Published debate record
32 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 85.6/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Matt Dillahunty vs Sye Ten Bruggencate: Is It Reasonable to Believe God Exists? · 2014
Dillahunty’s fallibilist evidential method consistently outperformed Ten Bruggencate’s presuppositional case, whose challenges identified foundational problems but rarely demonstrated Christianity’s exclusive necessity.
Sye Ten Bruggencate: 64 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. 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.
Jordan Peterson vs Matt Dillahunty: The Greatest God Debate In History · 2023
Peterson defended religious experience, narrative, and ultimate value as meaning-bearing realities; Dillahunty separated those functions from warranted belief in supernatural agency.
Jordan Peterson: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jay Dyer vs Matt Dillahunty: Transcendental Argument for Theism · 2019
Dyer argues Orthodox theism uniquely grounds transcendental categories; Dillahunty counters that fallible reliability permits rational inquiry without an unproved divine guarantor.
Jay Dyer: 76 · Matt Dillahunty: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Knechtle offered cumulative historical, moral, and relational warrant for Christianity; Dillahunty consistently pressed whether those methods distinguish supernatural truth from preservation, fiction, and alternatives.
Cliffe Knechtle: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Trent Horn vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Belief in the Resurrection Reasonable? · 2021
Horn defended resurrection belief through testimony and comparative explanation; Dillahunty narrowly prevailed by separating sincerity from accuracy and emphasizing ordinary error.
Trent Horn: 82 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Glen Scrivener vs Matt Dillahunty: Can Atheism Deliver a Better World? · 2020
Scrivener grounds dignity and obligation in Christianity; Dillahunty distinguishes atheism from secular humanism and advances a corrigible, human-centered moral foundation.
Glen Scrivener: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Matt Slick: Is Secular Humanism Superior to Christianity? · 2016
Dillahunty’s revisable, welfare-centered humanism outperformed Slick’s foundational Christian critique, whose serious grounding objections remained insufficiently connected to comparative practical superiority.
Matt Dillahunty: 82 · Matt Slick: 74. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Matt Dillahunty: Quantum Idealism and Demonstrability · 2026
Jones offered an informational idealist account of quantum observation, while Dillahunty pressed stronger public-demonstrability, causal-interaction, preconscious-development, and discriminating-testability objections.
Michael Jones: 69 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Winger vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Belief in the Resurrection Unreasonable? · 2019
Winger builds a cumulative historical case for resurrection, while Dillahunty argues that transmitted reports and unresolved causal gaps justify withholding belief.
Mike Winger: 80 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Egnor vs Matt Dillahunty: Does God Exist? · 2021
Egnor developed cumulative Thomistic, natural-order, and moral arguments, while Dillahunty more effectively defended evidential restraint and exposed unsupported transitions to God.
Michael Egnor: 71 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Than Christopoulos vs Matt Dillahunty: Is the Resurrection a Historical Event? · 2024
Christopoulos presented a cumulative probabilistic resurrection case, while Dillahunty’s source challenges and distinctions between sincerity, likelihood, and warranted belief preserved rational uncertainty.
Than Christopoulos: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Zac Sechler vs Matt Dillahunty: Did a Perfect Mind Create the Universe? · 2022
Sechler presents a cumulative perfect-mind inference; Dillahunty answers that unspecified hypotheses, missing likelihood baselines, hiddenness, and rival agent explanations limit its force.
Zac Sechler: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Braxton Hunter vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Christian God Exist? · 2019
Hunter builds a cumulative Christian case from freedom, causation, and resurrection; Dillahunty presses underdetermination, evidential discrimination, hiddenness, and revelation inconsistency.
Braxton Hunter: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Matt Dillahunty: Reason to Believe in God? · 2020
Jones assembled a cumulative idealist explanation, while Dillahunty’s sharper probability, underdetermination, and burden challenges exposed substantial gaps between suggestive evidence and theism.
Michael Jones: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 91. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matthew Adelstein vs Matt Dillahunty: Should We Believe in God? · 2025
Adelstein presented a cumulative Bayesian case for theism, while Dillahunty more consistently exposed underdetermined likelihoods, divine motives, and omnimax identification.
