Steelmanning, Strawmanning, and Supermanning

 

Steelmanning, Strawmanning, and Supermanning

 https://randalrauser.com/2022/03/steelmanning-strawmanning-and-supermanning/

 

 

 

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

The Historicity of the Resurrection | Dr. Randal Rauser vs Godless Engineer

 

The Historicity of the Resurrection | Dr. Randal Rauser vs Godless Engineer
https://youtu.be/8781a1zPN28

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

Apologetics Methodology Dialogue with Dr. James White, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie, Dr. Randal Rauser & Dr. Richard Howe

 [APOLOGETICS] DIALOGUE |
Dr. James White, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie, Dr. Randal Rauser & Dr. Richard Howe

https://youtu.be/35ixieEBZhU

Nontraditional Arguments for Theism with Joe Schmid

I discovered a brilliant agnostic named Joe Schmid when he debated Randal Rauser where both of them played Devil's Advocate for the view they don't hold. So Schmid as an agnostic argued for theism and Rauser who is a professed Christian argued for atheism. In the following videos Joe Schmid lists and explains some nontraditional arguments for theism. Many of them are consistent with presuppositionalism and other apologetical methods like classical apologetics.

Nontraditional Arguments for Theism (Part 1/2)

https://youtu.be/8V7TvkjXW3Q

Nontraditional Arguments for Theism (Part 2/2)

https://youtu.be/syW37-XsUe8

 New Atheism and its Critics

https://youtu.be/1w6MRwyEsjQ

Joe Schmid's YouTube channel: Majesty of Reason


Joe Schmid's Devil's Advocate debate with Randal Rauser:

GOD DEBATE: Randal Rauser the Atheist vs Joe Schmid the Theist

https://youtu.be/68FxtG49ngY

I recommend reading the critiques of Randal Rauser's progressive version of "Christianity" by the late Steve Hays and other bloggers at Triablogue: https://triablogue.blogspot.com/search/label/Randal%20Rauser