Debates Archive

David Smart / Ryft Braeloch / Arcanus

This is an archive of completed debates, both formal and informal, that I have engaged in (although at any given time it may also include debates that are currently ongoing).

  • Philosophical Debates
    • Christian Theism Is Illogical
      • (August 12—23, 2009, versus William Brall) This debate arose because I challenged Brall to defend his truth claim that Christian theism is demonstrably illogical. Although the debate was beginning to form itself around the Problem of Evil, Brall inexplicably abandoned it and never returned.
    • Is God Impossible? [PDF]
      • (September 11—25, 2009, versus Saerules) In a few different threads at AtheistForums.org, I had noticed Saerules claiming that God is logically impossible, viz. that certain of his attributes result in logical contra-dictions. She agreed to debate, but ended up quitting because she dis-liked the constraints of formal debate.
    • Atheism and the Problem of Evil: Pt. 1
      • (February 2010, versus TheSkeptic) The first in a series of debates that regard the failure of arguments for atheism which attempt to use the Problem of Evil, any version.
  • Theological Debates
    • On Limited Atonement [PDF]
      • (August 6—27, 2004, versus David Shaw) This was the first formal debate to take place between two channel operators of ChristianDebate on the Dalnet IRC network. Shaw was known as KingJehu and I was known as Ryft. I was a channel operator there from 1998—2007.


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