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Trent Horn

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

Background

About Trent Horn

Trent Horn is a Catholic author and speaker associated with Catholic Answers. His books and debates address arguments for Catholicism, moral questions, and challenges to religious belief from both religious and nonreligious critics.

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Published debate record

9 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 77.7/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Trent Horn vs Alex O'Connor: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2026

Horn defended bodily continuity, appearances, sincerity, and the empty tomb, while O'Connor pressed source ambiguity, rival-testimony parity, corroboration deficits, and natural alternatives.

Trent Horn: 78 · Alex O'Connor: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Trent Horn vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Exist? · 2020

Horn develops a cumulative classical-theist case, while O'Connor's quantum, metaethical, personal-explanation, and animal-suffering challenges expose consequential gaps in its foundations and identification.

Trent Horn: 77 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Does God Exist? Trent Horn vs. Ben Watkins · 2021

Horn argued from a first actualizer, finite past, divine attributes, and moral value; Watkins countered with sustaining-causation objections, naturalism’s simpler prior, evolutionary evil, hiddenness, and secular moral realism.

Trent Horn: 71 · Ben Watkins: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Why Be a Christian? Trent Horn vs. Alex O'Connor · 2022

Alex O'Connor wins 84-74 by pressing suffering and hiddenness more precisely than Trent Horn warrants Christianity's cumulative explanatory bridges.

Trent Horn: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Trent Horn vs Dan Barker — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2018

Horn narrowly prevailed through stronger metaphysical replies and a resilient resurrection case, while Barker excelled on institutional accountability, scriptural morality, and textual conflict.

Trent Horn: 73 · Dan Barker: 71. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Trent Horn vs Raphael Lataster — Does God Exist? · 2016

Horn offers four converging routes to classical theism; Lataster narrowly prevails by preserving premise uncertainty, probabilistic counterevidence, and unresolved supernatural rivals.

Trent Horn: 79 · Raphael Lataster: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

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