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Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins's Slugfester profile includes score averages, opponents faced, topic performance, and linked debate scorecards.

Background

About Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins is a chemist and author associated with the University of Oxford. Alongside widely used chemistry textbooks, he writes books for general readers about scientific explanation and the physical world.

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Published debate record

6 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 71.7/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Peter Atkins vs Keith Fox: God vs Science Debate · 2024

Atkins defended scientific materialism and finite purpose; Fox more consistently distinguished mechanism from metaphysics while grounding morality, personhood, hope, and technological restraint.

Peter Atkins: 70 · Keith Fox: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

William Lane Craig vs Peter Atkins: Does God Exist? · 2011

Craig advances cumulative cosmological, moral, and resurrection arguments, then answers naturalistic objections concerning causality, evolution, suffering, miracles, and scientific method.

William Lane Craig: 83 · Peter Atkins: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Peter Atkins vs Stephen Law — Science or philosophy? · 2014

Atkins champions evidence-driven scientific expansion; Law concedes science’s empirical authority while defending conceptual analysis, ultimate explanation, and moral justification as indispensable.

Peter Atkins: 65 · Stephen Law: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Stephen Meyer vs Peter Atkins — Intelligent Design and Science · 2010

Meyer’s qualified causal and methodological case outperformed Atkins’s naturalistic objections, chiefly by sharply separating functional sequence from spontaneous order and origins from later evolution.

Stephen Meyer: 80 · Peter Atkins: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.