Published debate record
9 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 82.3/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs Richard Dawkins: The God Debate · 2024
Hirsi Ali defended Christian renewal through personal transformation and civilizational need; Dawkins separated those benefits from supernatural truth and challenged religious moral authority.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 74 · Richard Dawkins: 84. 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.
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.
God, Science and the Poetry of Reality: Rowan Williams vs. Richard Dawkins · 2026
Scientific naturalism wins by one point: Dawkins leads on consciousness, creative by-products, and evolutionary suffering, while Williams answers more precisely on allegorical Genesis, noncompetitive divine action, and classical simplicity.
Rowan Williams: 76 · Richard Dawkins: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Memes, Archetypes, and Religious Truth: Jordan Peterson vs. Richard Dawkins · 2024
Scientific naturalism wins 86–74 by separating symbolic usefulness from factual warrant, demanding traceable evidence, and explaining cultural transmission naturally, while symbolic realism remains strongest on narrative prioritization and action-guiding compression.
Jordan Peterson: 74 · Richard Dawkins: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Science and Belief in God: Francis Collins vs. Richard Dawkins · 2022
Collins preserves rational space through compatibility and cumulative signposts, but Dawkins wins by stronger natural explanations and sharper challenges concerning redundancy, suffering, and selective miracles.
Francis Collins: 76 · Richard Dawkins: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Dawkins vs Alister McGrath: Is Christianity Rational? · 2006
Dawkins wins by pressing evidence, complexity, Christian specificity, and selective providence more successfully, while McGrath offers a thoughtful but incompletely warranted integrative worldview.
Alister McGrath: 71 · Richard Dawkins: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Deepak Chopra vs Richard Dawkins — Consciousness, Cosmic Purpose, and Spirituality · 2013
Dawkins wins through scale-sensitive emergence arguments and precise criticism of quantum equivocation; Chopra’s strongest reply challenges confidence in promised brain-only explanation.
Deepak Chopra: 66 · Richard Dawkins: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan Sacks vs Richard Dawkins — Science and Religion · 2012
Sacks defends compatibility through distinct roles and disciplined interpretation, while Dawkins more successfully presses whether religious purpose and supernatural premises have independent warrant.
Jonathan Sacks: 77 · Richard Dawkins: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams & Anthony Kenny: Humanity's Ultimate Origins · 2012
Williams presents humanity as the universe becoming linguistically and morally self-aware within a divine relation; Dawkins argues that natural selection explains apparent purpose without design; Kenny presses both accounts from an explicitly agnostic philosophical position.
Rowan Williams: 86 · Richard Dawkins and Anthony Kenny: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.