Published debate record
30 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 78.8/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig: Does God Exist? · 2026
Craig presented a cumulative Christian case, while O'Connor's calibrated challenges concerning fine-tuning, animal suffering, and Christian specificity proved especially effective.
William Lane Craig: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? · 2009
Craig advances a cumulative Christian case; Hitchens presses evidential burdens, inferential gaps, suffering, religious authority, and secular alternatives with greater consistency.
William Lane Craig: 78 · Christopher Hitchens: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Sam Harris: The God Debate II · 2011
Craig defended divine nature and commands as morality's foundation; Harris grounded value in conscious well-being, producing evenly matched strengths and unresolved explanatory burdens.
William Lane Craig: 79 · Sam Harris: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2023
Craig defended resurrection through comparative explanation and early testimony, while O'Connor pressed source reliability, natural alternatives, prior probability, and evidential expectations.
William Lane Craig: 86 · Alex O'Connor: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Sean Carroll: God and Cosmology · 2014
Craig argued that cosmic beginnings and fine-tuning favor theism; Carroll countered that self-contained models, measure sensitivity, and predictive discipline favor naturalism.
William Lane Craig: 83 · Sean Carroll: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Alex Malpass: Can Something Come From Nothing? · 2026
Craig defended causal necessity, finite-past paradoxes, and personal agency; Malpass more successfully exposed categorical causal gaps, coherent infinities, and underdetermined creator attributes.
William Lane Craig: 75 · Alex Malpass: 91. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Graham Oppy: Does Math Point to God? · 2020
Craig argues that mathematics’ predictive applicability favors intentional divine ordering; Oppy challenges the datum and offers naturalistic necessity, structural, and selection-based alternatives.
William Lane Craig: 81 · Graham Oppy: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Alex Malpass: Did the Universe Begin to Exist? · 2020
Craig defended actual-infinity, temporal-asymmetry, and successive-addition arguments; Malpass more effectively challenged their modal warrant, tense symmetry, quantification, and paradox-based support.
William Lane Craig: 79 · Alex Malpass: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs A. C. Grayling: Is Belief in God Reasonable in Light of Evil? · 2011
Craig defends theistic reasonableness through freedom, epistemic restraint, and total evidence; Grayling presses suffering, better-world feasibility, ordinary moral knowledge, and secular morality.
William Lane Craig: 84 · A. C. Grayling: 86. 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.
William Lane Craig vs Stephen Law: Does God Exist? · 2011
Craig’s cumulative creator, morality, and resurrection case met Law’s stronger suffering evidence and evil-God symmetry challenge, which remained insufficiently distinguished by providential skepticism.
William Lane Craig: 76 · Stephen Law: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Robert Price vs William Lane Craig: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 1999
Craig built a cumulative resurrection case from early sources; Price challenged its historical foundations through analogy, literary criticism, and ordinary belief-forming mechanisms.
William Lane Craig: 83 · Robert Price: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Peter Millican: Does God Exist? · 2011
Craig presented a cumulative Christian case; Millican’s calibrated challenges stressed underdetermination, alternative explanations, evidential reliability, suffering, and sincere nonbelief.
William Lane Craig: 75 · Peter Millican: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Shelly Kagan: Is God Necessary for Morality? · 2009
Kagan's secular realism answers Craig's grounding challenge most effectively on finite significance and prudential conflict, while Craig presses a substantial explanatory-value objection.
William Lane Craig: 76 · Shelly Kagan: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Paul Draper: The Existence of God · 1997
Craig advances a cumulative Christian case, while Draper’s disciplined comparative-likelihood framework more effectively integrates evolution, suffering, hiddenness, and qualified replies.
William Lane Craig: 78 · Paul Draper: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Erik Wielenberg: God and Morality · 2018
Craig defended divine nature and commands as morality’s foundation; Wielenberg answered with irreducible normativity, explanatory parity, and sharper replies on agency.
William Lane Craig: 80 · Erik Wielenberg: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Alex Rosenberg: Is Faith in God Reasonable? · 2013
Craig’s strongest replies preserved several theistic inferences, while Rosenberg effectively separated atheism from eliminativism and exposed unresolved explanatory and moral-grounding assumptions.
