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Justin Schieber vs Randal Rauser — Religious Disagreement and God · 2017
Schieber’s calibrated comparative case outscored Rauser’s thoughtful but insufficiently evidenced appeals to permissive divine reasons and underdetermination.
Justin Schieber: 85 · Randal Rauser: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bart Ehrman vs James White — Does the Bible Misquote Jesus? · 2009
Ehrman narrowly prevailed by proving consequential local misattributions, while White strongly defended recoverable textual and theological continuity.
Bart Ehrman: 88 · James White: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stephen Meyer vs Peter Atkins — Intelligent Design and Science · 2010
Meyer’s qualified causal and methodological case outperformed Atkins’s naturalistic objections, chiefly by sharply separating functional sequence from spontaneous order and origins from later evolution.
Stephen Meyer: 80 · Peter Atkins: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Paulogia — Christianity’s Origins and the Resurrection · 2023
McLatchie wins narrowly by offering the more developed comparative explanation, while Paulogia exposes serious unresolved dependence on Gospel proximity, transmission, and source-specific reliability.
Jonathan McLatchie: 83 · Paulogia: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Swinburne vs Bart Ehrman — God and Suffering · 2009
Ehrman’s victim-centered, natural-evil, and scriptural challenges outweighed Swinburne’s coherent but incompletely warranted account of responsible freedom, sanctity, redemption, and heaven.
Richard Swinburne: 78 · Bart Ehrman: 85. 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.
Randal Rauser vs Dan Barker — Is the Christian God Worthy of Worship? · 2020
Rauser narrowly prevailed by making his Christian framework explicit and conditional, while Barker's victim-centered objections kept the central moral burden unresolved.
Randal Rauser: 83 · Dan Barker: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Shabir Ally — Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2018
Wood’s cumulative historical case leads, while Ally’s critical challenges expose narrative tensions without establishing his conditional survival-and-ascension alternative.
David Wood: 82 · Shabir Ally: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Robert Sapolsky — Do We Have Free Will? · 2023
Sapolsky narrowly prevailed by pressing unchosen causal origins, while Dennett built a strong compatibilist account of evolved, reasons-responsive self-control and humane responsibility.
Daniel Dennett: 82 · Robert Sapolsky: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Paulogia vs Michael Jones — Divine Hiddenness and a Perfectly Loving God · 2019
Paulogia narrowly wins through the one-exception burden and unequal disclosure, while Jones offers calibrated psychological, public-evidence, and postmortem compatibility replies.
Paulogia: 86 · Michael Jones: 83. 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.
Mike Winger vs Paulogia — Evidence for the Resurrection · 2018
Mike Winger and Paulogia dispute whether early resurrection reports, appearances, persecution, and the empty tomb make Jesus’s resurrection the best historical explanation.
Mike Winger: 82 · Paulogia: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Randal Rauser — Humanism or Christianity? · 2023
Matt Dillahunty and Randal Rauser compare secular humanism and mere Christianity as practical foundations for equal worth, moral judgment, solidarity, and present human flourishing.
Matt Dillahunty: 83 · Randal Rauser: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Trent Horn vs Paulogia — Did the Apostles Die for a Lie? · 2023
Horn argues that documented and foreseeable suffering supports apostolic sincerity; Paulogia answers that evidence for several named leaders cannot establish all eleven.
Trent Horn: 86 · Paulogia: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Paul Copan vs Randal Rauser — The Canaanite Conquest and a God of Love · 2022
Copan defends a historically grounded, hyperbolic conquest under exceptional divine judgment; Rauser argues that residual civilian targeting and identity destruction remain morally indefensible.
Paul Copan: 82 · Randal Rauser: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sean McDowell vs Paulogia — Apostolic Martyrdom and the Resurrection · 2020
McDowell argues costly apostolic persistence supports sincere resurrection belief, while Paulogia accepts key individuals but challenges group scope, death evidence, and the move from sincerity to truth.
Sean McDowell: 86 · Paulogia: 86. 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.
Randal Rauser vs Justin Schieber — Does God Exist? · 2015
Schieber’s comparative naturalist case better connects simplicity, hiddenness, cosmic hostility, and suffering to the motion, while Rauser offers serious epistemic and moral replies.
Randal Rauser: 76 · Justin Schieber: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Randal Rauser vs Alex Malpass — Does Suffering Provide Evidence Against Theism? · 2021
Malpass argues suffering favors indifference over classical theism; Rauser concedes the bare comparison while defending richer theistic background beliefs.
Alex Malpass: 87 · Randal Rauser: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Erik Wielenberg vs Adam Lloyd Johnson — What Is the Best Account of Objective Morality? · 2020
Wielenberg’s focused parity, intrinsic-value, and obligation challenges outperformed Johnson’s theistic grounding, though Johnson pressed a serious evolutionary reliability problem.
Adam Lloyd Johnson: 71 · Erik Wielenberg: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Shermer vs Luuk Vandeweghe — Are the Miracles of Jesus Unbelievable? · 2019
Shermer wins by pressing claim-specific evidence and comparative religious testimony, while Vandeweghe offers substantive but incompletely connected historical witness arguments.
Michael Shermer: 82 · Luuk Vandeweghe: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Adam Lloyd Johnson vs Dan Barker — Does God Exist? · 2022
Johnson narrowly wins by presenting the more integrated cumulative case, though Barker’s coherence and evidential objections substantially limit its force.
Adam Lloyd Johnson: 78 · Dan Barker: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Samuel Nesan vs Matt Dillahunty — Did Jesus Fulfill Prophecy? · 2021
Dillahunty’s two-stage demand for prospective specificity and independent event evidence outweighed Nesan’s thoughtful but insufficiently constrained cumulative covenant reading.
Samuel Nesan: 78 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Kyle Butt vs Dan Barker — Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2009
Dan Barker narrowly wins through stronger natural alternatives and direct corrections, while Kyle Butt delivers the best single rebuttal on testimony but leaves key biblical identification bridges unsupported.
Kyle Butt: 75 · Dan Barker: 78. 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.
Dinesh D’Souza vs Dan Barker — Does God Exist? · 2009
Barker narrowly wins by sustaining evidential restraint and sharper rebuttals, while D’Souza offers a broad cumulative case weakened by several unsupported inferential bridges.
Dinesh D'Souza: 72 · Dan Barker: 76. 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.
Blake Giunta vs Matt Dillahunty — Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2016
Dillahunty wins by separating early proclamation from resurrection, while Giunta offers substantial historical and Bayesian replies that leave important evidential bridges unresolved.
Blake Giunta: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Dennis Nørmark — Does God Exist? · 2014
Turek’s cumulative theistic case narrowly loses to Nørmark’s calibrated natural explanations, stronger concessions, and more consistent evidential burden.
Frank Turek: 74 · Dennis Nørmark: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Slick vs Dan Barker — Does God Exist? · 2014
Barker wins by controlling burdens, sharpening divine-coherence objections, and limiting prayer conclusions, while Slick raises serious grounding challenges without completing their Biblical bridge.
Matt Slick: 68 · Dan Barker: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Michael Tooley — Atheism and Christianity · 2013
Tooley wins by separating atheism from anti-Christian critique and pressing evil and prophecy; Lennox offers strong compatibility replies but leaves key positive warrants underdeveloped.
John Lennox: 73 · Michael Tooley: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Shermer vs Glen Scrivener — Can We Be Good Without God? · 2024
Scrivener narrowly wins by pressing universal human worth and outsider scope, while Shermer offers strong fallibilist reasons but leaves equal rights incompletely grounded.
Michael Shermer: 79 · Glen Scrivener: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Randal Rauser vs Aron Ra — Biblical Violence and Divine Revelation · 2022
Rauser won by offering a morally constrained, genre-sensitive, fallibilist account of revelation, while Aron's strongest internal critiques exposed unresolved evidential and doctrinal costs.
Randal Rauser: 85 · Aron Ra: 77. 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.
Eli Ayala vs Dan Barker — Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2026
Barker won by exposing the gap between transcendental theism and the biblical God, while Ayala effectively qualified prayer claims and challenged Barker's moral foundation.
Eli Ayala: 72 · Dan Barker: 78. 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.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Tom Jump — Does God Exist? · 2019
McLatchie’s cumulative Bayesian case narrowly prevailed, while Jump’s underdetermination challenges exposed unresolved comparisons behind its numerical confidence.
Jonathan McLatchie: 79 · Tom Jump: 76. 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.
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.
Andrew Loke vs Dan Linford — Physical Reality, Causation, and Beginnings · 2023
Linford’s carefully limited skepticism outperformed Loke’s positive case by separating first changes from total beginnings and sustaining nonmetric, timeless-grounding, and material-parity alternatives.
Andrew Loke: 70 · Dan Linford: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan Sacks vs Richard Dawkins — Science and Religion · 2012
Sacks defends compatibility through distinct roles and disciplined interpretation, while Dawkins more successfully presses whether religious purpose and supernatural premises have independent warrant.
Jonathan Sacks: 77 · Richard Dawkins: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Douglas Wilson — Truth, Goodness, and Beauty · 2008
Wilson argues that theism grounds reason, value, and purposeful beauty; Hitchens answers with human responsibility, secular awe, skeptical inquiry, and stricter tests for miracles.
