Recently published transcript-grounded debate scorecards. https://slugfester.com/ 2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 https://slugfester.com/debate/schieber-rauser-religious-disagreement-2017/ 2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00

Schieber’s calibrated comparative case outscored Rauser’s thoughtful but insufficiently evidenced appeals to permissive divine reasons and underdetermination.

https://slugfester.com/debate/ehrman-white-bible-misquote-jesus-2009/ 2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00

Ehrman narrowly prevailed by proving consequential local misattributions, while White strongly defended recoverable textual and theological continuity.

https://slugfester.com/debate/meyer-atkins-intelligent-design-science-2010/ 2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00

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.

https://slugfester.com/debate/mclatchie-paulogia-christianity-resurrection-2023/ 2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00

McLatchie wins narrowly by offering the more developed comparative explanation, while Paulogia exposes serious unresolved dependence on Gospel proximity, transmission, and source-specific reliability.

https://slugfester.com/debate/swinburne-ehrman-god-suffering-2009/ 2026-10-08T12:00:00-04:00

Ehrman’s victim-centered, natural-evil, and scriptural challenges outweighed Swinburne’s coherent but incompletely warranted account of responsible freedom, sanctity, redemption, and heaven.

https://slugfester.com/debate/craig-nugent-god-existence-2017/ 2026-10-08T12:00:00-04:00

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.

https://slugfester.com/debate/rauser-barker-god-worthy-worship-2020/ 2026-10-08T12:00:00-04:00

Rauser narrowly prevailed by making his Christian framework explicit and conditional, while Barker's victim-centered objections kept the central moral burden unresolved.

https://slugfester.com/debate/wood-ally-resurrection-2018/ 2026-10-08T12:00:00-04:00

Wood’s cumulative historical case leads, while Ally’s critical challenges expose narrative tensions without establishing his conditional survival-and-ascension alternative.

https://slugfester.com/debate/dennett-sapolsky-free-will-2023/ 2026-10-08T12:00:00-04:00

Sapolsky narrowly prevailed by pressing unchosen causal origins, while Dennett built a strong compatibilist account of evolved, reasons-responsive self-control and humane responsibility.

https://slugfester.com/debate/paulogia-jones-divine-hiddenness-2019/ 2026-10-08T12:00:00-04:00

Paulogia narrowly wins through the one-exception burden and unequal disclosure, while Jones offers calibrated psychological, public-evidence, and postmortem compatibility replies.

https://slugfester.com/debate/horn-lataster-god-existence-2016/ 2026-10-07T12:00:00-04:00

Horn offers four converging routes to classical theism; Lataster narrowly prevails by preserving premise uncertainty, probabilistic counterevidence, and unresolved supernatural rivals.

https://slugfester.com/debate/winger-paulogia-resurrection-evidence-2018/ 2026-10-07T12:00:00-04:00

Mike Winger and Paulogia dispute whether early resurrection reports, appearances, persecution, and the empty tomb make Jesus’s resurrection the best historical explanation.

https://slugfester.com/debate/dillahunty-rauser-humanism-christianity-2023/ 2026-10-07T12:00:00-04:00

Matt Dillahunty and Randal Rauser compare secular humanism and mere Christianity as practical foundations for equal worth, moral judgment, solidarity, and present human flourishing.

https://slugfester.com/debate/horn-paulogia-apostolic-sincerity-2023/ 2026-10-07T12:00:00-04:00

Horn argues that documented and foreseeable suffering supports apostolic sincerity; Paulogia answers that evidence for several named leaders cannot establish all eleven.

https://slugfester.com/debate/copan-rauser-canaanite-conquest-2022/ 2026-10-07T12:00:00-04:00

Copan defends a historically grounded, hyperbolic conquest under exceptional divine judgment; Rauser argues that residual civilian targeting and identity destruction remain morally indefensible.

https://slugfester.com/debate/mcdowell-paulogia-apostolic-martyrdom-2020/ 2026-10-07T12:00:00-04:00

McDowell argues costly apostolic persistence supports sincere resurrection belief, while Paulogia accepts key individuals but challenges group scope, death evidence, and the move from sincerity to truth.

https://slugfester.com/debate/thomason-clifton-morality-meaning-god-2020/ 2026-10-07T12:00:00-04:00

Clifton’s careful separation of moral facts, duties, and finite meaning outperformed Thomason’s suggestive but under-supported appeals to transcendence and higher calling.

https://slugfester.com/debate/rauser-schieber-god-existence-2015/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00-04:00

Schieber’s comparative naturalist case better connects simplicity, hiddenness, cosmic hostility, and suffering to the motion, while Rauser offers serious epistemic and moral replies.

https://slugfester.com/debate/rauser-malpass-evidential-problem-evil-2021/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00-04:00

Malpass argues suffering favors indifference over classical theism; Rauser concedes the bare comparison while defending richer theistic background beliefs.

https://slugfester.com/debate/wielenberg-johnson-objective-morality-2020/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00-04:00

Wielenberg’s focused parity, intrinsic-value, and obligation challenges outperformed Johnson’s theistic grounding, though Johnson pressed a serious evolutionary reliability problem.

https://slugfester.com/debate/shermer-vandeweghe-jesus-miracles-2019/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00-04:00

Shermer wins by pressing claim-specific evidence and comparative religious testimony, while Vandeweghe offers substantive but incompletely connected historical witness arguments.

https://slugfester.com/debate/johnson-barker-god-existence-2022/ 2026-10-05T12:00:00-04:00

Johnson narrowly wins by presenting the more integrated cumulative case, though Barker’s coherence and evidential objections substantially limit its force.

https://slugfester.com/debate/nesan-dillahunty-jesus-prophecy-2021/ 2026-10-05T12:00:00-04:00

Dillahunty’s two-stage demand for prospective specificity and independent event evidence outweighed Nesan’s thoughtful but insufficiently constrained cumulative covenant reading.

https://slugfester.com/debate/butt-barker-biblical-god-2009/ 2026-10-05T12:00:00-04:00

Dan Barker narrowly wins through stronger natural alternatives and direct corrections, while Kyle Butt delivers the best single rebuttal on testimony but leaves key biblical identification bridges unsupported.

https://slugfester.com/debate/craig-kappel-god-existence-2012/ 2026-10-04T12:00:00-04:00

Craig’s cumulative theistic arguments face Kappel’s qualified atheism, comparative naturalism, and challenges concerning explanation, morality, testimony, and disagreement.