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Ben Watkins

Ben Watkins's Slugfester profile includes score averages, opponents faced, topic performance, and linked debate scorecards.

Background

About Ben Watkins

Ben Watkins is a host of Real Atheology, a podcast about philosophy of religion from an atheist perspective. Its interviews and discussions explore arguments about God, morality, and the competing explanations offered by different worldviews.

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Published debate record

3 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 80.7/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Gregory Pine vs Ben Watkins: Does God Exist? · 2020

Pine defends classical theism through Thomistic metaphysics, while Watkins presses identification gaps, divine-attribute tensions, evolutionary suffering, hiddenness, and religious disagreement.

Gregory Pine: 79 · Ben Watkins: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Dustin Crummett vs Ben Watkins: Does the Soul Exist? · 2020

Crummett narrowly prevails, pairing fission cases with contingent psychophysical laws, while Watkins offers empirically grounded monism but overstates closure and conservation arguments.

Dustin Crummett: 82 · Ben Watkins: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Does God Exist? Trent Horn vs. Ben Watkins · 2021

Horn argued from a first actualizer, finite past, divine attributes, and moral value; Watkins countered with sustaining-causation objections, naturalism’s simpler prior, evolutionary evil, hiddenness, and secular moral realism.

Trent Horn: 71 · Ben Watkins: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.