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Graham Oppy

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Background

About Graham Oppy

Graham Oppy is an Australian philosopher associated with Monash University. His research focuses on philosophy of religion, including the assessment of arguments for God’s existence and comparisons between religious and naturalistic worldviews.

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Published debate record

12 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 84.1/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

William Lane Craig vs Graham Oppy: Does Math Point to God? · 2020

Craig argues that mathematics’ predictive applicability favors intentional divine ordering; Oppy challenges the datum and offers naturalistic necessity, structural, and selection-based alternatives.

William Lane Craig: 81 · Graham Oppy: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Richard Swinburne vs Graham Oppy: Is Theism Probable? · 2022

Swinburne advances a cumulative theistic explanation, while Oppy answers with economical naturalistic alternatives and sharper comparative, anthropocentric, consciousness, and modal challenges.

Richard Swinburne: 80 · Graham Oppy: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Andrew Loke vs Graham Oppy: Is the Kalam Sound? · 2020

Loke builds a first-cause route toward personal agency, while Oppy challenges its modal bridges and develops a comparatively economical necessary-natural-state alternative.

Andrew Loke: 74 · Graham Oppy: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Graham Oppy vs Kenny Pearce: Is There a God? · 2022

Pearce develops theistic grounding and experiential arguments, while Oppy presses symmetrical naturalistic alternatives, epistemic calibration, and religious diversity as stronger comparative explanations.

Kenny Pearce: 84 · Graham Oppy: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Michael Huemer vs Graham Oppy: Do Souls Exist? · 2022

Huemer argues that irreducible mentality requires a surviving soul, while Oppy offers multiscale naturalism, brain dependence, and cosmological objections to that inference.

Michael Huemer: 76 · Graham Oppy: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.