Randal Rauser

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Society of Edmonton Atheists

How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #6 Which God?; #7 Things we’ve heard before

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The sixth (and seventh) in my ongoing list of truly bad arguments offered by atheists comes courtesy of the Society of Edmonton Atheists website which provided a review of the Edmonton God or Godless debate. This is how it concludes: Overall, many of the arguments were all things we’ve heard before from the religious side. […]

Science is a fallible, flawed, and all-too-human human endeavor (but it is also the best thing going)

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In “God vs. the flying spaghetti monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (Part 1)” I summarized the first part of my address to the SEA. However, the lecture was interwoven with dialogue and so rather than continue on with a summary of the lecture, I’m going to spend some time unpacking some points on the […]

God vs. the flying spaghetti monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (Part 1)

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On the evening of November 1 I was pleased once again to share an evening with the motley crew at the Society of Edmonton Atheists. My topic for the evening was “What hath God to do with the flying spaghetti monster?” I spent the first section of the talk summarizing a range of entities that […]

God vs. the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists

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I have been invited back to speak at the Society of Edmonton Atheists next week. This is a really good group of people and I had a very enjoyable time when I addressed them previously in June. (You can read about my previous experiences here.) So be sure you come on out of you are in the area. The invitation […]

Dogmatic Daniel’s degenerating dialogue

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I had a great dialogue with the Society of Edmonton Atheists. But it seems like my dialogue in the blog with one of the SEA’s chief representatives, Daniel (not to be confused with the character in Elton John’s song) has been degenerating. Daniel initially wrote in the blog: “Randal is a great guy, very intelligent, […]

Debriefing my meeting with the Society of Edmonton Atheists

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Beetle commented: “Hope to see a follow-up post about your talk!” The talk in question was my address to the Society of Edmonton Atheists. And so, as requested: There were about 25 people in attendance, a broad cross section of society from people in their early twenties to senior citizens in their golden years. Daniel […]