Douglas Wilson: 75 · Christopher Hitchens: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Blake Giunta — Faith and Rational Justification · 2018
A closely matched exchange tests whether theism needs prior possibility evidence or may enter ordinary comparative inference, with Dillahunty prevailing by one point.
Matt Dillahunty: 83 · Blake Giunta: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Miles K. Donahue vs Dan Linford — Fine-Tuning and Theism · 2026
Linford’s measure and model-flexibility objections outperformed Donahue’s modest fine-tuning case, whose strongest distinctions remained burdened by unsupported probability assignments.
Miles K. Donahue: 80 · Dan Linford: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Deepak Chopra vs Richard Dawkins — Consciousness, Cosmic Purpose, and Spirituality · 2013
Dawkins wins through scale-sensitive emergence arguments and precise criticism of quantum equivocation; Chopra’s strongest reply challenges confidence in promised brain-only explanation.
Deepak Chopra: 66 · Richard Dawkins: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Dembski vs Christopher Hitchens — Does a good God exist? · 2010
Hitchens wins by exposing the gap between design and a good providential God, while Dembski offers careful limits and several effective scientific replies.
William Dembski: 71 · Christopher Hitchens: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sam Harris vs Jonathan Haidt — Religion, moral truth, and human flourishing · 2016
Two naturalists contest whether broad well-being can ground moral truth, with Harris strongest on scope and Haidt strongest on psychology, institutions, and plural goods.
Sam Harris: 82 · Jonathan Haidt: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Al Sharpton vs Christopher Hitchens — God, religion, and morality · 2007
Sharpton narrowed the case to personal theism, but Hitchens won by separating private belief from public warrant and supplying stronger naturalistic alternatives.
Al Sharpton: 76 · Christopher Hitchens: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Shmuley Boteach vs Christopher Hitchens — God and morality · 2008
Boteach grounds design and human worth in a personal God; Hitchens answers with natural explanation, moral autonomy, and challenges to interventionist religion.
Shmuley Boteach: 74 · Christopher Hitchens: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bernardo Kastrup vs Susan Blackmore — Consciousness and illusion · 2023
Blackmore’s disciplined challenges expose gaps in Kastrup’s elegant idealist account, especially around boundaries and evidence, while her limited method avoids claiming a rival metaphysics.
Bernardo Kastrup: 75 · Susan Blackmore: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James White vs Robert Price — Is the Bible true? · 2010
White narrowly wins through manuscript-stream and contextual replies, while Price’s strongest challenges expose methodological limits, oral flexibility, and inerrancy’s interpretive costs.
James White: 81 · Robert Price: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Peter Atkins vs Stephen Law — Science or philosophy? · 2014
Atkins champions evidence-driven scientific expansion; Law concedes science’s empirical authority while defending conceptual analysis, ultimate explanation, and moral justification as indispensable.
Peter Atkins: 65 · Stephen Law: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Aron Ra vs Michael Jones — Is Christianity dangerous? · 2019
Aron documents scriptural and social harms, but Jones wins by repeatedly separating Christian identity from causation and challenging unadjusted comparisons.
Aron Ra: 75 · Michael Jones: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier — Did Jesus rise from the dead? · 2004
Licona narrowly prevails through cumulative historical breadth, while Carrier’s Pauline, visionary, source-critical, and prior-probability challenges keep every decisive inference closely contested.
Mike Licona: 82 · Richard Carrier: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe Knechtle & Stuart Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty & Joshua Bowen: Is the Bible's treatment of slavery morally defensible? · 2021
The critics prevail by grounding ownership and coercion in specific texts, while the defenders’ canonical trajectory never fully reconciles those legal permissions.
Cliffe Knechtle & Stuart Knechtle: 69 · Matt Dillahunty & Joshua Bowen: 85. 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.
Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Would a loving God allow the evil and suffering found in our world? · 2020
O'Connor more effectively presses evidential justification and selective prevention, while Jones offers qualified defenses through freedom, virtue, and eventual recovery from suffering.
Michael Jones: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs Max Baker-Hytch: Could God Be Evil? · 2021
O'Connor narrowly leads through character-focused objections and reciprocal creation motives, while Baker-Hytch excels at scope distinctions and qualifies the final mixed-world comparison.
Alex O'Connor: 84 · Max Baker-Hytch: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James Anderson vs Tom Jump: Logic and Belief in God · 2020
Anderson develops stronger distinctions about shared truth and representation; Jump effectively separates necessary reality from contingent language, while the divine-mind route remains incomplete.
James Anderson: 79 · Tom Jump: 74. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matthew Adelstein vs Lance Bush: Moral Realism · 2021
Adelstein offers reflective and experiential evidence for realism; Bush more effectively challenges its interpretation, while both distinguish hypothetical consistency from harmful endorsement.
Matthew Adelstein: 79 · Lance Bush: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Tomaszewski vs Joe Schmid: Classical Theism and Monotheism · 2020
Joe more effectively exposes gaps in the uniqueness arguments; Christopher clarifies conceptual existence and extrinsic predication, with both sides leaving substantive explanatory questions open.
Christopher Tomaszewski: 82 · Joe Schmid: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Joe Folley vs Glen Scrivener: Goodness Without God · 2025
Folley more successfully separates historical influence from necessary grounding, while Scrivener offers substantive Christian interpretations without establishing their exclusivity against non-theistic alternatives.
Joe Folley: 85 · Glen Scrivener: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Gregory Pine vs Joseph Schmid: Is Divine Simplicity True? · 2021
Pine develops a coherent classical framework, but Schmid more effectively isolates missing causal bridges and unresolved differences between necessary divinity and contingent knowledge.
Gregory Pine: 75 · Joseph Schmid: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Philip Goff vs Joe Folley: Consciousness, Mystical Experience, and Fine-Tuning · 2026
Goff offers a unified consciousness-based worldview; Folley’s targeted challenges to extrapolation, mystical warrant, and cosmic probability produce the stronger overall evidential case.
Philip Goff: 81 · Joe Folley: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Joseph Schmid: Does the Contingency Argument Support God? · 2022
Schmid won by fourteen points because his focused underdetermination objections repeatedly exposed unsupported transitions in Jones’s ambitious, wide-ranging explanatory case.
Michael Jones: 73 · Joseph Schmid: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Slick vs Aron Ra: Is Christianity True? · 2014
Slick excelled on foundational challenges and expert-reference precision; Aron prevailed on belief versus truth and explanatory accountability, producing an exact overall tie.
Matt Slick: 73 · Aron Ra: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James White vs John Dominic Crossan: Is the Bible True? · 2005
White prevailed by one point through stronger textual rebuttals on Passion harmony and miracles, while Crossan dominated source dependence and narrowly won resurrection framing.
James White: 78 · John Dominic Crossan: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Keith Ward vs Stephen Law: Does God Exist? · 2015
Law’s evidential and symmetry challenges outscored Ward’s carefully limited mind-like theism, especially on suffering, hypothesis discrimination, and experiential reliability.
Keith Ward: 70 · Stephen Law: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Swinburne vs Philip Goff: What Best Explains Cosmic Purpose? · 2023
Goff wins by separating cosmic purpose from omnipotence and fitting suffering better, while Swinburne offers substantial design, freedom, compensation, and simplicity defenses.
Richard Swinburne: 76 · Philip Goff: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris: Can Religious Narratives Ground Morality and Meaning? · 2018
Harris wins narrowly by separating religious narratives’ genuine usefulness from truth and necessity, while Peterson exposes unresolved problems in secular value selection.
Jordan Peterson: 75 · Sam Harris: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stuart Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity Rational? · 2023
Knechtle offered cumulative historical, moral, and experiential support for Christianity; Dillahunty prevailed by demanding stronger links from reports and effects to supernatural conclusions.
Stuart Knechtle: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Licona vs Bart Ehrman: Can Historians Prove the Resurrection? · 2008
Ehrman prevailed 79–78 by narrowly pairing strong source criticism and public-evidence burdens against Licona’s comparatively sophisticated but incompletely warranted resurrection inference.
Michael Licona: 78 · Bart Ehrman: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Eric Sampson vs Lance Bush: Is Moral Realism True? · 2022
Sampson narrowly prevails by defining a limited realism and defending its intelligibility, while Bush supplies powerful underdetermination and genealogy challenges that remain evidentially incomplete.
Eric Sampson: 82 · Lance Bush: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Eric Hernandez vs Tom Jump: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Existence of the Soul · 2019
Hernandez defends a nonphysical soul through rational agency, mental properties, personhood, and private consciousness; Jump prevails by emphasizing coherence, physical explanation, and predictive evidence.
Eric Hernandez: 72 · Tom Jump: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Iain McGilchrist vs Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness, God, Truth, and Purpose · 2025
Both consciousness-first accounts converged substantially, but Kastrup’s sharper perspectival distinctions and replies narrowly surpassed McGilchrist’s richer yet less-warranted value-directed participatory case.
Iain McGilchrist: 77 · Bernardo Kastrup: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Dawkins vs Alister McGrath: Is Christianity Rational? · 2006
Dawkins wins by pressing evidence, complexity, Christian specificity, and selective providence more successfully, while McGrath offers a thoughtful but incompletely warranted integrative worldview.
