Randal Rauser

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Who is Irrational? Some Quick Observations on the Rauser-Smalley Debate

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I’m not going to comment on the entire debate. Instead, I will limit my comments to the historical resurrection of Jesus and related issues. In my debate on the rationality of Christian belief, David C. Smalley asked for historical evidence that Jesus rose from the dead. I provided evidence. I noted that there is no […]

Debating Against God’s Existence: The Devil’s in the Details

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A couple of months ago, Joe Schmid of the Majesty of Reason blog and YouTube channel invited me to participate in a devil’s advocate debate in which I defend atheism and Joe, an agnostic, defends theism. After some twists and turns, it ended up that the debate was hosted by Cameron Bertuzzi of “Capturing Christianity”. […]

Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? A Review

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Dale Tuggy and Christopher M. Date, Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? A Debate. Essential Christian Debates. Apollo, PA: Areopagus, 2020. As the old joke goes, after the Sunday school teacher asks, “Okay children, who left the cap off the glue?” the answer comes back in unison: “Jesus!” You get it, right? Jesus is always the […]

Randal And Samuel Nesan Debrief Our Debate With Tom Jump and Matt Dillahunty

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I recently participated in a tag-team debate on the rationality of theism. I was glad to be invited to participate with Samuel Nesan on the side of light and truth. 🙂 Meanwhile, Tom Jump and Matt Dillahunty were defending … the other side. You can watch the debate here. After the debate, Sam and I […]

If you’re a theist, how would you defend atheism? If you’re an atheist, how would you defend theism?

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That’s the principle behind the devil’s advocate debate I participated in on Saturday, June 13: if you’re a theist, how would you defend atheism? If you’re an atheist, how would you defend theism? In this debate, I defended atheism and Ben Watkins of Real Atheology defended theism. You can be the judge.

Why I Don’t Talk About the Sensus Divinitatis When I Talk About Belief in God

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Alvin Plantinga famously appeals to the existence of a sensus divinitatis, a “sense of the divine”, as the cognitive faculty by which one can form justified and rational belief in God apart from evidence. In this video, I explain why I prefer to argue for properly basic belief in God by way of the more […]

Are young earth creationists the most faithful Bible readers?

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This is the question I debated with David Johnson of the Skeptics and Seekers Podcast. Johnson, an atheist, argued that young-earth creationists are most faithful to the biblical text. I argued quite to the contrary. Which of us is correct? You can find out by reading our two articles and listening to the podcast. It […]