Published debate record
5 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 86.4/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Josh Rasmussen vs Scott Clifton: Is the Contingency Argument Persuasive? · 2019
Rasmussen defends global explanatory inquiry and a noncontingent foundation; Clifton challenges its scope, modal bridge, and advantage over a brute contingent endpoint.
Josh Rasmussen: 79 · Scott Clifton: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Scott Clifton: The Kalam Cosmological Argument · 2021
Craig defends metaphysical causation beyond spacetime, while Clifton argues ordinary causal evidence supports narrower principles and leaves transcendent creation insufficiently warranted.
William Lane Craig: 82 · Scott Clifton: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Slick vs Scott Clifton: Does Objective Morality Require God? · 2014
Slick grounds universal morality in God's immutable character, while Clifton's secular alternatives and circularity objections more completely address objectivity, obligation, and impartial justification.
Matt Slick: 70 · Scott Clifton: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Zac Sechler vs Scott Clifton: Is Christian belief in a loving God plausible despite divine hiddenness and the prospect of hell? · 2022
Clifton’s hiddenness and hell challenge prevailed 83–72, especially against Sechler’s uncertainty-based freedom defense, inclusivist salvation, and preference for annihilation.
Zac Sechler: 72 · Scott Clifton: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
SJ Thomason vs Scott Clifton — Morality, Meaning and God · 2020
Clifton’s careful separation of moral facts, duties, and finite meaning outperformed Thomason’s suggestive but under-supported appeals to transcendence and higher calling.
SJ Thomason: 70 · Scott Clifton: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.