Alister McGrath: 71 · Richard Dawkins: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Philip Goff vs Graham Oppy: Is Finite Theism Preferable to Naturalism? · 2026
Goff’s finite God unifies purposive value and suffering through limited power; Oppy’s naturalism counters with simplicity, modal uncertainty, and evolutionary explanation, producing a tie.
Philip Goff: 79 · Graham Oppy: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does the Soul Exist? Eric Hernandez vs. Aron Ra · 2020
Hernandez made a serious philosophical case from consciousness and personal unity, but Aron Ra’s cumulative brain-dependence evidence and burden challenge narrowly prevailed.
Eric Hernandez: 74 · Aron Ra: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does Analytic Idealism Better Explain Reality? Bernardo Kastrup vs. Graham Oppy · 2021
Kastrup makes consciousness and qualitative experience the central explanatory test; Oppy narrowly prevails by clarifying pluralistic naturalism, identity, underdetermination, and balanced theory choice.
Bernardo Kastrup: 81 · Graham Oppy: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Did Jesus Exist? Craig Evans vs. Richard Carrier · 2016
Carrier prevailed 80–79 because Pauline ambiguity and limits on gospel corroboration narrowly outweighed Evans’s early letters, Josephus defense, and carefully qualified historical method.
Craig Evans: 79 · Richard Carrier: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does the New Testament Misquote Jesus? Bart Ehrman vs. Craig Evans · 2010
Ehrman wins 85–83, chiefly through concrete contradictions and saying-level variants; Evans nearly matches him with historically secure cores, eyewitness-linked transmission, and contextual corroboration.
Bart Ehrman: 85 · Craig Evans: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is God the Answer to Our Meaning Crisis? Elizabeth Oldfield vs. James Marriott · 2026
Marriott prevailed by three points through a clearer ultimate-versus-proximate distinction, stronger scrutiny of spiritual intuition, and more consistent burden contact, despite Oldfield’s effective anti-reductionist replies.
Elizabeth Oldfield: 75 · James Marriott: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is the Doctrine of Purgatory True? Trent Horn vs. James White · 2024
White wins by one point because his contextual exegesis and Romans argument slightly outweigh Horn's definitional clarification, purification syllogism, and historical continuity case.
Trent Horn: 79 · James White: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does Analytic Idealism Explain Consciousness Better? Bernardo Kastrup vs. Tom Jump · 2023
Kastrup narrowly wins by pressing materialism’s qualitative explanatory gap, while Jump preserves materialism’s viability through epistemic caution, composition challenges, and realization possibilities.
Bernardo Kastrup: 83 · Tom Jump: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is Superdeterminism Scientifically Justified? Sabine Hossenfelder vs. Bernardo Kastrup · 2022
Hossenfelder narrowly prevails by defending model-specific, local, testable research, while Kastrup exposes unresolved mechanisms, evidential motivation, and operational specification.
Sabine Hossenfelder: 85 · Bernardo Kastrup: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Science and Belief in God: Francis Collins vs. Richard Dawkins · 2022
Collins preserves rational space through compatibility and cumulative signposts, but Dawkins wins by stronger natural explanations and sharper challenges concerning redundancy, suffering, and selective miracles.
Francis Collins: 76 · Richard Dawkins: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does God Exist? John Lennox vs. Michael Shermer · 2008
Shermer’s disciplined evidential restraint narrowly prevailed over Lennox’s wide-ranging cumulative case, chiefly through stronger replies on suffering, historical underdetermination, and uncertainty.
John Lennox: 76 · Michael Shermer: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is Moral Realism Better Supported? Michael Huemer vs. Don Loeb · 2022
Huemer’s intuitive and convergence-based realism met Loeb’s semantic, explanatory, and practical alternatives; mixed evidence narrowly left anti-realism at least equally plausible.
Michael Huemer: 80 · Don Loeb: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does Christian Conversion Establish Truth? Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Alex O'Connor · 2024
Hirsi Ali established sincere transformation and cultural attraction, but O’Connor decisively separated those benefits from evidence for Christianity’s supernatural truth claims.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 71 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is God a Figment of Our Imagination? Michael Shermer vs. Alister McGrath · 2017
Shermer prevailed by connecting religious diversity, evidential burdens, naturalistic morality, and unfalsifiability to human construction, while McGrath offered thoughtful but less evidentially complete defenses of faith.
Michael Shermer: 77 · Alister McGrath: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Has New Atheism Failed? Alister McGrath vs. Alex O'Connor · 2023
Con wins 83–73 by separating atheism from New Atheism’s defects and decisively exposing Pro’s unresolved covenant, slavery, and Leviticus problems.
Alister McGrath: 73 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Religious Belief as an Obligation: Ross Douthat vs. Alex O'Connor · 2026
O’Connor’s skeptical case won 84–69, chiefly by exposing underdetermination, hiddenness, and suffering while Douthat offered a substantive but incompletely warranted cumulative case.
Ross Douthat: 69 · Alex O'Connor: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Religion, Science, and Meaning: Sam Harris vs. David Wolpe · 2007
Sam Harris wins for scientific naturalism and evidential skepticism, defeating David Wolpe’s religious meaning and transcendent faith position by the locked 83-68 score.
David Wolpe: 68 · Sam Harris: 83. 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.
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.
Capitalism, Marxism, and Human Happiness: Jordan Peterson vs. Slavoj Žižek · 2019
Žižek prevailed 78–75 by separating capitalist prosperity from happiness and democratic freedom, while Peterson strongly defended poverty reduction, material security, responsibility, and meaning.
Jordan Peterson: 75 · Slavoj Žižek: 78. 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.
Divine Hiddenness and Evidential Ambiguity: Julian Baggini vs. Max Baker-Hytch · 2025
Baker-Hytch narrowly prevailed by probabilistically integrating hiddenness with relational and cumulative evidence, while Baggini pressed cultural contingency, geographic luck, and experiential mediation.
Julian Baggini: 80 · Max Baker-Hytch: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Divine Hiddenness and Religious Evidence: Joe Schmid vs. Dan Paterson · 2026
Schmid won by arguing that nonculpable nonbelief, demographic clustering, and silence amid tragedy fit naturalism better, while Paterson's temporary-redemption defenses remained comparatively under-supported.
Joe Schmid: 88 · Dan Paterson: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Divine Hiddenness and a Loving God: Alex O'Connor vs. Lukas Ruegger · 2022
Alex O'Connor prevailed by separating public arguments from personally accessible revelation and pressing nonresistant seeking and delayed disclosure, while Lukas Ruegger countered with cumulative evidence, fallible introspection, individualized pathways, and delay's possible goods.
Alex O'Connor: 85 · Lukas Ruegger: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Divine Hiddenness and Christian Love: Tyler Vela vs. Michael Jones · 2023
Tyler Vela’s hiddenness critique wins by pressing loving availability, avoidable world design, and less-hidden alternatives more consistently than Michael Jones establishes sanctification, soul formation, and individualized disclosure.
Tyler Vela: 83 · Michael Jones: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Memes, Archetypes, and Religious Truth: Jordan Peterson vs. Richard Dawkins · 2024
Scientific naturalism wins 86–74 by separating symbolic usefulness from factual warrant, demanding traceable evidence, and explaining cultural transmission naturally, while symbolic realism remains strongest on narrative prioritization and action-guiding compression.
Jordan Peterson: 74 · Richard Dawkins: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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.
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.
Can There Be Morality Without God? Dinesh D'Souza vs. Peter Singer · 2008
Dinesh D'Souza and Peter Singer dispute whether moral obligations require God. D'Souza presses conscience, equality, sacrifice, history, and duty's authority, while Singer answers through reason, universal consideration, ethical progress, and Euthyphro.
Dinesh D'Souza: 71 · Peter Singer: 81. 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.
Is Belief in God a Delusion? Richard Dawkins vs. John Lennox · 2007
Dawkins prevailed narrowly by pressing natural explanations, evidential scrutiny, and secular accounts of morality, while Lennox answered strongly on evidential faith, science's limits, and Christian distinctiveness.
Richard Dawkins: 76 · John Lennox: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does the Soul Exist? Eric Hernandez vs. Matt Dillahunty · 2015
Dillahunty prevailed through verification demands, brain dependence, and physical alternatives, while Hernandez offered a broad metaphysical case whose central necessity inferences remained under-supported.
Eric Hernandez: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 82. 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.
Dustin Crummett vs Ben Watkins: Does the Soul Exist? · 2020
Crummett narrowly prevails, pairing fission cases with contingent psychophysical laws, while Watkins offers empirically grounded monism but overstates closure and conservation arguments.
Dustin Crummett: 82 · Ben Watkins: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Ferrer vs Matt Dillahunty: Do We Need God for Morality? · 2018
Ferrer grounds categorical morality and knowledge in God while Dillahunty defends publicly correctable wellbeing judgments and challenges scripture as divine guidance.
John Ferrer: 67 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Iain McGilchrist vs Anil Seth: Does Consciousness Point to God? · 2026
McGilchrist argues that consciousness, value, and directionality indicate a divine relational ground; Seth answers with biological emergence, thermodynamics, and methodological restraint.
