Does God exist? (Debate)

We will listen to two short videos from Oxford Union Debates. The first, by Oxford's Peter Millican, is against the existence of God. The second is by Richard Swinburne, a member of the Orthodox Church and Emeritus Professor at Oxford.

Here is a summary of Millican's talk as provided by the OU:
Professor Peter Millican opens by saying he had hoped to find good reasons to believe in God but gave up looking. The theistic hypothesis claims there is an immaterial God who's thought process can act freely of a physical body and that our thinking self can continue without our thinking brains. The human brain has been growing larger as we've evolved as a species and our heads are very large as new-born's making it dangerous for mothers during childbirth, surely if we are to go on thinking after we die we wouldn't need this evolutionary process.

He proceeds to say that every religion has a moral code but this is not surprising as humans are universally moral beings. We are moral because we are a weak species and the only way we can survive is by cooperation in society and we need a morality to be able to do that. Filmed on Thursday 8th November 2012.

Swinburne's talk was filmed on the 7th November 2013 - the debate was about whether religion harms society but Swinburne gave arguments for the existence of God.

All welcome regardless of background, please be mindful and respectful of other participants.