Published debate record
10 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 76.7/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
John Lennox vs Peter Atkins: Can Science Explain Everything? · 2019
Lennox defended explanatory pluralism across purpose, rationality, miracles, origins, and ethics, while Atkins pressed public evidence, natural sufficiency, and scientific progress.
John Lennox: 84 · Peter Atkins: 77. 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.
John Lennox vs Peter Atkins: Duelling Professors on Science and God · 2012
Lennox pressed cumulative explanatory gaps and Christian evidence, while Atkins defended methodological economy, emergent natural processes, evolved morality, and evidential restraint.
John Lennox: 79 · Peter Atkins: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Michael Ruse: Science, Faith, and the Evidence for God · 2018
Lennox defended cumulative Christian evidence, while Ruse separated faith from inference and pressed a particularly effective challenge from innocent suffering.
John Lennox: 79 · Michael Ruse: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox: Has Science Buried God? · 2017
Lennox defended theism's explanatory compatibility and Christian implications; Dawkins more consistently pressed evolutionary alternatives, creator complexity, anthropic selection, and independent evidential burdens.
John Lennox: 76 · Richard Dawkins: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Lawrence Krauss: Science, the Universe, and the God Question · 2013
Lennox argues that intelligibility, fine-tuning, and existence favor divine mind; Krauss counters with physical explanations, selection effects, and demanding evidential standards.
John Lennox: 76 · Lawrence Krauss: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Peter Singer vs John Lennox: Is There a God? · 2011
Lennox presents a cumulative Christian explanation of reason, value, hope, and Jesus; Singer answers with naturalistic alternatives, evidential demands, and suffering.
John Lennox: 75 · Peter Singer: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is Belief in God a Delusion? Richard Dawkins vs. John Lennox · 2007
Dawkins prevailed narrowly by pressing natural explanations, evidential scrutiny, and secular accounts of morality, while Lennox answered strongly on evidential faith, science's limits, and Christian distinctiveness.
Richard Dawkins: 76 · John Lennox: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does God Exist? John Lennox vs. Michael Shermer · 2008
Shermer’s disciplined evidential restraint narrowly prevailed over Lennox’s wide-ranging cumulative case, chiefly through stronger replies on suffering, historical underdetermination, and uncertainty.
John Lennox: 76 · Michael Shermer: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Michael Tooley — Atheism and Christianity · 2013
Tooley wins by separating atheism from anti-Christian critique and pressing evil and prophecy; Lennox offers strong compatibility replies but leaves key positive warrants underdeveloped.
John Lennox: 73 · Michael Tooley: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.