Published debate record
4 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 74/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Christopher Hitchens vs Alister McGrath: Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World · 2007
Hitchens pressed evidential, coercive, and secular-moral objections; McGrath defended interpretive openness, transcendent morality, restorative doctrine, and Christianity's nonviolent norms.
Alister McGrath: 80 · Christopher Hitchens: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Has New Atheism Failed? Alister McGrath vs. Alex O'Connor · 2023
Con wins 83–73 by separating atheism from New Atheism’s defects and decisively exposing Pro’s unresolved covenant, slavery, and Leviticus problems.
Alister McGrath: 73 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is God a Figment of Our Imagination? Michael Shermer vs. Alister McGrath · 2017
Shermer prevailed by connecting religious diversity, evidential burdens, naturalistic morality, and unfalsifiability to human construction, while McGrath offered thoughtful but less evidentially complete defenses of faith.
Michael Shermer: 77 · Alister McGrath: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Dawkins vs Alister McGrath: Is Christianity Rational? · 2006
Dawkins wins by pressing evidence, complexity, Christian specificity, and selective providence more successfully, while McGrath offers a thoughtful but incompletely warranted integrative worldview.
Alister McGrath: 71 · Richard Dawkins: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.