Iain McGilchrist: 74 · Anil Seth: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Huemer vs Joshua Rasmussen: Does God Exist? · 2026
Rasmussen advances a cumulative explanatory case for God, while Huemer presses competing finite-creator, multiverse, infinity, and evidential suffering objections.
Josh Rasmussen: 77 · Michael Huemer: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bertrand Russell vs Frederick Copleston: Does God Exist? · 1948
Copleston develops contingency, religious-experience, and moral arguments for God; Russell narrowly prevails by exposing modal, evidential, and normative explanatory gaps.
Frederick Copleston: 78 · Bertrand Russell: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Swinburne vs Peter Millican: Does God Exist? · 2022
Swinburne defended personal explanation, simplicity, freedom, and compensation; Millican pressed predictive specificity, scientific background, divine coherence, embodiment, and victim-centered suffering.
Richard Swinburne: 81 · Peter Millican: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Dominic Crossan vs Michael Licona: Who Was the Historical Jesus? · 2018
Crossan defended a kingdom-centered, metaphorical resurrection account, while Licona pressed early-source, divine-identity, and bodily-transformation evidence through disciplined historical distinctions.
John Dominic Crossan: 82 · Michael Licona: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James Tour vs S. Joshua Swamidass: How Close Is Origin-of-Life Science? · 2020
Tour demands an integrated chemical pathway to first life, while Swamidass defends limited clues, probabilistic uncertainty, empirical testing, and scientific agnosticism.
James Tour: 80 · S. Joshua Swamidass: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Ruse vs Fuz Rana: Evolution or Design at Life's Origin? · 2013
Ruse defended cumulative chemical and evolutionary explanations, while Rana pressed chemical constraints, cellular integration, testability, and positive indicators of intelligent agency.
Michael Ruse: 82 · Fuz Rana: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Huemer vs Graham Oppy: Do Souls Exist? · 2022
Huemer argues that irreducible mentality requires a surviving soul, while Oppy offers multiscale naturalism, brain dependence, and cosmological objections to that inference.
Michael Huemer: 76 · Graham Oppy: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James Tour vs Lee Cronin: Are We Close to Discovering the Origin of Life? · 2020
Tour pressed unresolved cellular thresholds and evidential overstatement; Cronin defended experimentally testable chemical organization while carefully conceding uncertainty about historical sequence.
James Tour: 82 · Lee Cronin: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bernardo Kastrup vs Susan Blackmore: What Is Consciousness? · 2023
Kastrup grounds reality in consciousness, while Blackmore argues that neutral representation better exposes idealism's unresolved structure, boundaries, and causal differentiation.
Bernardo Kastrup: 83 · Susan Blackmore: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Keith Ward vs Daniel Dennett: Are We More Than Matter? · 2019
Ward defends irreducible consciousness, value, identity, and agency; Dennett answers through evolved computation, higher-level explanation, emergent purpose, and compatibilist control.
Keith Ward: 76 · Daniel Dennett: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Huemer vs Robert Sapolsky: Does Free Will Exist—and Does It Matter? · 2024
Huemer challenges the leap from pervasive causal influence to determination, while Sapolsky explains mechanistic change and presses a humane rejection of retributive desert.
Michael Huemer: 83 · Robert Sapolsky: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Gregg Caruso: Free Will and Moral Responsibility · 2021
Caruso’s carefully delimited desert skepticism and forward-looking alternatives outperform Dennett’s practical compatibilism, whose institutional strengths leave ultimate sourcehood and desert’s independent role unresolved.
Daniel Dennett: 79 · Gregg Caruso: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Enoch & Eric Sampson vs Don Loeb & Matthew Lutz: Is Moral Realism True? · 2024
Enoch and Sampson defend robust moral realism through Moorean cases and rational reflection; Loeb and Lutz argue that desire-relative reasons and a naturalistic explanation of moral experience make such facts unnecessary.
David Enoch & Eric Sampson: 92 · Don Loeb & Matthew Lutz: 91. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Enoch vs Justin Clarke-Doane: Moral Realism and Objectivity · 2026
Enoch grounds moral objectivity in stance-independent facts and ordinary deliberation, while confronting rival-package, noncognitivist, and reflective-anomaly challenges to action guidance.
David Enoch: 84 · Justin Clarke-Doane: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James White vs Shabir Ally: Sin and Salvation in the Qur'an and the Bible · 2013
White grounds forgiveness in Christ’s law-satisfying atonement; Ally defends direct, equitable mercy and accountable deeds while challenging inherited guilt and biblical continuity.
James White: 79 · Shabir Ally: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Gary Habermas vs Antony Flew: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2000
Habermas assembled convergent historical and bodily evidence, while Flew pressed source limitations, natural underdetermination, and the need for justified theological priors.
Gary Habermas: 87 · Antony Flew: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Shabir Ally vs Michael Licona: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2004
Licona presented a cumulative bodily-resurrection inference; Ally narrowly prevailed by sustaining uncertainty about death, physical appearances, empty-tomb implications, and narrative development.
Michael Licona: 83 · Shabir Ally: 85. 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.
Bart Ehrman vs Michael Licona: Who Wrote the Gospels? · 2025
Licona defended traditional Gospel authority through convergent testimony and collaboration; Ehrman prevailed by separating compatibility and reliability from identity-specific authorship evidence.
Michael Licona: 81 · Bart Ehrman: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bart Ehrman vs Daniel B. Wallace: Can We Trust the Text of the New Testament? · 2011
Wallace defended probabilistic textual recovery through abundant branching witnesses; Ehrman conceded broad continuity but showed that reconstructing their ancestor does not establish autographic identity.
Daniel B. Wallace: 83 · Bart Ehrman: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bart Ehrman vs Peter J. Williams: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? · 2018
Williams defended cumulative contextual and theological continuity, while Ehrman more successfully separated informed settings from reliable events, highlighting provenance gaps and narrative conflicts.
Peter J. Williams: 83 · Bart Ehrman: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Graham Oppy vs Kenny Pearce: Is There a God? · 2022
Pearce develops theistic grounding and experiential arguments, while Oppy presses symmetrical naturalistic alternatives, epistemic calibration, and religious diversity as stronger comparative explanations.
Kenny Pearce: 84 · Graham Oppy: 88. 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.
John Onaiyekan & Ann Widdecombe vs Stephen Fry & Christopher Hitchens: The Catholic Church Is a Force for Good in the World · 2009
Onaiyekan and Widdecombe emphasize global welfare, spiritual hope, and reform within a fallible institution; Fry and Hitchens argue that those benefits do not outweigh institutional abuse, sexual control, public-health obstruction, and unaccountable authority.
John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe: 78 · Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens: 92. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Alister McGrath: Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World · 2007
Hitchens pressed evidential, coercive, and secular-moral objections; McGrath defended interpretive openness, transcendent morality, restorative doctrine, and Christianity's nonviolent norms.
Alister McGrath: 80 · Christopher Hitchens: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Tony Blair: Is Religion a Force for Good in the World? · 2010
Blair emphasized faith-inspired service, reconciliation, pluralism, and purpose; Hitchens countered with doctrinal harm, sacred conflict, secular alternatives, and stricter causal comparison.
Tony Blair: 83 · Christopher Hitchens: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Peter Singer vs John Lennox: Is There a God? · 2011
Lennox presents a cumulative Christian explanation of reason, value, hope, and Jesus; Singer answers with naturalistic alternatives, evidential demands, and suffering.
John Lennox: 75 · Peter Singer: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Lawrence Krauss: Science, the Universe, and the God Question · 2013
Lennox argues that intelligibility, fine-tuning, and existence favor divine mind; Krauss counters with physical explanations, selection effects, and demanding evidential standards.
John Lennox: 76 · Lawrence Krauss: 84. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Steven Pinker vs Ross Douthat: Do We Need God? · 2026
Douthat defended transcendent foundations for morality and meaning, while Pinker argued that secular reason, reciprocity, and institutions adequately support flourishing and progress.
Ross Douthat: 80 · Steven Pinker: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Aron Ra: Is Naturalism True? · 2023
Wood challenges naturalism's warrant for abstract cognition; Aron Ra defends provisional, publicly corrected inquiry while requiring objective evidence for supernatural additions.
David Wood: 81 · Aron Ra: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Jonathan McLatchie: Is There Strong Evidence for the Resurrection? · 2020
McLatchie built a cumulative resurrection case from early testimony; Dillahunty prevailed by challenging source independence, testability, alternative explanations, and evidential thresholds.
Dr Jonathan McLatchie: 78 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Lewis Howitt: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Howitt develops a necessary Logos and Trinitarian metaphysics; Dillahunty challenges its evidential standards, Christian specificity, divine coherence, and treatment of classical logic.
Lewis Howitt (PerspectivePhilosophy): 71 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sam Harris vs Dennis Prager: Religion, Morality, and Public Reason · 2014
Prager defends divine authority through moral durability and historical performance; Harris advances conscious wellbeing, open inquiry, and cooperation while challenging scriptural reliability.
Dennis Prager: 70 · Sam Harris: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Michael Shermer: Is Morality Better Explained by God or Science? · 2015
Turek pressed divine grounding and the is-ought gap; Shermer answered through sentient flourishing, autonomy, evolved capacities, and challenges about religious reliability.
