Debate: Does the God of the Bible Exist? Elias Ayala vs. Dan Barker

 

Debate: Does the God of the Bible Exist? Elias Ayala vs. Dan Barker

https://www.youtube.com/live/yeucoXcUE7c?si=JV_hU5vZb23MyXnQ

Is Belief in God Rational, Reasonable, and Respectable in a Scientific Age?

 

Is Belief in God Rational, Reasonable, and Respectable in a Scientific Age? 

Is Theistic Belief Rational in a Scientific Age? | William Lane Craig vs. Jeff Hester
https://youtu.be/PXE5lQW5RQw

Is Faith in God Reasonable? FULL DEBATE with William Lane Craig and Alex Rosenberg
https://youtu.be/bhfkhq-CM84

Is Christianity Intellectually Respectable? | Dan Barker Vs Dr Randal Rauser | Debate Podcast
https://youtu.be/HD254JbwwRc

Atheist Dan Barker Debates Michael L. Brown

 

At one of my blogs (HERE) I linked to three debates where I thought Dan Barker lost a debate to a Christian. I linked to them because I've listened to dozens of Dan Barker's debates and I think he wins nearly all of them. So, for a theist to win a debate against Barker is remarkable. Here's a FOURTH debate where I think a Christian won against Dan Barker.

Does the God of the Bible exist?
[Atheist Dan Barker vs. Christian Michael L. Brown]
https://youtu.be/tQtDha3pgOw

SEE ALSO:   Atheist Dan Barker Defeated by Three Christian Theists

Atheist Dan Barker Defeated by Three Christian Theists

 

As a Christian one of my "favorite" atheists is Dan Barker. I kind of sympathize with him because I can relate to some of his past Christian experiences. By God's grace, I've remained a Christian. From a human perspective he seems to be a nice guy. From God's perspective, he's a sinner like any one of us. I've watched dozens of Dan Barker's debates. I'm guessing about 25 or more. I think he has won nearly all of them. But on three occasions I've seen Dan Barker clearly lose a debate. The first was against a fellow Calvinist (Paul Manata). The second was against a Roman Catholic (Trent Horn). The third was against a less than conservative [some would say "progressive"] Christian Christian (Randal Rauser). 

Here's the debate between Calvinist Paul Manata vs. Atheist Dan Barker

In 12 Parts

In 8 Parts

Or HERE

Here's the debate between Roman Catholic Trent Horn vs. Atheist Dan Barker

HERE

Here's the debate between "Progressive" Christian Randal Rauser vs. Atheist Dan Barker

HERE

 UPDATE:

Here's a fourth debate in which Dan Barker was defeated by a Christian theist. It's Barker versus Michael L. Brown

HERE

Debate Between Paul Manata (Christian) vs. Dan Barker (Atheist)

This is one of my favorite debates between a Christian and an Atheist. That's because Paul Manata uses a presuppositional approach to apologetics and I hold to presuppositional apologetics. Also, because Dan Barker is one of my favorite atheistic debaters. I can identify with him since he was a charismatic Christian before his deconversion.

I've listened to many debates Dan Barker has participated in and this is the only time I think he lost the debate. Not only did he lose it, but he lost it badly. Paul Manata crushed Barker. In my opinion, the only weaknesses in Paul's arguments stemmed from his cessationism. Because of his cessationism, he denied that a cat could talk and proclaim to him a Gospel message [which is what Dan conveyed when he relayed what the cat allegedly spoke in Spanish]. This was something which Dan exploited and showed an inconsistency in Paul's belief system. On the one hand he's willing to believe that a donkey spoke to Balaam, yet denied that a cat could speak.

Additionally, Dan was wrong in saying that it's logically impossible for cats to ever speak, since given naturalistic atheism (which usually believes in macro-evolution), cats can evolve to speak, then evolve not to speak, then evolve to speak again, then evolve to fly, surf, dance and sing Karaoke <g>. Dan seemed to be confused about logical possibility/impossibility and physical possibility/impossibility, along with the difference between deductive arguments and inductive arguments.

(https://youtu.be/2tdReme5MFc)

Here's another link to the debate in 12 parts:
http://youtu.be/I6Y8uGdrnvU

Here's another link to the debate in 8 parts:
http://youtu.be/JCfrUqi4f78

Paul is one of the bloggers at Triablogue

Below is Paul Manata's first public debate against Derek Sansone. This debate occurred before  Manata's eventual conclusion that a strong Modal TAG has yet to be formulated. That's why the form of Manata's argument is different in the two debates.

DOES THE CHRISTIAN GOD EXIST? (Paul Manata vs Derek Sansone)
(https://youtu.be/GmZbAkMl5fQ)

OR HERE

(https://youtu.be/anGAazNCfdY)
The classic debate between Greg Bahnsen (Christian) and Gordon Stein (atheist)
"The Great Debate: Does God Exist?," a formal debate between held at the University of California (Irvine) Feb. 11, 1985. 
Bahnsen applied Van Tillian presuppositionalism
(mp3 file here)        (transcript here)