Primary source
A Debate on the Existence of God
The 1948 BBC radio debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the argument from contingency.
- Author
- Bertrand Russell and F. C. Copleston
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Tradition
- Philosophy
Citation
Bertrand Russell and F. C. Copleston, debate on the existence of God, BBC Third Programme, January 28, 1948, reprinted in Bertrand Russell on God and Religion, edited by Al Seckel, Prometheus Books, 1986.
Where this source is used
- Who created God?The cosmological arguments do not claim that everything needs a cause. They claim that dependent things do, and ask what could end the chain.
- Contingency and creationScience explains one state of the world by an earlier one. It cannot say why there is anything to study, and a self-existent ground answers that better than a brute fact.