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Alex O'Connor

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Background

About Alex O'Connor

Alex O’Connor is a writer, public speaker, and host of the Within Reason podcast. His interviews and discussions explore philosophy of religion, biblical scholarship, and questions about ethics and public life.

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Published debate record

28 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 85.5/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig: Does God Exist? · 2026

Craig presented a cumulative Christian case, while O'Connor's calibrated challenges concerning fine-tuning, animal suffering, and Christian specificity proved especially effective.

William Lane Craig: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

David Wood vs Alex O'Connor: Did Jesus Claim to Be God? · 2025

Wood built a cumulative divine-identity case, while O'Connor more consistently showed that agency, delegation, and later devotion underdetermine Jesus's personal self-claim.

David Wood: 83 · Alex O'Connor: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Francis Collins vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Exist? · 2024

Collins builds a cumulative Christian case from fine-tuning, morality, resurrection, revelation, and beauty, while answering suffering through orderly creation and noncoercive evidence.

Francis Collins: 79 · Alex O'Connor: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Alex O'Connor vs Craig Biddle: Is Morality Objective? · 2024

Biddle grounds objective morality in life and flourishing; O'Connor argues that conditional valuation cannot establish objective duties, especially toward other people and animals.

Craig Biddle: 82 · Alex O'Connor: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Alex O'Connor vs Frank Turek: The Moral Argument Debate · 2017

Turek grounds objective obligation in God; O'Connor distinguishes compelling moral experience from objectivity and offers evolutionary, psychological, and conditional explanations.

Frank Turek: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Alex O'Connor vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is the Bible True? · 2024

O'Connor pressed concrete historical and moral counterexamples, while D'Souza defended genre-sensitive revelation, cumulative testimony, moral development, and Christianity's beneficial interpretive traditions.

Dinesh D'Souza: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 91. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Trent Horn vs Alex O'Connor: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2026

Horn defended bodily continuity, appearances, sincerity, and the empty tomb, while O'Connor pressed source ambiguity, rival-testimony parity, corroboration deficits, and natural alternatives.

Trent Horn: 78 · Alex O'Connor: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Jonathan McLatchie vs Alex O'Connor: Theism or Naturalism? · 2022

McLatchie advances biological-design and resurrection arguments while answering hiddenness and suffering objections through adequate evidence, moral probation, epistemic limits, and lawful regularity.

Jonathan McLatchie: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Alex O'Connor vs Cameron Bertuzzi: Something From Nothing? · 2018

Bertuzzi defends an external necessary foundation, while O'Connor presses modal, compositional, symmetry, and underdetermination objections against identifying that foundation as God.

Cameron Bertuzzi: 81 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Send People to Hell? · 2023

Jones defends hell through self-chosen degeneration, corrective grace, open escape, and possible annihilation; O'Connor challenges agency, proportionality, misinformation, universalism, and atonement.

Michael Jones: 80 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Jonathan McLatchie vs Alex O'Connor: Is Christianity True? · 2019

McLatchie defended Christianity through resurrection testimony and contextual reconciliation; O'Connor challenged source sufficiency, theological inference, biblical morality, and animal-suffering explanations.

Jonathan McLatchie: 83 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Trent Horn vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Exist? · 2020

Horn develops a cumulative classical-theist case, while O'Connor's quantum, metaethical, personal-explanation, and animal-suffering challenges expose consequential gaps in its foundations and identification.

Trent Horn: 77 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Gregory Pine vs Alex O'Connor: The Divine Hiddenness Problem · 2024

O'Connor presses sincere nonbelief, unequal access, culpability, and inherited deprivation; Pine answers through universal grace, temporal formation, providence, and recoverable gratuitous gifts.

Gregory Pine: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Alex O'Connor vs Dr Alex Carter: Free Will and Determinism · 2024

O'Connor pressed ultimate-source objections and practical compassion; Carter more strongly defended graded, attributable agency while preserving interpersonal and normative dimensions.

Alex O'Connor: 79 · Alex Carter: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Divine Hiddenness and a Loving God: Alex O'Connor vs. Lukas Ruegger · 2022

Alex O'Connor prevailed by separating public arguments from personally accessible revelation and pressing nonresistant seeking and delayed disclosure, while Lukas Ruegger countered with cumulative evidence, fallible introspection, individualized pathways, and delay's possible goods.

Alex O'Connor: 85 · Lukas Ruegger: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Why Be a Christian? Trent Horn vs. Alex O'Connor · 2022

Alex O'Connor wins 84-74 by pressing suffering and hiddenness more precisely than Trent Horn warrants Christianity's cumulative explanatory bridges.

Trent Horn: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Alex O'Connor vs Max Baker-Hytch: Could God Be Evil? · 2021

O'Connor narrowly leads through character-focused objections and reciprocal creation motives, while Baker-Hytch excels at scope distinctions and qualifies the final mixed-world comparison.

Alex O'Connor: 84 · Max Baker-Hytch: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

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