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Moderator announced for Melbourne

Posted 10 years 9 months ago

Prof Graham Oppy will moderate the discussion between Prof Lawrence Krauss and Dr William Lane Craig in Melbourne.

Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Chair of Council of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, and Secretary of the Glen Waverley Cougars Cricket Club. His books include:The Best Argument Against God (2013), The History of Western Philosophy of Religion (2009), Arguing About Gods (2006), and Ontological Arguments and Belief in God (1996).

Brisbane has sold out

Posted 10 years 9 months ago

1644 people can't be wrong! They'll be treated to two of the great minds of the 21st century.

Tickets are still available for Sydney and Melbourne, and are also selling well.

Sydney has less than 100 student tickets left

Posted 10 years 9 months ago

There are less than 100 student concession tickets left in Sydney. If you want one, buy your Sydney student ticket now!

We offered these to university students since AFES (the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students) have brought Dr William Lane Craig to Australia.

Brisbane will sell out

Posted 10 years 9 months ago

If ticket sales continue at their current rate, the Brisbane event will sell out.

If you want tickets, we suggest you get online and buy your Brisbane tickets now! There are less than 50 tickets left for people wanting a student concession.

Moderators announced for Brisbane and Sydney

Posted 10 years 9 months ago

It's a great privilege to announce that Scott Stephens will moderate the Brisbane discussion, and Dr Rachael Kohn will moderate the Sydney discussion.

Dr Craig's itinerary

Posted 10 years 9 months ago

If you're a fan, here is Dr William Lane Craig's itinerary for his visit to Australia (shown below the video).

Videos of our speakers

Posted 10 years 10 months ago

To give you a taste for our three-part discussion, we've pasted some video of our speakers.

Watch Prof Lawrence Krauss explain his thesis of "a universe from nothing". And see Dr William Lane Craig address the question "can we be good without God?".

Prof Krauss in Perth

Posted 10 years 10 months ago

On Thursday August 22, 2013, Prof Lawrence Krauss will discuss the question Is it reasonable to believe there is a God? in Perth, with local pastor and historian Rory Shiner.

National Science Week

Posted 10 years 11 months ago

The Life, the Universe and Nothing events have been recognised as part of National Science Week.

For information about this, and links to other National Science Week events, please click here.

Meet the organisers

Posted 10 years 11 months ago

Who's behind Life, the Universe and Nothing?

Check out the About us page to find out!

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Speakers

Prof Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss is a renowned cosmologist and science popularizer, and is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare public intellectual, he is also the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and nine books, including the international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek, and his most recent bestseller entitled A Universe from Nothing, now being translated into 20 languages.

Dr William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He and his wife Jan have two grown children. At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.