Published debate record
6 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 81/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Stephen Woodford vs Glen Scrivener: Does Religion Poison Everything? · 2026
Woodford pressed doctrinal harm and non-Christian moral goods; Scrivener answered through Christian anthropology, reforming institutions, sacred equality, and nonviolent interpretation.
Stephen Woodford: 83 · Glen Scrivener: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stephen Woodford vs Justin Brierley: Is Christianity Rational? · 2019
Woodford pressed consistent evidence, naturalistic alternatives, and inference gaps; Brierley defended cumulative Christian warrant through experience, explanation, morality, reason, and testimony.
Stephen Woodford: 82 · Justin Brierley: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stephen Woodford vs Simon Edwards: Is It Rational to Believe in God? · 2023
Woodford presses suffering, revelation, and evidential gaps; Edwards answers through a cumulative theistic case grounded in reason, order, morality, and purpose.
Stephen Woodford: 82 · Simon Edwards: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Paul Copan vs Stephen Woodford: Is Belief in God Reasonable? · 2024
Copan’s cumulative theistic explanation connected cosmology, consciousness, morality, and reform, but underdeveloped rival comparisons and the evidential challenge from suffering.
Paul Copan: 78 · Stephen Woodford: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sharon Dirckx vs Stephen Woodford: Why Doesn't God Stop Suffering? · 2024
Dirckx defended broken creation, objective dignity, divine solidarity, and restoration; Woodford pressed evidential challenges about permitted suffering, selective healing, and salvation.
Sharon Dirckx: 79 · Stephen Woodford: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Metaphorical Truth and Religious Patterns: Jonathan Pageau vs. Stephen Woodford · 2020
Woodford won 78–74 by combining charitable preservation of religious insights with stronger contextual scrutiny, cross-tradition comparison, and concrete ethical challenges; Pageau’s embedded-reform case landed powerfully but left key metaphysical and practical warrants incomplete.
Jonathan Pageau: 74 · Stephen Woodford: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.