Randal Rauser

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God or Godless

Stephen and Steven both review “God or Godless”

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Stephen’s review Stephen Bedard at “Hope’s Reason” reviewed God or Godless. You can read it here. Stephen is a Christian apologist, and director of “Hope’s Reason Ministries”. (Along the way he also acquired three Master’s degrees and is currently working on a DMin.) You might think that means that Stephen is automatically going to side […]

A review of “God or Godless”, inerrancy, and begging the question

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The “Christian Apologetics Alliance” website just published a review of God or Godless. The review is written by a fellow named Clinton Wilcox (for more on Clinton click here). It would seem that Clinton liked the book for he finds it to provide a good overview to the twenty topics it addresses, and he appreciates […]

11. Loftus and Rauser talk natural theology and the Trinity (The Loftus Rauser Road trip Part 4)

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On June 3-5, 2013 John Loftus and I engaged in three debates on the existence of God based on our book God or Godless. Along the way I pulled out my microphone and engaged John in several conversations for The Tentative Apologist Podcast. In this fourth segment of the series, recorded as we were driving north […]

On atheism, morality, and the nature of the debate: A reply to Jeff

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Today one of my readers, Jeff, took me to task for my argument in God or Godless in favor of the thesis “If There Is No God, Then Everything Is Permitted”. He asserted that this argument was “very crude and even reckless–not to mention false–and far beneath what I would have expected from you.” (You can see […]

6. The Loftus Rauser Road trip: Conversations on God (Part 3)

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Here’s the third conversation I had with John Loftus on our God or Godless Alberta Tour. This one ranges widely over several topics so I’m not going to try and summarize it all here. Needless to say I come out as the winner each time! (Sorry to break the dramatic tension without warning, but I […]

5. The Loftus Rauser Road Trip: Conversations on God (Part 2)

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This is the second podcast conversation from the Loftus/Rauser God or Godless Tour of Alberta. In this episode the setting shifts to a Starbucks coffee shop as John and I discuss the question of free thought. Just what does it mean to be a free thinker? Can a free thinker be part of a wider […]

The Great Plains Skeptic reviews “God or Godless”

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GPS says the book is a “great idea”. In addition, “John did a very nice job” in choosing topics and had “clear and sharp arguments”. By contrast, GPS struggles to say something nice about me but finally comes up with the milquetoast compliment that I “score some points by not relying on a literal interpretation […]

4. The Loftus Rauser Road Trip: Conversations on God (Part 1)

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On June 3, 2013 while standing on a rainy sidewalk outside Renfrew Baptist Church in Calgary, Alberta, I met John Loftus for the first time. Folks are surprised to learn that prior to that day I had never spoke on the phone with John, much less met him in person, and yet we had written […]

3. God or Godless? The Loftus/Rauser Edmonton Debate

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On June 5, 2013 I met with John Loftus for the final night of debate on our God or Godless Tour of Alberta, Canada. The venue was Greenfield Baptist Church in Edmonton, Alberta. The event was moderated by Myron Penner, author of The End of Apologetics (Baker, 2013). Myron also offered a response to the debate. The […]

2. God or Godless? The Loftus/Rauser Calgary Debate

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Though I co-wrote the book God or Godless with John Loftus, I never met him until June 3, 2013. On that day we met for the first time in Calgary Alberta to debate the topic of our book. Does God exist? Should we go with God or Godless? The debate and ensuing conversation were lively and at […]