A creator is not yet the God of theism. Creator-only (deistic) arguments do not by themselves establish revelation, intervention, or a God who answers prayer. Categories describe the main question of each debate, not the religious identity of its speakers.
Cosmological & Contingency Arguments
Kalam, contingency, beginnings, finitude, fine-tuning, and arguments from the universe to a creator or necessary reality. A creator-only conclusion does not by itself establish the stronger claims of theism.
Andrew Loke vs Dan Linford — Physical Reality, Causation, and Beginnings · 2023
In light of contemporary physics, should we accept that physical reality had a cause or beginning?
Speakers: Andrew Loke · Dan Linford
Miles K. Donahue vs Dan Linford — Fine-Tuning and Theism · 2026
Does cosmic fine-tuning provide strong evidence for theism over naturalism? Themes include: Fine-tuning, data, and the core likelihood comparison; Theory replacement and deeper physics; Entropy and comparative disconfirmation.
Speakers: Miles K. Donahue · Dan Linford
Michael Jones vs Joseph Schmid: Does the Contingency Argument Support God? · 2022
Does the contingency argument provide good reason to believe that the necessary foundation of reality is God?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Joseph Schmid
John Lennox vs Lawrence Krauss: Science, the Universe, and the God Question · 2013
Do modern cosmology, fine-tuning, and the universe's existence support a divine mind or a self-contained natural account?
Speakers: John Lennox · Lawrence Krauss
William Lane Craig vs Lawrence Krauss: Is There Evidence for God? · 2012
Does the greater weight of philosophical, scientific, moral, and historical evidence support God's existence?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Lawrence Krauss
Ben Fischer vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Good Evidence for God? · 2020
Is there good evidence for God, rather than merely an asserted epistemic starting point? Themes include: Epistemic burden and the standard for good evidence; First cause, temporal regress, and conscious will; Axiomatic necessity or unsupported assumption.
Speakers: Ben Fischer · Matt Dillahunty
Kenny Rhodes vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Evidence for God? · 2021
Is there good evidence for the existence of the God of classical theism? Themes include: Metaphysical Method and Evidential Standards; Essence, Form, Identity, and Abstraction; Essence-Existence Composition and the Necessary Ground.
Speakers: Kenny Rhodes · Matt Dillahunty
Matthew Adelstein vs Matt Dillahunty: Should We Believe in God? · 2025
Should we believe in an all-knowing, all-powerful, morally perfect being? Themes include: Evidential Standards and Bayesian Support; Theistic Prior and the Omnimax Attribute Bridge; Fine-Tuning, Design, and Observer Selection.
Speakers: Matthew Adelstein · Matt Dillahunty
William Lane Craig vs Scott Clifton: The Kalam Cosmological Argument · 2021
Does the Kalam causal premise justify a transcendent cause of the universe, or is ordinary causation too bound to space, time, and material conditions to support that inference?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Scott Clifton
Trent Horn vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Exist? · 2020
Does God exist, and do contingency, sufficient reason, moral realism, evil, animal suffering, and quantum randomness support or undermine theism?
Speakers: Trent Horn · Alex O'Connor
Alex O'Connor vs Cameron Bertuzzi: Something From Nothing? · 2018
Does the contingency argument show that contingent reality requires a necessary foundation identifiable as God, or can determinism, composition worries, and a necessary-universe option block the inference?
Speakers: Cameron Bertuzzi · Alex O'Connor
William Lane Craig vs Alex Malpass: Did the Universe Begin to Exist? · 2020
Do actual-infinity and successive-addition arguments give adequate philosophical support for the Kalam claim that the universe began to exist?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Alex Malpass
Lawrence Krauss vs Stephen Meyer and Denis Lamoureux: God, Science, and the Universe · 2016
Do cosmology, evolution, and biological information point beyond scientific naturalism to God, design, or a theistic interpretation of nature?
