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Justin Schieber vs Randal Rauser — Religious Disagreement and God · 2017
Schieber’s calibrated comparative case outscored Rauser’s thoughtful but insufficiently evidenced appeals to permissive divine reasons and underdetermination.
Justin Schieber: 85 · Randal Rauser: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bart Ehrman vs James White — Does the Bible Misquote Jesus? · 2009
Ehrman narrowly prevailed by proving consequential local misattributions, while White strongly defended recoverable textual and theological continuity.
Bart Ehrman: 88 · James White: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stephen Meyer vs Peter Atkins — Intelligent Design and Science · 2010
Meyer’s qualified causal and methodological case outperformed Atkins’s naturalistic objections, chiefly by sharply separating functional sequence from spontaneous order and origins from later evolution.
Stephen Meyer: 80 · Peter Atkins: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Paulogia — Christianity’s Origins and the Resurrection · 2023
McLatchie wins narrowly by offering the more developed comparative explanation, while Paulogia exposes serious unresolved dependence on Gospel proximity, transmission, and source-specific reliability.
Jonathan McLatchie: 83 · Paulogia: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Swinburne vs Bart Ehrman — God and Suffering · 2009
Ehrman’s victim-centered, natural-evil, and scriptural challenges outweighed Swinburne’s coherent but incompletely warranted account of responsible freedom, sanctity, redemption, and heaven.
Richard Swinburne: 78 · Bart Ehrman: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Michael Nugent — Does God Exist? · 2017
A close contest in which Nugent’s method and targeted rebuttals narrowly outperformed Craig’s structured cumulative case, while both left central grounding questions unresolved.
William Lane Craig: 76 · Michael Nugent: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Randal Rauser vs Dan Barker — Is the Christian God Worthy of Worship? · 2020
Rauser narrowly prevailed by making his Christian framework explicit and conditional, while Barker's victim-centered objections kept the central moral burden unresolved.
Randal Rauser: 83 · Dan Barker: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Shabir Ally — Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2018
Wood’s cumulative historical case leads, while Ally’s critical challenges expose narrative tensions without establishing his conditional survival-and-ascension alternative.
David Wood: 82 · Shabir Ally: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Robert Sapolsky — Do We Have Free Will? · 2023
Sapolsky narrowly prevailed by pressing unchosen causal origins, while Dennett built a strong compatibilist account of evolved, reasons-responsive self-control and humane responsibility.
Daniel Dennett: 82 · Robert Sapolsky: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Paulogia vs Michael Jones — Divine Hiddenness and a Perfectly Loving God · 2019
Paulogia narrowly wins through the one-exception burden and unequal disclosure, while Jones offers calibrated psychological, public-evidence, and postmortem compatibility replies.
Paulogia: 86 · Michael Jones: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Trent Horn vs Raphael Lataster — Does God Exist? · 2016
Horn offers four converging routes to classical theism; Lataster narrowly prevails by preserving premise uncertainty, probabilistic counterevidence, and unresolved supernatural rivals.
Trent Horn: 79 · Raphael Lataster: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Winger vs Paulogia — Evidence for the Resurrection · 2018
Mike Winger and Paulogia dispute whether early resurrection reports, appearances, persecution, and the empty tomb make Jesus’s resurrection the best historical explanation.
Mike Winger: 82 · Paulogia: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.