris, Krauss both got their butt handed by Craig. Dawkins, Shermer both got their behinds kicked by Lennox. Now I don't know who PZ is, and I don't think I have ever watched Baker in a debate, but If you think these guys are great thinkers, you seriously need to take one or two philosophy classes.