Matthew Adelstein: 81 · Matt Dillahunty: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Kenny Rhodes vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Evidence for God? · 2021
Rhodes defended a metaphysical route from finite composition to classical theism; Dillahunty pressed evidential, ontological, agency, identification, and hiddenness objections.
Kenny Rhodes: 70 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ben Fischer vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Good Evidence for God? · 2020
Fischer defended axiomatic theism, causal agency, and testimony; Dillahunty pressed discriminating evidence, modal justification, consistent standards, and identifiable divine attribution.
Ben Fischer: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ray Comfort vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Gospel Make Sense? · 2020
Comfort defended guilt, substitution, and faith-based salvation; Dillahunty pressed stronger challenges concerning responsibility, atonement, evidential method, and testability.
Ray Comfort: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Tyler Vela vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Good Evidence for God? · 2020
Vela grounds transcendental facts in a necessary personal mind; Dillahunty argues that the inference remains underspecified, comparatively unsupported, and evidentially nondiscriminating.
Tyler Vela: 76 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Baggett vs Matt Dillahunty: The Moral Argument for God · 2018
Baggett’s qualified theistic explanation meets Dillahunty’s secular mechanisms, candidacy constraints, access objections, and hiddenness challenge across moral authority, knowledge, transformation, and flourishing.
David Baggett: 85 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Licona vs Matt Dillahunty: Was Jesus Raised from the Dead? · 2017
Licona defended resurrection through historical and comparative inference; Dillahunty more effectively separated reported events, unexplained anomalies, supernatural classification, and justified causal attribution.
Mike Licona: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. 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.
Matt Dillahunty vs Lewis Howitt: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Howitt develops a necessary Logos and Trinitarian metaphysics; Dillahunty challenges its evidential standards, Christian specificity, divine coherence, and treatment of classical logic.
Lewis Howitt (PerspectivePhilosophy): 71 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Jonathan McLatchie: Is There Strong Evidence for the Resurrection? · 2020
McLatchie built a cumulative resurrection case from early testimony; Dillahunty prevailed by challenging source independence, testability, alternative explanations, and evidential thresholds.
Dr Jonathan McLatchie: 78 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Ferrer vs Matt Dillahunty: Do We Need God for Morality? · 2018
Ferrer grounds categorical morality and knowledge in God while Dillahunty defends publicly correctable wellbeing judgments and challenges scripture as divine guidance.
John Ferrer: 67 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does the Soul Exist? Eric Hernandez vs. Matt Dillahunty · 2015
Dillahunty prevailed through verification demands, brain dependence, and physical alternatives, while Hernandez offered a broad metaphysical case whose central necessity inferences remained under-supported.
Eric Hernandez: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stuart Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity Rational? · 2023
Knechtle offered cumulative historical, moral, and experiential support for Christianity; Dillahunty prevailed by demanding stronger links from reports and effects to supernatural conclusions.
Stuart Knechtle: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Blake Giunta — Faith and Rational Justification · 2018
A closely matched exchange tests whether theism needs prior possibility evidence or may enter ordinary comparative inference, with Dillahunty prevailing by one point.
Matt Dillahunty: 83 · Blake Giunta: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Blake Giunta vs Matt Dillahunty — Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2016
Dillahunty wins by separating early proclamation from resurrection, while Giunta offers substantial historical and Bayesian replies that leave important evidential bridges unresolved.
Blake Giunta: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Samuel Nesan vs Matt Dillahunty — Did Jesus Fulfill Prophecy? · 2021
Dillahunty’s two-stage demand for prospective specificity and independent event evidence outweighed Nesan’s thoughtful but insufficiently constrained cumulative covenant reading.
Samuel Nesan: 78 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Randal Rauser — Humanism or Christianity? · 2023
Matt Dillahunty and Randal Rauser compare secular humanism and mere Christianity as practical foundations for equal worth, moral judgment, solidarity, and present human flourishing.
Matt Dillahunty: 83 · Randal Rauser: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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Cliffe Knechtle & Stuart Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty & Joshua Bowen: Is the Bible's treatment of slavery morally defensible? · 2021
The critics prevail by grounding ownership and coercion in specific texts, while the defenders’ canonical trajectory never fully reconciles those legal permissions.
Cliffe Knechtle & Stuart Knechtle: 69 · Matt Dillahunty & Joshua Bowen: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.