Frank Turek: 76 · Michael Shermer: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Greg Koukl, Alex O'Connor, and Alok Kanojia: Does Nonbelief Cause More Harm Than Good? · 2025
Koukl defends Christian theism as the objective basis for purpose and morality; O'Connor and Alok Kanojia distinguish truth claims from subjective purpose while offering philosophical, clinical, and spiritual alternatives.
Greg Koukl: 67 · Alex O'Connor and Alok Kanojia: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs Dr Alex Carter: Free Will and Determinism · 2024
O'Connor pressed ultimate-source objections and practical compassion; Carter more strongly defended graded, attributable agency while preserving interpersonal and normative dimensions.
Alex O'Connor: 79 · Alex Carter: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stuart Knechtle vs Aron Ra: Does God Exist? · 2023
Knechtle advances cumulative theistic arguments from order, reason, morality, and Jesus; Aron Ra counters through evidential standards, natural explanations, and religious unreliability.
Stuart Knechtle: 71 · Aron Ra: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Matt Dillahunty: God or Secular Humanism? · 2020
Wood pressed categorical obligation and transcendent worth, while Dillahunty more effectively defended revisable secular ethics and exposed gaps in divine grounding.
David Wood: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Licona vs Matt Dillahunty: Was Jesus Raised from the Dead? · 2017
Licona defended resurrection through historical and comparative inference; Dillahunty more effectively separated reported events, unexplained anomalies, supernatural classification, and justified causal attribution.
Mike Licona: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Eben Alexander and Raymond Moody vs Sean Carroll and Steven Novella: Is Death Final? · 2014
Alexander and Moody argue that near-death and shared-death experiences reveal consciousness beyond the brain; Carroll and Novella argue that vivid experience and testimony do not outweigh evidence that minds depend on brains.
Eben Alexander and Raymond Moody: 58 · Sean Carroll and Steven Novella: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Baggett vs Matt Dillahunty: The Moral Argument for God · 2018
Baggett’s qualified theistic explanation meets Dillahunty’s secular mechanisms, candidacy constraints, access objections, and hiddenness challenge across moral authority, knowledge, transformation, and flourishing.
David Baggett: 85 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Philip Clayton: Naturalism and Ultimate Reality · 2012
Dennett defends naturalistic explanations and epistemic accountability, while Clayton argues for subjective realism, religious integration, and a deeper ultimate reality.
Daniel Dennett: 85 · Philip Clayton: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sam Harris vs Daniel Dennett: Does Free Will Exist? · 2018
Harris challenges ultimate authorship under causation, while Dennett defends graded, reasons-responsive control and pragmatic responsibility without metaphysical self-creation.
Sam Harris: 82 · Daniel Dennett: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is God a Human Invention? · 2007
Dennett advances naturalistic explanations of religion, cosmos, mind, and morality, while D'Souza defends divine reality through conceptual, cosmological, experiential, and moral arguments.
Daniel Dennett: 80 · Dinesh D'Souza: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alvin Plantinga vs Daniel Dennett: Science, Religion, and Evolution · 2018
Plantinga establishes evolutionary compatibility with divine guidance, while Dennett separates possibility from evidence and offers a narrowly stronger naturalistic account of cognitive reliability.
Alvin Plantinga: 83 · Daniel Dennett: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Tyler Vela vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Good Evidence for God? · 2020
Vela grounds transcendental facts in a necessary personal mind; Dillahunty argues that the inference remains underspecified, comparatively unsupported, and evidentially nondiscriminating.
Tyler Vela: 76 · Matt Dillahunty: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ray Comfort vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Gospel Make Sense? · 2020
Comfort defended guilt, substitution, and faith-based salvation; Dillahunty pressed stronger challenges concerning responsibility, atonement, evidential method, and testability.
Ray Comfort: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ben Fischer vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Good Evidence for God? · 2020
Fischer defended axiomatic theism, causal agency, and testimony; Dillahunty pressed discriminating evidence, modal justification, consistent standards, and identifiable divine attribution.
Ben Fischer: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Kenny Rhodes vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Evidence for God? · 2021
Rhodes defended a metaphysical route from finite composition to classical theism; Dillahunty pressed evidential, ontological, agency, identification, and hiddenness objections.
Kenny Rhodes: 70 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matthew Adelstein vs Matt Dillahunty: Should We Believe in God? · 2025
Adelstein presented a cumulative Bayesian case for theism, while Dillahunty more consistently exposed underdetermined likelihoods, divine motives, and omnimax identification.
Matthew Adelstein: 81 · Matt Dillahunty: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Albrecht vs Robert Price: Did Jesus Bodily Rise from the Dead? · 2022
Albrecht defended bodily continuity through early testimony and textual distinctions; Price narrowly prevailed by pressing historical method, provenance uncertainty, and ordinary alternative explanations.
William Albrecht: 78 · Robert Price: 80. 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.
Ross Douthat vs Bart Ehrman: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2026
Douthat pressed witness continuity and resurrection strangeness; Ehrman narrowly prevailed through source criticism, calibrated historical method, and a multistage visionary reconstruction.
Ross Douthat: 84 · Bart Ehrman: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bart Ehrman vs Robert Price: Did Jesus Exist? · 2016
Ehrman advances convergent historical evidence for Jesus; Price challenges source independence, terrestrial Pauline readings, chronology, and whether an ordinary founder explains Christianity.
Bart Ehrman: 86 · Robert Price: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Dennis R. MacDonald vs Richard Carrier: Did Jesus Exist? · 2025
MacDonald defended a mortal Jewish teacher later mythologized; Carrier’s revelatory-origin model and challenges to literary and Josephian evidence narrowly prevailed.
Dennis R. MacDonald: 79 · Richard Carrier: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Nathan Hawkins vs Joe Folley: Free Will, Compatibilism, and Idealism · 2026
Hawkins defended libertarian idealism through normativity and experiential completeness, while Folley’s modal distinctions and disciplined pragmatism applied stronger comparative pressure.
Nathan Hawkins: 77 · Joe Folley: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Richard Carrier: Did Paul Believe in a Celestial Jesus? · 2018
Carrier narrowly prevailed by pressing Pauline ambiguity and source dependence, while McLatchie answered most forcefully through contextual analysis of the crucifying rulers.
Jonathan McLatchie: 80 · Richard Carrier: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stephen Boyce vs Richard Carrier: Did Jesus Exist? · 2022
Boyce defended an earthly historical Jesus through Paul, kinship, and corroboration; Carrier pressed celestial compatibility, source dependence, ambiguity, and alternative appearance explanations.
Stephen Boyce: 78 · Richard Carrier: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2010
Licona argued resurrection best explains early testimony; Carrier countered that prior probability, visionary mechanisms, and source limitations preserve stronger natural explanations.
Mike Licona: 80 · Richard Carrier: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alvin Plantinga vs Stephen Law: Is the EAAN Successful? · 2010
Plantinga develops a self-defeat argument from evolutionary reliability doubts, while Law counters with adaptive truth-tracking, content constraints, and skeptical parity.
Alvin Plantinga: 81 · Stephen Law: 81. 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.
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.
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.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Alex O'Connor: Bible Slavery, Women, and Forgiveness · 2024
The Knechtles defend Christianity as a coherent gospel of grace, meaning, value, and divine justice; O'Connor presses the hardest biblical and doctrinal cases against that moral portrait.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sam Harris vs Jordan Peterson: God, Atheism, The Bible, Jesus · 2018
Peterson defends religious narrative as moral mediation and embodied guidance; Harris argues that well-being, causal inquiry, and revisability provide clearer secular foundations.
Jordan Peterson: 78 · Sam Harris: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Gregory Pine vs Alex O'Connor: The Divine Hiddenness Problem · 2024
O'Connor presses sincere nonbelief, unequal access, culpability, and inherited deprivation; Pine answers through universal grace, temporal formation, providence, and recoverable gratuitous gifts.
Gregory Pine: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 87. 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.
Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox: Has Science Buried God? · 2017
Lennox defended theism's explanatory compatibility and Christian implications; Dawkins more consistently pressed evolutionary alternatives, creator complexity, anthropic selection, and independent evidential burdens.
John Lennox: 76 · Richard Dawkins: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Alex O'Connor: Is Christianity True? · 2019
McLatchie defended Christianity through resurrection testimony and contextual reconciliation; O'Connor challenged source sufficiency, theological inference, biblical morality, and animal-suffering explanations.
Jonathan McLatchie: 83 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Send People to Hell? · 2023
Jones defends hell through self-chosen degeneration, corrective grace, open escape, and possible annihilation; O'Connor challenges agency, proportionality, misinformation, universalism, and atonement.
Michael Jones: 80 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Eric Hernandez vs Justin Schieber: Does God Exist? · 2023
Hernandez defended theistic grounds for morality, reason, and consciousness; Schieber pressed stronger naturalistic alternatives and evidential challenges from suffering, hostility, and hiddenness.
Eric Hernandez: 74 · Justin Schieber: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs Cameron Bertuzzi: Something From Nothing? · 2018
Bertuzzi defends an external necessary foundation, while O'Connor presses modal, compositional, symmetry, and underdetermination objections against identifying that foundation as God.
