Reconsidering God: The Michael Shermer - Paul Viggiano Debate

Reconsidering God: The Michael Shermer - Paul Viggiano Debate

On September 17th, 2016 two of the finest living thinkers in regard to the contemporary debate over Christian theism met in formal debate at BIOLA University in La Mirada, California.

Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, a regular contributor to Time.com, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. His new book is The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom. He is also the author of The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths; The Mind of the Market, on evolutionary economics, Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design, and The Science of Good and Evil. He has been a college professor since 1979, also teaching at Occidental College, Glendale College, and Claremont Graduate University, where he taught a transdisciplinary course for Ph.D. students on Evolution, Economics, and the Brain. As a public intellectual he regularly contributes Opinion Editorials, book reviews, and essays to the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications. Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, and Larry King Live (but, proudly, never Jerry Springer!). His two TED talks, seen by millions, were voted in the top 100 of the more than 1000 TED talks.
Pastor Paul Viggiano has been the pastor of the Branch of Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church for twenty-seven years. Paul has a Master’s in Apologetics from Biola University, and has been an instructor at various colleges. He attended Talbot Seminary, King’s College Seminary, Bahnsen Theological Seminary, Westminster Seminary, and Fuller Seminary. His recent debates have been with Douglass Hamp on Eschatology and “The Debate Over the Existence of and Attributes of God” with Christians, Sye TenBruggencate and Jeff Durbin opposing Atheists Bruce Gleason, Sean Taylor and Andrew Breeding of The Los Angeles Freethinkers Alliance and Backyard Skeptics. The “Soli Deo Gloria” Radio Program has been broadcast on KKLA in Los Angeles for 18 years; he has been a newspaper columnist and writer but his primary calling is as a Pastor. Paul has lived in the South Bay Area of Los Angeles his entire life. He and his wife, Jennifer, have four children.

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Videography by: Jake Bryant
Produced by: Christopher Neiswonger

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