William Lane Craig: 81 · Alex Rosenberg: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Peter Atkins: Does God Exist? · 2011
Craig advances cumulative cosmological, moral, and resurrection arguments, then answers naturalistic objections concerning causality, evolution, suffering, miracles, and scientific method.
William Lane Craig: 83 · Peter Atkins: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs John Shook: The Existence of God · 2008
Craig presented cumulative theistic arguments; Shook's disciplined evidential restraint and targeted alternative explanations more consistently exposed unresolved bridges from nature to God.
William Lane Craig: 76 · John Shook: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Lawrence Krauss: Is There Evidence for God? · 2012
Craig advances a cumulative theistic inference; Krauss counters that natural alternatives, evidential uncertainty, secular morality, and ordinary history prevent decisive discrimination.
William Lane Craig: 83 · Lawrence Krauss: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Bart Ehrman: Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection? · 2006
Craig defended resurrection through cumulative explanatory comparison; Ehrman challenged source reliability, supernatural inference, and whether historical standards can distinguish bodily resurrection from alternatives.
William Lane Craig: 84 · Bart Ehrman: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Victor Stenger: Does God Exist? · 2010
Craig’s stronger modal, cosmological, moral, and cumulative replies outweighed Stenger’s empirical challenges from natural explanation, prayer, neuroscience, hiddenness, suffering, and disputed resurrection history.
William Lane Craig: 76 · Victor Stenger: 69. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does God Exist? William Lane Craig vs. Antony Flew · 1998
Flew narrowly prevailed because his disciplined evidential burden and domain objections exposed unresolved causal and probabilistic leaps across Craig's cumulative case.
William Lane Craig: 74 · Antony Flew: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Resurrection Evidence and Naturalistic Alternatives: William Lane Craig vs. Richard Carrier · 2009
Craig organized burial, appearances, and belief into a cumulative resurrection case, while Carrier challenged Gospel independence and preserved ordinary alternatives; their contrasting strengths produced a tie.
William Lane Craig: 80 · Richard Carrier: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Massimo Pigliucci — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2001
Craig prevailed through cumulative structure, sharper historical replies, and key conceptual distinctions, while Pigliucci led on scope and pressed serious evidential alternatives.
William Lane Craig: 78 · Massimo Pigliucci: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Austin Dacey — Does God Exist? · 2004
Dacey won by sustaining stronger comparative cases from hiddenness, suffering, embodied minds, and evolution while repeatedly undercutting Craig’s central explanatory bridges.
William Lane Craig: 73 · Austin Dacey: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Michael Tooley — Is God Real? · 2010
Craig’s cumulative theistic case confronts Tooley’s probabilistic evil argument, with moral perfection and inductive method ultimately deciding a narrowly stronger con case.
William Lane Craig: 77 · Michael Tooley: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Andrew Pyle — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2007
Pyle’s burden-sensitive critiques expose decisive identification and probability gaps, while Craig presents a clear cumulative case whose resurrection bridge remains contested.
William Lane Craig: 75 · Andrew Pyle: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Klemens Kappel — Does God Exist? · 2012
Craig’s cumulative theistic arguments face Kappel’s qualified atheism, comparative naturalism, and challenges concerning explanation, morality, testimony, and disagreement.
William Lane Craig: 78 · Klemens Kappel: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Michael Nugent — Does God Exist? · 2017
A close contest in which Nugent’s method and targeted rebuttals narrowly outperformed Craig’s structured cumulative case, while both left central grounding questions unresolved.
William Lane Craig: 76 · Michael Nugent: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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William Lane Craig, Jessica Frazier, Philip Goff, and Joe Folley: Did God Create Reality? · 2026
Craig defends classical Christian theism as the best explanation of reality and objective meaning; Frazier, Goff, and Folley press Hindu, mystical, and agnostic alternatives that complicate God, value, experience, and morality.
William Lane Craig: 80 · Jessica Frazier, Philip Goff, and Joe Folley: 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.