Published debate record
14 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 75.9/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Michael Jones vs Richard Carrier: Does God Exist? · 2025
Jones and Carrier closely contest whether consciousness, cosmic structure, morality, and origins comparatively favor theistic idealism or secular naturalism.
Michael Jones: 74 · Richard Carrier: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Derek Lambert vs Michael Jones: Atheist and Christian Discussion · 2021
Jones defended Christianity through cumulative evidence and qualified theology; Lambert pressed disclosure, comparative testimony, scriptural development, sincere nonbelief, and historical insufficiency.
Michael Jones: 79 · Derek Lambert: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Lawrence Krauss: Christianity or Secular Ethics - What's Best for Society? · 2025
Christianity's institutional and moral arguments narrowly outperformed secular ethics, while secular challenges concerning heterogeneity, fallibilism, causation, and equal standing remained substantial.
Michael Jones: 79 · Lawrence Krauss: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Stephen Law: Christianity vs Humanism · 2025
Law’s comparative, neutrality, and evidential challenges outweighed Jones’s stronger pluralism case and qualified historical, social, scientific, and theological defenses.
Michael Jones: 72 · Stephen Law: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs James Fodor: The Digital Physics Argument for God · 2021
Jones links emergent spacetime and structural physics to theistic idealism; Fodor counters that the science permits nonmental foundations and better constrains explanation.
Michael Jones: 71 · James Fodor: 87. 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.
Michael Jones vs Tom Jump: Does God Exist? · 2019
Jones defended theistic idealism through consciousness and emergent spacetime; Jump pressed underdetermination, epistemic limits, natural alternatives, and the explanatory cost of divine attributes.
Michael Jones: 76 · Tom Jump: 80. 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.
Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Send People to Hell? · 2023
Jones defends hell through self-chosen degeneration, corrective grace, open escape, and possible annihilation; O'Connor challenges agency, proportionality, misinformation, universalism, and atonement.
Michael Jones: 80 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Divine Hiddenness and Christian Love: Tyler Vela vs. Michael Jones · 2023
Tyler Vela’s hiddenness critique wins by pressing loving availability, avoidable world design, and less-hidden alternatives more consistently than Michael Jones establishes sanctification, soul formation, and individualized disclosure.
Tyler Vela: 83 · Michael Jones: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Joseph Schmid: Does the Contingency Argument Support God? · 2022
Schmid won by fourteen points because his focused underdetermination objections repeatedly exposed unsupported transitions in Jones’s ambitious, wide-ranging explanatory case.
Michael Jones: 73 · Joseph Schmid: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Would a loving God allow the evil and suffering found in our world? · 2020
O'Connor more effectively presses evidential justification and selective prevention, while Jones offers qualified defenses through freedom, virtue, and eventual recovery from suffering.
Michael Jones: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Aron Ra vs Michael Jones — Is Christianity dangerous? · 2019
Aron documents scriptural and social harms, but Jones wins by repeatedly separating Christian identity from causation and challenging unadjusted comparisons.
Aron Ra: 75 · Michael Jones: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Paulogia vs Michael Jones — Divine Hiddenness and a Perfectly Loving God · 2019
Paulogia narrowly wins through the one-exception burden and unequal disclosure, while Jones offers calibrated psychological, public-evidence, and postmortem compatibility replies.
Paulogia: 86 · Michael Jones: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.