Cameron Bertuzzi: 81 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cameron Bertuzzi vs Justin Schieber: The Problem of Evil · 2019
Schieber's comparative suffering case prevailed overall, while Bertuzzi's likelihood objection and limited-information defense exposed a serious weakness in the final skeptical-theism reply.
Cameron Bertuzzi: 78 · Justin Schieber: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Trent Horn and Cameron Bertuzzi vs Alex O'Connor and Joe Schmid: Problem of Evil · 2022
Horn and Bertuzzi defend theodicy and Christian hope; O'Connor and Schmid press evidential evil, animal suffering, and the cost of skeptical replies.
Trent Horn and Cameron Bertuzzi: 78 · Alex O'Connor and Joe Schmid: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sharon Dirckx vs Philip Goff: Does Consciousness Point to God? · 2019
Dirckx argues consciousness fits a divine personal ground, while Goff presents panpsychism as a parsimonious alternative and challenges the specifically theistic inference.
Sharon Dirckx: 79 · Philip Goff: 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.
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.
Dave Farina vs James Tour: Are We Clueless About the Origin of Life? · 2023
Tour pressed unresolved selectivity, replication, information, and integration barriers; Farina answered with experimental component mechanisms while distinguishing incomplete reconstruction from scientific cluelessness.
James Tour: 80 · Dave Farina: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James Tour vs Sy Garte: Evolution, Agency, and Christian Faith · 2025
Tour demands mechanisms for major transitions, while Garte defends a bounded evolutionary framework compatible with Christian unity, agency research, and acknowledged uncertainty.
James Tour: 79 · Sy Garte: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Alex O'Connor: Theism or Naturalism? · 2022
McLatchie advances biological-design and resurrection arguments while answering hiddenness and suffering objections through adequate evidence, moral probation, epistemic limits, and lawful regularity.
Jonathan McLatchie: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Keith Ward vs Michael Ruse: Mind, Consciousness, and God · 2013
Ward presents a cumulative mind-first theism, while Ruse argues that shared mysteries and experiences remain naturally explicable and metaphysically underdetermined.
Keith Ward: 80 · Michael Ruse: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Michael Ruse: Science, Faith, and the Evidence for God · 2018
Lennox defended cumulative Christian evidence, while Ruse separated faith from inference and pressed a particularly effective challenge from innocent suffering.
John Lennox: 79 · Michael Ruse: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jordan Peterson vs Susan Blackmore: Do We Need God to Make Sense of Life? · 2018
Peterson grounds meaning in enacted religious inheritance, while Blackmore offers evolutionary, contemplative, and social counterexamples to claims of religious necessity.
Jordan Peterson: 74 · Susan Blackmore: 85. 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.
Alex O'Connor vs Max Baker-Hytch: The Argument for God From Reason · 2020
Baker-Hytch argues rationality and consciousness favor fundamental mentality, while O'Connor defends evolutionary, physical realization and challenges the proposed comparative advantage.
Max Baker-Hytch: 84 · Alex O'Connor: 82. 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.
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 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.
Michael Jones vs Matt Dillahunty: Reason to Believe in God? · 2020
Jones assembled a cumulative idealist explanation, while Dillahunty’s sharper probability, underdetermination, and burden challenges exposed substantial gaps between suggestive evidence and theism.
Michael Jones: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 91. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Tom Jump: Does God Exist? · 2019
Jones defended theistic idealism through consciousness and emergent spacetime; Jump pressed underdetermination, epistemic limits, natural alternatives, and the explanatory cost of divine attributes.
Michael Jones: 76 · Tom Jump: 80. 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.
Tom Holland vs A. C. Grayling: Did Christianity Give Us Our Human Values? · 2019
Holland traces Western dignity and reform through Christian transformation, while Grayling argues that classical, cross-cultural, Enlightenment, and secular traditions provide stronger plural genealogies.
Tom Holland: 78 · A. C. Grayling: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Aron Ra and TJump: Is Christianity True? · 2023
The Knechtles defend Jesus through Gospel reliability, resurrection, grace, love, and worldview fit; Aron Ra and TJump challenge miracle testimony, biblical contradictions, religious borrowing, and evidential standards.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle: 66 · Aron Ra and Tom Jump: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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.
Richard Swinburne vs Michael Huemer: Is Theism Coherent? · 2026
Swinburne defends coherent maximal attributes through logical possibility and doctrinal distinctions; Huemer presses quantitative infinity, residual knowledge, temporal conflict, and supertask objections.
Richard Swinburne: 75 · Michael Huemer: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Braxton Hunter vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Christian God Exist? · 2019
Hunter builds a cumulative Christian case from freedom, causation, and resurrection; Dillahunty presses underdetermination, evidential discrimination, hiddenness, and revelation inconsistency.
Braxton Hunter: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. 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.
Brian Cutter vs Graham Oppy: Does Mind-Brain Harmony Point to God? · 2025
Cutter argues psychophysical harmony favors divine goodness; Oppy counters that identity theory and unresolved probability measures undermine the proposed evidential comparison.
Brian Cutter: 85 · Graham Oppy: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jimmy Akin vs Bart Ehrman: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? · 2022
Akin defended cumulative Gospel reliability through ancient conventions and possible harmonizations; Ehrman pressed consequential narrative conflicts, compositional reshaping, and discontinuous self-presentation.
Jimmy Akin: 81 · Bart Ehrman: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Guillaume Bignon vs Graham Oppy: Religious Experience and the Case for God · 2022
Bignon presents experience, providential convergence, and historical considerations for Christian belief; Oppy counters with symmetry, cultural variation, naturalistic explanation, hiddenness, and evidential caution.
Guillaume Bignon: 82 · Graham Oppy: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Zac Sechler vs Matt Dillahunty: Did a Perfect Mind Create the Universe? · 2022
Sechler presents a cumulative perfect-mind inference; Dillahunty answers that unspecified hypotheses, missing likelihood baselines, hiddenness, and rival agent explanations limit its force.
Zac Sechler: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Than Christopoulos vs Matt Dillahunty: Is the Resurrection a Historical Event? · 2024
Christopoulos presented a cumulative probabilistic resurrection case, while Dillahunty’s source challenges and distinctions between sincerity, likelihood, and warranted belief preserved rational uncertainty.
Than Christopoulos: 79 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Egnor vs Matt Dillahunty: Does God Exist? · 2021
Egnor developed cumulative Thomistic, natural-order, and moral arguments, while Dillahunty more effectively defended evidential restraint and exposed unsupported transitions to God.
Michael Egnor: 71 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Peter Atkins vs Keith Fox: God vs Science Debate · 2024
Atkins defended scientific materialism and finite purpose; Fox more consistently distinguished mechanism from metaphysics while grounding morality, personhood, hope, and technological restraint.
Peter Atkins: 70 · Keith Fox: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Lawrence Krauss vs Stephen Meyer and Denis Lamoureux: God, Science, and the Universe · 2016
Krauss argues science needs no God; Meyer argues information and fine-tuning point to design; Lamoureux defends evolutionary creation while rejecting ID interventionism.
Lawrence Krauss: 86 · Stephen Meyer and Denis Lamoureux: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Andrew Loke vs Graham Oppy: Is the Kalam Sound? · 2020
Loke builds a first-cause route toward personal agency, while Oppy challenges its modal bridges and develops a comparatively economical necessary-natural-state alternative.
Andrew Loke: 74 · Graham Oppy: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Lance Bush vs Derek McAllister: Moral Anti-Realism vs Realism · 2025
Bush systematically challenges realist presumptions from common sense, history, and semantics, while McAllister offers competent but insufficiently documented convergence and perspectival-collapse arguments.
Lance Bush: 90 · Derek McAllister: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Josh Rasmussen vs Graham Oppy: Theism, Naturalism, and Ultimate Reality · 2020
Rasmussen develops unified theistic foundations from unlimitedness and consciousness; Oppy answers with naturalistic continuity, neural identity, and disciplined whole-worldview comparison.
Josh Rasmussen: 81 · Graham Oppy: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Josh Rasmussen vs Joe Schmid: The Argument from Limits · 2023
Rasmussen develops arbitrary limits into qualified perfection; Schmid’s holistic, axiological, symmetry, and necessity objections leave the God-like conclusion substantially underdetermined.
Josh Rasmussen: 84 · Joe Schmid: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Swinburne vs Graham Oppy: Is Theism Probable? · 2022
Swinburne advances a cumulative theistic explanation, while Oppy answers with economical naturalistic alternatives and sharper comparative, anthropocentric, consciousness, and modal challenges.
Richard Swinburne: 80 · Graham Oppy: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Albrecht vs Graham Oppy: Resurrection and Ancient Christianity · 2023
Albrecht builds cumulative resurrection and ecclesial-continuity arguments, while Oppy presses visionary alternatives, transmission uncertainty, selective preservation, and early Christian plurality.
William Albrecht: 76 · Graham Oppy: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ed Feser vs Graham Oppy: Are There Any Good Arguments for God? · 2020
Feser defends audience-sensitive argument, contemporaneous actualization, and a divine terminus; Oppy emphasizes global theory comparison, default persistence, and a physical explanatory bottom.
Ed Feser: 86 · Graham Oppy: 81. 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.
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.
