Published debate record
5 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 79.6/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
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.
David Wood vs Michael Shermer: Does God Exist? · 2022
Wood defended theism through intelligibility, moral grounding, and wider eschatological context; Shermer prevailed through empirical discrimination, natural mechanisms, secular morality, and suffering.
David Wood: 73 · Michael Shermer: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Matt Dillahunty: God or Secular Humanism? · 2020
Wood pressed categorical obligation and transcendent worth, while Dillahunty more effectively defended revisable secular ethics and exposed gaps in divine grounding.
David Wood: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Aron Ra: Is Naturalism True? · 2023
Wood challenges naturalism's warrant for abstract cognition; Aron Ra defends provisional, publicly corrected inquiry while requiring objective evidence for supernatural additions.
David Wood: 81 · Aron Ra: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Shabir Ally — Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2018
Wood’s cumulative historical case leads, while Ally’s critical challenges expose narrative tensions without establishing his conditional survival-and-ascension alternative.
David Wood: 82 · Shabir Ally: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.