Published debate record
1 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 76/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
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.
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Rowan Williams, Philip Goff, Elizabeth Oldfield, and Alex O'Connor: Between God and Atheism · 2024
Williams, Goff, and Oldfield defend traditional, revised, and experiential Christianity; O'Connor presses fine-tuning limits, suffering, Gnosticism, and purpose.
Rowan Williams, Philip Goff, and Elizabeth Oldfield: 80 · Alex O'Connor, with Jack Symes moderating: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig and Rowan Williams vs Sabine Hossenfelder and Slavoj Žižek: Does God Exist? · 2026
Craig and Williams defend Christian theism through arguments, experience, practice, and human meaning; Hossenfelder and Žižek press scientific restraint, religious plurality, and a Christian-atheist reading of God as a communal or symbolic force.
William Lane Craig and Rowan Williams: 82 · Sabine Hossenfelder and Slavoj Žižek: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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.