ABSTRACT
Professor Craig was trained in public speaking at the excellent program in communication at Wheaton College, and it shows. His address was more orderly, polished, and effectively delivered than Professor Rosenberg. However, Professor Rosenberg relies upon technical terms more frequently, such as his reference to "indeterministic symmetry" and "event horizon", which are likely to leave his lay audience confused. Professor Craig's reasoning is weak in comparison to that of his opponent. He also sets up a straw man in attacking Professor Rosenberg's published arguments for metaphysical naturalism - arguments that have little relevance to the debate here. Therefore religion, in order to be religion, has to start with God and end with God; evidence that runs contrary to that belief must be dismissed or explained by theism's endless supply of mysteries such as Professor Craig's insistence that God may be required to balance good and evil in the world.