Speakers: Lawrence Krauss · Stephen Meyer and Denis Lamoureux
Andrew Loke vs Graham Oppy: Is the Kalam Sound? · 2020
Does Loke's reformulated Kalam cosmological argument successfully establish a beginningless personal creator of the universe?
Speakers: Andrew Loke · Graham Oppy
Josh Rasmussen vs Joe Schmid: The Argument from Limits · 2023
Does the argument from arbitrary limits successfully move from a fundamental reality or necessary foundation toward God-like perfection?
Speakers: Josh Rasmussen · Joe Schmid
Josh Rasmussen vs Scott Clifton: Is the Contingency Argument Persuasive? · 2019
Is the argument from contingency persuasive in moving from contingent reality to a necessary or automatically actual foundation?
Speakers: Josh Rasmussen · Scott Clifton
Miles K. Donahue vs Alex Malpass: Does Fine-Tuning Point to God? · 2026
Does cosmic fine-tuning provide strong evidence for God, or can naturalistic alternatives, hypothesis-space ambiguity, and doubts about divine psychology undercut that inference?
Speakers: Miles K. Donahue · Alex Malpass
Michel-Yves Bollore vs Phil Halper: Does Science Point to God? · 2026
Do cosmology, fine-tuning, origin-of-life research, biblical claims, and suffering make the Christian God more or less plausible?
Speakers: Michel-Yves Bollore · Phil Halper
William Lane Craig vs Alex Malpass: Can Something Come From Nothing? · 2026
Does the Kalam cosmological argument show that the universe began to exist, has a cause, and points to a personal creator?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Alex Malpass
Stephen Meyer vs Phil Halper: The Big Bang and Fine-Tuning · 2026
Does modern cosmology, especially Big Bang evidence and cosmic fine-tuning, make theism or intelligent design a better explanation than naturalistic early-universe models?
Speakers: Stephen Meyer · Phil Halper
William Lane Craig vs Sean Carroll: God and Cosmology · 2014
Does contemporary cosmology make God's existence more probable, or do naturalistic cosmological models better explain the universe without theism?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Sean Carroll
Science and design
Scientific explanation, naturalism, physics, cosmic or mathematical design, and the scope and limits of empirical methods. Arguments for a designer are distinguished from further claims about that designer's identity or involvement.
Jonathan Sacks vs Richard Dawkins — Science and Religion · 2012
Can religion and science form a coherent partnership? Themes include: Science and the partnership claim; Cosmic purpose and explanatory warrant; Literal, symbolic, and scientific interpretation.
Speakers: Jonathan Sacks · Richard Dawkins
Peter Atkins vs Stephen Law — Science or philosophy? · 2014
Is science a better model for free inquiry than philosophy? Themes include: Evidence and the discipline of inquiry; Scientific integration and philosophical specialization; The reach of scientific explanation.
Speakers: Peter Atkins · Stephen Law
Is Superdeterminism Scientifically Justified? Sabine Hossenfelder vs. Bernardo Kastrup · 2022
Does superdeterminism provide a scientifically justified route to resolving quantum mechanics’ measurement problem?
Speakers: Sabine Hossenfelder · Bernardo Kastrup
Science and Belief in God: Francis Collins vs. Richard Dawkins · 2022
Does scientific understanding leave rational grounds for belief in God? Themes include: personal routes and epistemic scope; evolution and biological design; bottom-up simplicity and divine complexity.
Speakers: Francis Collins · Richard Dawkins
God, Science and the Poetry of Reality: Rowan Williams vs. Richard Dawkins · 2026
What best explains the poetry of reality: God or science? Themes include: Genesis, Evolution, and Human Fallibility; Scientific Explanation and Divine Creativity; Consciousness, Soul, and Survival After Death.
