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You tube clip

Plato’s Forms

Three minute Philosophy – background, change / permanence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNjmPyHIoOc

The Cave

Three minute Philosophy – Cave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q34MHpBu0Oo

Peter Dobbing explains the allegory of the cave using two cartoon figures having a conversation: scroll down to item 10 on the right hand menu (9 mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9rllfokNzk&list=PLC8C5EFD053FE2E8A

Aristotle

Three minute philosophy – Aristotle (4 mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbgHbzrL3d0

Goodness of God

A two minute defence of God’s goodness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfd_1UAjeIA

Cosmological Argument

For a brilliant introduction (peter Dobbing) to the cosmological argument (Aquinas) got to (9 mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CVq2m_rhbg

Three min philosophy – Aquinas Five Ways (4 mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz_iGGGMddw

Debunking the three classic arguments for God. (follow Cosmological argument 6.16 mins in for 5 mins) NB This film uses the f-word so may be unsuitabe for class use, but is very clear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRulK_ePLKM

Teleological Argument

Peter Dobbing overviews the Telologcial Argument – very clear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5rCiJMB-Fk

Keith Ward considers arguments against the existence of God and considers the origins in Aristotle of the arguments from design and the physical nature of the world. Quantum physics points us to a world much stranger than Quantum Physics suggests.  The surplus intelligence argument from the existence of consciousness is considered – why an appreciation of beauty? (8 mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8uuSGa8rM8

Teleological argument debunked (rudely with the f-word) first 6mins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRulK_ePLKM

Moral Argument Introduction

Peter Dobbing explains the moral argument in another brilliantly clear clip (right hand menu). (9 mins)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdTC6YhACQ&list=PLC8C5EFD053FE2E8A

William Lane Craig explains the moral argument in two minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evcg_UtnJfI

Moral Argument

Four short films on the moral argument includes euthyphro’s dilemma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCinpJLxMHo&list=PLBA9DC2EC053771E5

Problem of Evil

Peter Dobbing introduces the Problem of Evil (9 mins). Highly recommended. Scroll down the right hand menu to find the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbphE23XjIw&list=PLC8C5EFD053FE2E8A

Richard Swinburne considers why God allows suffering (8mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hwuUBFRTus

Religion and Science

Can something come from nothing?

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/07/how-the-universe-appeared-from-nothing.html

How big is the Universe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1bWKZFP2Tc

Peter Dobbing reviews all the issues in this animated film. (9 mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9h5ZtiD-5U&list=PLC8C5EFD053FE2E8A

Infinity – Horizon 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlFkLz_LmE4

(9.50mins, clips either side also available)

Irreducible complexity

In Behe’s own words:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html