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Dr. Greg Bahnsen became known as the "man atheists fear most".<ref>[http://simpleapologetics.com/thegreatdebate.html The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein]</ref> | Dr. Greg Bahnsen became known as the "man atheists fear most".<ref>[http://simpleapologetics.com/thegreatdebate.html The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein]</ref> | ||
This is because [[Harvard]]-educated [[Michael Martin|Dr. Michael Martin]] was scheduled to debate Bahnsen in 1994 but pulled out of the debate at the "eleventh hour" according to a press release at the time.<ref>[http://simpleapologetics.com/thegreatdebate.html The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein]</ref><ref>[http://trueforms.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/greg-bahnsen-vs-michael-martin-opening-remarks/ Greg Bahnsen vs. Michael Martin: The Debate That Never Was (1/2)]</ref> | This is because [[Harvard]]-educated [[Michael Martin|Dr. Michael Martin]] was scheduled to debate Bahnsen in 1994 but pulled out of the debate at the "eleventh hour" according to a press release at the time.<ref>[http://simpleapologetics.com/thegreatdebate.html The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein]</ref><ref>[http://trueforms.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/greg-bahnsen-vs-michael-martin-opening-remarks/ Greg Bahnsen vs. Michael Martin: The Debate That Never Was (1/2)]</ref> | ||
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Dr. Greg Bahnsen (September 17, 1948 – December 11, 1995) was a 20th-century Christian apologist who was particularly known for his Christian presuppositional apologetics.
Bahnsen is known most for his defense of the transcendental argument for the existence of God.
Greg Bahnsen vs. Gordon Stein debate
See also: Greg Bahnsen vs. Gordon Stein debate
In 1985, the Christian apologist Greg Bahnsen and the atheist Gordon Stein had a debate at the University of California, Irvine regarding the positions of atheism and theism. Bahnsen was particularly known for his Christian presuppositional apologetics.
In debates with atheists, presuppositional apologists will frequently ask their debate opponents the foundations/rationale of their various assumptions, beliefs and assertions and show logical inconsistencies in the opponents worldview. In the Bahnsen-Stein debate, one of the key moments of the debate was when Stein was asked to account for the existence of the laws of logic in an atheist worldview (see: Atheism and logic),[3]
John Frame wrote regarding the debate in which Dr. Bahnsen used the transcendental argument for the existence of God that "In the end, Stein walked and talked like a broken man."[4]
The Greg Bahnsen-Gordon Stein debate was recorded and transcribed and was dubbed "The Great Debate".[5][6]
Michael Martin backing out of his scheduled debate with Bahnsen
See also: Atheism and cowardice and Greg Bahnsen and debate and Bahnson-Martin debate press release
Dr. Greg Bahnsen became known as the "man atheists fear most".[7] This is because Harvard-educated Dr. Michael Martin was scheduled to debate Bahnsen in 1994 but pulled out of the debate at the "eleventh hour" according to a press release at the time.[8][9] The press release at the time said that Dr. Martin offered ruses on why he pulled out and didn't want the scheduled debate recorded but the real reason was that "...Michael Martin is afraid that he will be publicly humiliated just as his friend and fellow atheist, Dr. Gordon Stein, was...".
Martin later released his transcendental argument for the non-existence of God (TANG) in 1996 which was rebutted by Christian apologists.[10] Martin released his TANG argument after Bahnsen died.
External links
- Brief Biography of Dr. Greg Bahnsen
- Dr. Greg Bahnsen by Answers in Genesis
- Articles by Greg Bahnsen
- Debate between Dr. Greg Bahnsen and atheist Dr. Gordon Stein (full transcripts and audio recording of the entire debate)
- The Great Debate: Does God Exist? Dr. Greg Bahnsen versus Dr. Gordon Stein - YouTube video
- Essays by Dr. Greg Bahnsen and other Reformed Christian apologists
See also
Notes
- ↑ Bahsen at the Stein debate by John Frame
- ↑ The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein
- ↑ "The Great Debate: Does God Exist?" or The Great Debate: Does God Exist? (YouTube video) - Dr. Greg Bahnsen versus Dr. Gordon Stein - Audio of a formal debate between Christian Greg Bahnsen and skeptic Gordon Stein at the University of California, Irvine.
- ↑ Bahsen at the Stein debate by John Frame
- ↑ The Great Debate: Does God Exist? Dr. Greg Bahnsen versus Dr. Gordon Stein
- ↑ The Great Debate: Does God Exist? Dr. Greg Bahnsen versus Dr. Gordon Stein
- ↑ The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein
- ↑ The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein
- ↑ Greg Bahnsen vs. Michael Martin: The Debate That Never Was (1/2)
- ↑ http://www.reformed.org/apologetics/index.html?mainframe=/apologetics/martin_TAG.html