Published debate record
7 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 75/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
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.
Dinesh D'Souza vs Matt Dillahunty: Does God Exist? What Is a Woman? · 2023
D'Souza defended faith-informed inference, biological institutions, and market incentives; Dillahunty answered with evidential burdens, institutional neutrality, and consequence-focused social welfare.
Dinesh D'Souza: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Dinesh D'Souza vs Bart Ehrman: God, Suffering, and Evil · 2025
D'Souza defended theistic compatibility through epistemic limits, freedom, and natural order; Ehrman pressed suffering's scale, preventability, and unexplained intervention gap.
Dinesh D'Souza: 79 · Bart Ehrman: 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.
Daniel Dennett vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is God a Human Invention? · 2007
Dennett advances naturalistic explanations of religion, cosmos, mind, and morality, while D'Souza defends divine reality through conceptual, cosmological, experiential, and moral arguments.
Daniel Dennett: 80 · Dinesh D'Souza: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Can There Be Morality Without God? Dinesh D'Souza vs. Peter Singer · 2008
Dinesh D'Souza and Peter Singer dispute whether moral obligations require God. D'Souza presses conscience, equality, sacrifice, history, and duty's authority, while Singer answers through reason, universal consideration, ethical progress, and Euthyphro.
Dinesh D'Souza: 71 · Peter Singer: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Dinesh D’Souza vs Dan Barker — Does God Exist? · 2009
Barker narrowly wins by sustaining evidential restraint and sharper rebuttals, while D’Souza offers a broad cumulative case weakened by several unsupported inferential bridges.
Dinesh D'Souza: 72 · Dan Barker: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer vs Ian Hutchinson and Dinesh D'Souza: Has Science Refuted Religion? · 2012
Carroll and Shermer argue that naturalism and scientific explanations have displaced religious claims; Hutchinson and D'Souza argue that science has not refuted religion because it cannot settle every religious, historical, moral, or existential claim.
Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer: 81 · Ian Hutchinson and Dinesh D'Souza: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.