Josh Rasmussen vs Alex Malpass: Suffering, Theism, and Causal Finitism · 2021
Rasmussen defends causal finitude and theistic expectations; Malpass challenges modal recombination and argues that suffering's severity and distribution favor indifference.
Josh Rasmussen: 82 · Alex Malpass: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Nathan Hawkins vs Joe Folley: Do We Really Have Free Will? · 2026
Hawkins defended alternative-capable self-formation through constrained indeterminacy; Folley more consistently grounded practical agency and responsibility in distinctions surviving determinism.
Nathan Hawkins: 83 · Joe Folley: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jay Dyer vs Alex Malpass: The TAG Argument · 2019
Malpass consistently exposed necessity, parity, and scope gaps, while Dyer offered substantive Orthodox grounding but left several decisive comparative bridges underdeveloped.
Jay Dyer: 74 · Alex Malpass: 91. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Harold Kushner and Peter Gomes: God, Religion, and Morality · 2009
Kushner and Gomes defend religion as moral aspiration, resilience, and community; Hitchens argues that secular ethics survives while religion adds dangerous authority claims.
Harold Kushner and Peter Gomes: 81 · Christopher Hitchens: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex Malpass vs James Anderson: Does Logic Prove God? · 2021
Anderson argues necessary propositions are best grounded in divine thoughts; Malpass defends nonmental propositions while challenging conceptualism's coherence and comparative advantage.
James Anderson: 86 · Alex Malpass: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Winger vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Belief in the Resurrection Unreasonable? · 2019
Winger builds a cumulative historical case for resurrection, while Dillahunty argues that transmitted reports and unresolved causal gaps justify withholding belief.
Mike Winger: 80 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Matt Dillahunty: Quantum Idealism and Demonstrability · 2026
Jones offered an informational idealist account of quantum observation, while Dillahunty pressed stronger public-demonstrability, causal-interaction, preconscious-development, and discriminating-testability objections.
Michael Jones: 69 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs James Fodor: The Digital Physics Argument for God · 2021
Jones links emergent spacetime and structural physics to theistic idealism; Fodor counters that the science permits nonmental foundations and better constrains explanation.
Michael Jones: 71 · James Fodor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Miles K. Donahue vs James Fodor: The Case Against Christianity · 2025
Donahue defended Christianity cumulatively, while Fodor pressed comparative objections from divine psychology, suffering, religious confusion, informed dissent, and observable moral outcomes.
Miles K. Donahue: 81 · James Fodor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Miles K. Donahue vs Alex Malpass: Does Fine-Tuning Point to God? · 2026
Donahue defended a theistic likelihood advantage from fine-tuning, while Malpass pressed naturalistic aggregation, uncertain divine psychology, prior ambiguity, and theory-relative alternatives.
Miles K. Donahue: 79 · Alex Malpass: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Gregory Pine vs Ben Watkins: Does God Exist? · 2020
Pine defends classical theism through Thomistic metaphysics, while Watkins presses identification gaps, divine-attribute tensions, evolutionary suffering, hiddenness, and religious disagreement.
Gregory Pine: 79 · Ben Watkins: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Kyle Butt vs Michael Shermer: Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2023
Shermer’s calibrated skepticism and natural alternatives consistently challenged Butt’s ambitious causal, design, moral, historical, and suffering-based case for the biblical God.
Kyle Butt: 71 · Michael Shermer: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan Pageau vs Joe Folley: Genesis, Jesus, Science, and Faith · 2026
Pageau connected purposive patterns, scripture, resurrection, and worship to Logos; Folley consistently separated their usefulness and structural reality from supernatural conclusions.
Jonathan Pageau: 76 · Joe Folley: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Glen Scrivener vs Alex O'Connor: Morality, Freedom, Slavery, and the Bible · 2026
Scrivener traces Western morality through Christian narratives and institutions, while O'Connor argues that mixed traditions, material struggle, and internal counterevidence better explain it.
Glen Scrivener: 81 · Alex O'Connor: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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.
Michel-Yves Bollore vs Phil Halper: Does Science Point to God? · 2026
Scientific skepticism prevailed by exposing cosmological underdetermination, alternative fine-tuning explanations, ancient biblical cosmology, and insufficient answers to extensive animal suffering.
Michel-Yves Bollore: 69 · Phil Halper: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Matt Slick: Is Secular Humanism Superior to Christianity? · 2016
Dillahunty’s revisable, welfare-centered humanism outperformed Slick’s foundational Christian critique, whose serious grounding objections remained insufficiently connected to comparative practical superiority.
Matt Dillahunty: 82 · Matt Slick: 74. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Glen Scrivener vs Matt Dillahunty: Can Atheism Deliver a Better World? · 2020
Scrivener grounds dignity and obligation in Christianity; Dillahunty distinguishes atheism from secular humanism and advances a corrigible, human-centered moral foundation.
Glen Scrivener: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Huemer vs Matt Lutz: Is Morality Real? · 2026
Huemer defends objective morality through evaluative judgment and defeasible appearances; Lutz counters with desire-based reasons, projectivism, and explanationist standards for knowledge.
Michael Huemer: 88 · Matt Lutz: 81. 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.
Michael Jones vs Stephen Law: Christianity vs Humanism · 2025
Law’s comparative, neutrality, and evidential challenges outweighed Jones’s stronger pluralism case and qualified historical, social, scientific, and theological defenses.
Michael Jones: 72 · Stephen Law: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is the Bible True? · 2024
O'Connor pressed concrete historical and moral counterexamples, while D'Souza defended genre-sensitive revelation, cumulative testimony, moral development, and Christianity's beneficial interpretive traditions.
Dinesh D'Souza: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 91. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Trent Horn vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Belief in the Resurrection Reasonable? · 2021
Horn defended resurrection belief through testimony and comparative explanation; Dillahunty narrowly prevailed by separating sincerity from accuracy and emphasizing ordinary error.
Trent Horn: 82 · Matt Dillahunty: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Peter Atkins: Duelling Professors on Science and God · 2012
Lennox pressed cumulative explanatory gaps and Christian evidence, while Atkins defended methodological economy, emergent natural processes, evolved morality, and evidential restraint.
John Lennox: 79 · Peter Atkins: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Knechtle offered cumulative historical, moral, and relational warrant for Christianity; Dillahunty consistently pressed whether those methods distinguish supernatural truth from preservation, fiction, and alternatives.
Cliffe Knechtle: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jay Dyer vs Matt Dillahunty: Transcendental Argument for Theism · 2019
Dyer argues Orthodox theism uniquely grounds transcendental categories; Dillahunty counters that fallible reliability permits rational inquiry without an unproved divine guarantor.
Jay Dyer: 76 · Matt Dillahunty: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Glen Scrivener vs Joe Folley: Morality, Evil, Consciousness, and Christian Narrative · 2025
Folley pressed cumulative evidential and methodological objections, while Scrivener offered an integrated Christian narrative whose strongest replies remained partly underdeveloped.
Glen Scrivener: 74 · Joe Folley: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Lawrence Krauss: Christianity or Secular Ethics - What's Best for Society? · 2025
Christianity's institutional and moral arguments narrowly outperformed secular ethics, while secular challenges concerning heterogeneity, fallibilism, causation, and equal standing remained substantial.
Michael Jones: 79 · Lawrence Krauss: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ben Shapiro vs Alex O'Connor: The Atheist Delusion, Free Will, and Society · 2023
Shapiro defends religious foundations for agency, morality, science, and cohesion; O'Connor counters with determinism, revisability, historical resistance, scriptural counterexamples, and epistemic honesty.
Ben Shapiro: 71 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Peter Singer, Jessica Frazier, Richard Swinburne, and Alex O'Connor: The Mystery of Morality · 2025
Singer, Frazier, and Swinburne offer divergent realist accounts of morality; O'Connor defends ethical emotivism and treats moral language as expressive rather than truth-apt.
Peter Singer, Jessica Frazier, Richard Swinburne: 82 · Alex O'Connor: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs Craig Biddle: Free Will - Do You Have It? · 2025
Biddle locates freedom in regulating rational attention; O'Connor argues that introspection, desire, and agent causation never escape determination or randomness.
Craig Biddle: 77 · Alex O'Connor: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stephen Meyer vs Phil Halper: The Big Bang and Fine-Tuning · 2026
Meyer defended cosmic beginnings and fine-tuning as design evidence; Halper more successfully emphasized theorem limits, unknown probabilities, testability, and underdetermined divine intentions.
Stephen Meyer: 79 · Phil Halper: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Joe Schmid vs Chris Tomaszewski: Is Divine Simplicity True? · 2020
Schmid presses simplicity through composition, Trinitarian asymmetry, and contingent knowledge; Tomaszewski answers through aseity, analogical predication, subsistent relations, and extrinsic differentiation.
Chris Tomaszewski: 86 · Joe Schmid: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Huemer vs Lance Bush: Do Objective Moral Facts Exist? · 2024
Huemer defended attitude-independent morality through semantic tests and intellectual appearances; Bush countered with contextual quietism, folk indeterminacy, and challenges to intuition’s public authority.
Michael Huemer: 85 · Lance Bush: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Enoch vs Lance Bush: Are There Objective Moral Truths? · 2026
Enoch defends mind-independent normativity through justified appearances and comparative explanation; Bush contests realist priority through neutral language, causal genealogy, pragmatism, and parsimony.
