Published debate record
8 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 74.1/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
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.
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.
Alex O'Connor vs Frank Turek: The Moral Argument Debate · 2017
Turek grounds objective obligation in God; O'Connor distinguishes compelling moral experience from objectivity and offers evolutionary, psychological, and conditional explanations.
Frank Turek: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Michael Shermer: What Best Explains Reality? · 2018
Turek advances a cumulative theistic explanation, while Shermer's calibrated skepticism, natural mechanisms, and evidential challenges more completely answer the debate's central burdens.
Frank Turek: 72 · Michael Shermer: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs David Silverman: Which Better Explains Reality? · 2013
Turek advances cumulative theistic explanations, while Silverman emphasizes natural processes, evidential restraint, human responsibility, and tensions between divine attributes and suffering.
Frank Turek: 77 · David Silverman: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jeffery Jay Lowder vs Frank Turek: Naturalism or Theism? · 2016
Lowder's calibrated comparative case consistently outperformed Turek's cumulative theistic inferences, especially concerning embodied minds, suffering, hiddenness, and naturalistic cognitive reliability.
Jeffery Jay Lowder: 85 · Frank Turek: 70. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Michael Shermer: Is Morality Better Explained by God or Science? · 2015
Turek pressed divine grounding and the is-ought gap; Shermer answered through sentient flourishing, autonomy, evolved capacities, and challenges about religious reliability.
Frank Turek: 76 · Michael Shermer: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Dennis Nørmark — Does God Exist? · 2014
Turek’s cumulative theistic case narrowly loses to Nørmark’s calibrated natural explanations, stronger concessions, and more consistent evidential burden.
Frank Turek: 74 · Dennis Nørmark: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.