Published debate record
15 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 81.5/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
William Lane Craig vs Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? · 2009
Craig advances a cumulative Christian case; Hitchens presses evidential burdens, inferential gaps, suffering, religious authority, and secular alternatives with greater consistency.
William Lane Craig: 78 · Christopher Hitchens: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is Religion the Problem? · 2010
Hitchens challenged revelation, supernatural explanation, and religious authority; D'Souza defended theism through comparative explanation, design, morality, purpose, and human agency.
Christopher Hitchens: 83 · Dinesh D'Souza: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox: Is God Great? · 2017
Lennox defended Christian explanatory foundations and redemptive hope; Hitchens pressed stronger challenges concerning revelation, secular value, suffering, authority, and historical complicity.
John Lennox: 77 · Christopher Hitchens: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Peter Hitchens: Iraq, God, and Moral Authority · 2008
Christopher Hitchens defends intervention and secular morality; Peter Hitchens challenges Iraq's consequences and argues that binding moral authority requires transcendence.
Christopher Hitchens: 79 · Peter Hitchens: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate · 2010
Hitchens challenges faith through natural explanation, secular morality, scriptural harm, and natural transcendence, while granting uncertainty where atheism cannot conclusively disprove theological possibilities.
Christopher Hitchens: 85 · Rabbi David Wolpe: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? · 2008
Turek advances cumulative theistic explanations, while Hitchens more consistently enforces evidential burdens, challenges Christian specificity, and defends secular moral autonomy.
Frank Turek: 74 · Christopher Hitchens: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Marvin Olasky: Religion, Grace, and Secular Morality · 2007
Hitchens attacks supernatural authority and religious morality; Olasky counters through Christianity's grace, charitable fruits, historical credibility, and challenges to universal condemnation.
Christopher Hitchens: 80 · Marvin Olasky: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Tariq Ramadan: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? · 2010
Hitchens foregrounds coercive institutions and secular equality; Ramadan answers through interpretive plurality, peace-oriented ethics, political causation, internal reform, and constitutional citizenship.
Christopher Hitchens: 80 · Tariq Ramadan: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Christopher Hitchens: What Best Explains Reality? · 2011
Turek advances a cumulative theistic explanation, while Hitchens more consistently supplies calibrated naturalistic alternatives and challenges the inferential bridges to design and revelation.
Frank Turek: 74 · Christopher Hitchens: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Tony Blair: Is Religion a Force for Good in the World? · 2010
Blair emphasized faith-inspired service, reconciliation, pluralism, and purpose; Hitchens countered with doctrinal harm, sacred conflict, secular alternatives, and stricter causal comparison.
Tony Blair: 83 · Christopher Hitchens: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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.
Shmuley Boteach vs Christopher Hitchens — God and morality · 2008
Boteach grounds design and human worth in a personal God; Hitchens answers with natural explanation, moral autonomy, and challenges to interventionist religion.
Shmuley Boteach: 74 · Christopher Hitchens: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Al Sharpton vs Christopher Hitchens — God, religion, and morality · 2007
Sharpton narrowed the case to personal theism, but Hitchens won by separating private belief from public warrant and supplying stronger naturalistic alternatives.
Al Sharpton: 76 · Christopher Hitchens: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Dembski vs Christopher Hitchens — Does a good God exist? · 2010
Hitchens wins by exposing the gap between design and a good providential God, while Dembski offers careful limits and several effective scientific replies.
William Dembski: 71 · Christopher Hitchens: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Douglas Wilson — Truth, Goodness, and Beauty · 2008
Wilson argues that theism grounds reason, value, and purposeful beauty; Hitchens answers with human responsibility, secular awe, skeptical inquiry, and stricter tests for miracles.
Douglas Wilson: 75 · Christopher Hitchens: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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Christopher Hitchens vs Harold Kushner and Peter Gomes: God, Religion, and Morality · 2009
Kushner and Gomes defend religion as moral aspiration, resilience, and community; Hitchens argues that secular ethics survives while religion adds dangerous authority claims.
Harold Kushner and Peter Gomes: 81 · Christopher Hitchens: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Onaiyekan & Ann Widdecombe vs Stephen Fry & Christopher Hitchens: The Catholic Church Is a Force for Good in the World · 2009
Onaiyekan and Widdecombe emphasize global welfare, spiritual hope, and reform within a fallible institution; Fry and Hitchens argue that those benefits do not outweigh institutional abuse, sexual control, public-health obstruction, and unaccountable authority.
John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe: 78 · Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens: 92. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.