David Enoch: 85 · Lance Bush: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Derek Lambert vs Michael Jones: Atheist and Christian Discussion · 2021
Jones defended Christianity through cumulative evidence and qualified theology; Lambert pressed disclosure, comparative testimony, scriptural development, sincere nonbelief, and historical insufficiency.
Michael Jones: 79 · Derek Lambert: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sean McDowell vs Bart Ehrman: The Moral Argument, Guilt, and the Teachings of Jesus · 2026
McDowell presses objective obligation and progress; Ehrman explains universal charity historically while separating human moral experience from mind-independent grounding.
Sean McDowell: 86 · Bart Ehrman: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Bart Ehrman vs Justin Bass: Did Jesus of Nazareth Rise From the Dead? · 2023
Bass builds a cumulative resurrection case from appearances, unexpected belief, expansion, and visions; Ehrman answers through source criticism, ordinary alternatives, and comparative evidence.
Justin Bass: 78 · Bart Ehrman: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sean Carroll vs Hans Halvorson: Metaphysics · 2016
Carroll defends revisable naturalism across science and value, while Halvorson argues scientific completeness underdetermines theism and offers qualified moral and existential alternatives.
Sean Carroll: 84 · Hans Halvorson: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer vs Ian Hutchinson and Dinesh D'Souza: Has Science Refuted Religion? · 2012
Carroll and Shermer argue that naturalism and scientific explanations have displaced religious claims; Hutchinson and D'Souza argue that science has not refuted religion because it cannot settle every religious, historical, moral, or existential claim.
Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer: 81 · Ian Hutchinson and Dinesh D'Souza: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Philip Goff vs Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Fundamental? · 2023
Goff defended consciousness-first metaphysics from private experience and explanatory gaps; Carroll answered through multilevel emergence, empirical constraints, and comparative challenges.
Philip Goff: 84 · Sean Carroll: 84. 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.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Alex O'Connor and Phil Halper: Does the Biblical God Exist? · 2024
The Knechtles argue that morality, creation, Jesus, resurrection, and lived experience point to the biblical God; O'Connor and Halper argue that animal suffering, biblical errors, divine violence, and hiddenness count strongly against that God.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle: 76 · Alex O'Connor and Phil Halper: 86. 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.
Jeffery Jay Lowder vs Frank Turek: Naturalism or Theism? · 2016
Lowder's calibrated comparative case consistently outperformed Turek's cumulative theistic inferences, especially concerning embodied minds, suffering, hiddenness, and naturalistic cognitive reliability.
Jeffery Jay Lowder: 85 · Frank Turek: 70. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs David Silverman: Which Better Explains Reality? · 2013
Turek advances cumulative theistic explanations, while Silverman emphasizes natural processes, evidential restraint, human responsibility, and tensions between divine attributes and suffering.
Frank Turek: 77 · David Silverman: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Michael Shermer: What Best Explains Reality? · 2018
Turek advances a cumulative theistic explanation, while Shermer's calibrated skepticism, natural mechanisms, and evidential challenges more completely answer the debate's central burdens.
Frank Turek: 72 · Michael Shermer: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs Frank Turek: The Moral Argument Debate · 2017
Turek grounds objective obligation in God; O'Connor distinguishes compelling moral experience from objectivity and offers evolutionary, psychological, and conditional explanations.
Frank Turek: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Christopher Hitchens: What Best Explains Reality? · 2011
Turek advances a cumulative theistic explanation, while Hitchens more consistently supplies calibrated naturalistic alternatives and challenges the inferential bridges to design and revelation.
Frank Turek: 74 · Christopher Hitchens: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Tariq Ramadan: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? · 2010
Hitchens foregrounds coercive institutions and secular equality; Ramadan answers through interpretive plurality, peace-oriented ethics, political causation, internal reform, and constitutional citizenship.
Christopher Hitchens: 80 · Tariq Ramadan: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Marvin Olasky: Religion, Grace, and Secular Morality · 2007
Hitchens attacks supernatural authority and religious morality; Olasky counters through Christianity's grace, charitable fruits, historical credibility, and challenges to universal condemnation.
Christopher Hitchens: 80 · Marvin Olasky: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Alex O'Connor vs Craig Biddle: Is Morality Objective? · 2024
Biddle grounds objective morality in life and flourishing; O'Connor argues that conditional valuation cannot establish objective duties, especially toward other people and animals.
Craig Biddle: 82 · Alex O'Connor: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Frank Turek vs Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? · 2008
Turek advances cumulative theistic explanations, while Hitchens more consistently enforces evidential burdens, challenges Christian specificity, and defends secular moral autonomy.
Frank Turek: 74 · Christopher Hitchens: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate · 2010
Hitchens challenges faith through natural explanation, secular morality, scriptural harm, and natural transcendence, while granting uncertainty where atheism cannot conclusively disprove theological possibilities.
Christopher Hitchens: 85 · Rabbi David Wolpe: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Peter Hitchens: Iraq, God, and Moral Authority · 2008
Christopher Hitchens defends intervention and secular morality; Peter Hitchens challenges Iraq's consequences and argues that binding moral authority requires transcendence.
Christopher Hitchens: 79 · Peter Hitchens: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sam Harris vs Alex O'Connor: Objective Morality and Emotivism · 2024
Harris grounds evaluative direction in conscious experience, while O'Connor distinguishes subjective destinations from objective means and denies that flourishing requires moral truth.
Sam Harris: 77 · Alex O'Connor: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
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.
Francis Collins vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Exist? · 2024
Collins builds a cumulative Christian case from fine-tuning, morality, resurrection, revelation, and beauty, while answering suffering through orderly creation and noncoercive evidence.
Francis Collins: 79 · Alex O'Connor: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs Richard Dawkins: The God Debate · 2024
Hirsi Ali defended Christian renewal through personal transformation and civilizational need; Dawkins separated those benefits from supernatural truth and challenged religious moral authority.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 74 · Richard Dawkins: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox: Is God Great? · 2017
Lennox defended Christian explanatory foundations and redemptive hope; Hitchens pressed stronger challenges concerning revelation, secular value, suffering, authority, and historical complicity.
John Lennox: 77 · Christopher Hitchens: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Richard Carrier: Does God Exist? · 2025
Jones and Carrier closely contest whether consciousness, cosmic structure, morality, and origins comparatively favor theistic idealism or secular naturalism.
Michael Jones: 74 · Richard Carrier: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe Knechtle vs Alex O'Connor: Christianity, Scripture, and Morality · 2025
Knechtle presents Christianity as redemptive and context-sensitive, while O'Connor presses evidential, moral, slavery, and gender objections through specific scriptural counterexamples.
Cliffe Knechtle: 76 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Joel Settecase vs Tom Jump: Is There Evidence for God? · 2025
Settecase exposed gaps between self-certainty and universal necessity, while Jump effectively separated objective relations from descriptions and challenged divine sustenance.
Joel Settecase: 84 · Tom Jump: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Dinesh D'Souza vs Bart Ehrman: God, Suffering, and Evil · 2025
D'Souza defended theistic compatibility through epistemic limits, freedom, and natural order; Ehrman pressed suffering's scale, preventability, and unexplained intervention gap.
Dinesh D'Souza: 79 · Bart Ehrman: 87. 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.
Jordan Peterson vs Matt Dillahunty: The Greatest God Debate In History · 2023
Peterson defended religious experience, narrative, and ultimate value as meaning-bearing realities; Dillahunty separated those functions from warranted belief in supernatural agency.
Jordan Peterson: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Michael Shermer: Does God Exist? · 2022
Wood defended theism through intelligibility, moral grounding, and wider eschatological context; Shermer prevailed through empirical discrimination, natural mechanisms, secular morality, and suffering.
David Wood: 73 · Michael Shermer: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
David Wood vs Alex O'Connor: Did Jesus Claim to Be God? · 2025
Wood built a cumulative divine-identity case, while O'Connor more consistently showed that agency, delegation, and later devotion underdetermine Jesus's personal self-claim.
David Wood: 83 · Alex O'Connor: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Dinesh D'Souza vs Matt Dillahunty: Does God Exist? What Is a Woman? · 2023
D'Souza defended faith-informed inference, biological institutions, and market incentives; Dillahunty answered with evidential burdens, institutional neutrality, and consequence-focused social welfare.
Dinesh D'Souza: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Sye Ten Bruggencate: Is It Reasonable to Believe God Exists? · 2014
Dillahunty’s fallibilist evidential method consistently outperformed Ten Bruggencate’s presuppositional case, whose challenges identified foundational problems but rarely demonstrated Christianity’s exclusive necessity.
Sye Ten Bruggencate: 64 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Peter Atkins: Can Science Explain Everything? · 2019
Lennox defended explanatory pluralism across purpose, rationality, miracles, origins, and ethics, while Atkins pressed public evidence, natural sufficiency, and scientific progress.
John Lennox: 84 · Peter Atkins: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Christopher Hitchens vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is Religion the Problem? · 2010
Hitchens challenged revelation, supernatural explanation, and religious authority; D'Souza defended theism through comparative explanation, design, morality, purpose, and human agency.
Christopher Hitchens: 83 · Dinesh D'Souza: 75. 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.
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.