On June 3rd, 2017 there was a debate between Dr. Sonny Hernandez and atheist Dan Barker in Houston, Texas.
The topic is on the question: Does God Exist?
Here’s the debate:
Personally my favorite debate that I like with Dan Barker is Paul Manata’s Classic Debate with Barker.
For those who want to understand more the apologetics’ methodology of Dr. Sonny Hernandez check out our Ultimate Collection of Free Presuppositional Apologetics Lectures (VanTillian).
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Thanks for the reblog!
Good stuff. Enjoyable, upsetting, and sad at the same time. Barker started off with, “Hundreds of millions of good people on this planet lead happy, moral, charitable, loving, purposeful lives without believing in a god.” He has a problem right off the bat with labeling some people as “good.” He’s employing a standard which has no basis.
Tom you hit it on the nail: “He’s employing a standard which has no basis.” Not only does it not have any basis it is also not true that people are good…we are all sinful! Good observation that Barker has no basis! Sounds like you’re a Presuppositionalist =)
RE: Sounds like you’re a Presuppositionalist =)
Next thing you’ll have me checking the library database for books by Van Til! Just kidding! If it’s more complex than Theology 101 I can’t wrap my head around it.
…Well, my curiosity got the best of me and, guess what, the library does have Van Til’s “Christian Apologetics.” But I see the book I placed on hold has arrived; “Washington’s Immortals : the Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution.” I’ll leave the Theology 401 stuff to you pastors. And, yes, no one is good just like no souls are “immortal” in the sense that this author is using.
Dan Barker’s entire argument was, “I don’t like God, so he doesn’t exist.”
A question that might have worked would be, “When a judge convicts a criminal, he judges whether or not a law was broken. When Dan Barker judges God for things he doesn’t like, which law would you say God is breaking? Is this law universal? How do you account for this immaterial, unchanging, universal law in a material universe that is always changing.”
Brother, that is a very good way of putting it; it is helpful in phrasing the question that way since it shows the issue at hand
“Dan Barker’s entire argument was, I don’t like God, so he doesn’t exist.'”
How is this not a strawman?
What other argument did Dan Barker use?
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