17 January 2010
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In the Fall of 2003, Robert Bowman and Edward Tabash debated the topic: Does God Exist? This was held at Cypress College in California.
About Robert Bowman
The founder of CBA, Robert M. Bowman, Jr., is an award-winning Christian author and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in apologetics, biblical studies, and related subjects since 1992. In the 1980s he was a researcher working with the late Walter Martin at the Christian Research Institute (CRI). Since then he has worked with a number of apologetics ministries, including the Atlanta Christian Apologetics Project, Watchman Fellowship, and Apologetics.com. Rob is currently an instructor in the M.A. in Christian Apologetics program at Biola University, where he teaches courses on religious cults and on biblical apologetics. He holds a Master’s degree in biblical studies and theology from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Rob has published over two dozen articles in such periodicals as the Christian Research Journal, Moody Monthly, Pastoral Renewal, and Areopagus Journal. He has also authored or co-authored nine books, including two that won the Gold Medallion.
Rob is also well known from Christian radio, having been a regular on the nationally syndicated “Bible Answer Man” program (1990-91) and the host of “Truth Talk” in Atlanta (1994-96) and the “Apologetics.com Radio Show” in Los Angeles (2002-2003).
About Edward Tabash
Edward Tabash is a constitutional and civil rights lawyer in Beverly Hills, California, who has published several items for the Secular Web's Modern Library. He graduated from UCLA in 1973, magna cum laude. He graduated from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1976 and was admitted to the California Bar that same year.
He has chaired the National Legal Committee of Americans United for Separation of Church and State since 1995. Since 1981, he has been the most publicly active man in the abortion rights movement in California. He has argued and won before the California Supreme Court. He sits as a part time judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court system. He has successfully represented Secular Humanism in public debates against three major Christian philosophers, Peter VanInwagen, Greg Bahnsen, and William Lane Craig.
Since 1990, he has been a member of the First Amendment Committee of the ACLU of Southern California. In 1999, he presented the New York Legislature with a comprehensive First Amendment argument as to why a proposed blasphemy law was unconstitutional. His articles and letters defending the atheist/skeptic point of view have been published by the Los Angeles Times. In election year 2000, he finished second out of four in a primary for the California State Assembly. He was the only open atheist to be a major contender for a state legislative seat in the United States during that election cycle. He currently chairs the Center for Inquiry West.







