GodDebate Dateline 2 Dec 1998 Read the responses . Second, the Star Wars Episode One trailer was released. What one can gather from the combination of these events is that a long time ago in a galaxy far far away no one argued about religion. Friday night well over a hundred atheists, theists and lost-puppy agnostics gathered in Robert A. Welch Hall to watch the University Skeptical Society debate Robert Koons, a UT philosophy professor, and two of his students regarding the evidence of God's existence. The debate would have ended quite quickly with four dead skeptics telekinetically strangled from across the room.
Telekinetic strangulation is extremely good evidence.
Despite Vader's absence, strangulation of the skeptic team was a distinct possibility. Any one of the many atheists in the audience would have been willing to do it. Imagine that your favorite team was constantly striking out in a game of slow-pitch softball, then you more or less understand how the debate went for the skeptics. Instead, the skeptics opened with some self-indulgent public catharsis about the experience of being an atheist. The Jedi Knights have evidence.