Speakers: Rowan Williams · Richard Dawkins
William Lane Craig vs John Shook: The Existence of God · 2008
Does the available philosophical, scientific, moral, historical, and experiential evidence support God's existence?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · John Shook
William Lane Craig vs Peter Atkins: Does God Exist? · 2011
Does God exist as the transcendent personal cause and moral foundation of reality? Themes include: Cosmic Origin, Causality, and a Personal First Cause; Objective Morality and Its Foundation; Resurrection Evidence and Miracle Inference.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Peter Atkins
William Lane Craig vs Alex Rosenberg: Is Faith in God Reasonable? · 2013
Is belief in the personal God of classical theism intellectually reasonable? Themes include: Cosmic Origin and Causal Explanation; Fine-Tuning and Explanatory Standards; Intentionality and Scientific Naturalism.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Alex Rosenberg
David Wood vs Aron Ra: Is Naturalism True? · 2023
Is naturalism true, or does an evolutionary naturalist account of human cognition undermine the rational confidence required to affirm naturalism?
Speakers: David Wood · Aron Ra
Daniel Dennett vs Philip Clayton: Naturalism and Ultimate Reality · 2012
Does naturalism fully explain mind, intentionality, morality, and reality, or does a religious account of ultimate reality offer an additional explanatory framework?
Speakers: Daniel Dennett · Philip Clayton
Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox: Has Science Buried God? · 2017
Has science buried God, or can Christian theism still explain rationality, design, miracles, morality, and fine-tuning?
Speakers: John Lennox · Richard Dawkins
John Lennox vs Michael Ruse: Science, Faith, and the Evidence for God · 2018
Do science, mathematics, miracle claims, moral experience, and the problem of evil support an evidence-based Christian faith or a more cautious agnostic naturalism?
Speakers: John Lennox · Michael Ruse
Michael Jones vs Tom Jump: Does God Exist? · 2019
Does God exist, and do emergent spacetime, quantum consciousness, idealism, and the limits of metaphysical knowledge make theism more reasonable than naturalistic alternatives?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Tom Jump
Peter Atkins vs Keith Fox: God vs Science Debate · 2024
Do science, evolution, and future technology make God unnecessary, or do value, personhood, origins, and hope point beyond scientific materialism?
Speakers: Peter Atkins · Keith Fox
William Lane Craig vs Graham Oppy: Does Math Point to God? · 2020
Does the surprising applicability of mathematics to the physical world support theism better than naturalism?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Graham Oppy
Michael Jones vs James Fodor: The Digital Physics Argument for God · 2021
Does digital physics, emergent spacetime, quantum information, and idealist metaphysics make God the best explanation of reality, or is a materialist ontology simpler and better disciplined?
Speakers: Michael Jones · James Fodor
John Lennox vs Peter Atkins: Duelling Professors on Science and God · 2012
Do science, design, DNA, natural law, morality, and human experience point toward Christian theism or toward an atheistic naturalist account?
Speakers: John Lennox · Peter Atkins
Sean Carroll vs Hans Halvorson: Metaphysics · 2016
How should scientific knowledge be integrated into naturalist and theistic worldviews, and do cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics, consciousness, morality, and meaning favor either metaphysical picture?
Speakers: Sean Carroll · Hans Halvorson
Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer vs Ian Hutchinson and Dinesh D'Souza: Has Science Refuted Religion? · 2012
Has science refuted religion, or does that claim overreach by confusing scientific method with scientism and by ignoring non-scientific forms of evidence?
Speakers: Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer · Ian Hutchinson and Dinesh D'Souza
Jeffery Jay Lowder vs Frank Turek: Naturalism or Theism? · 2016
What better explains reality: naturalism, where the physical explains the mental, or theism, where God grounds creation, reason, information, morality, evil, and science?
Speakers: Jeffery Jay Lowder · Frank Turek
Francis Collins vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Exist? · 2024
Do fine-tuning, morality, resurrection, revelation, and beauty make Christian theism more plausible than O'Connor's skeptical agnosticism?
Speakers: Francis Collins · Alex O'Connor
David Wood vs Michael Shermer: Does God Exist? · 2022
Does science, morality, evil, and explanatory method support theism more strongly than skeptical naturalism?
Speakers: David Wood · Michael Shermer
John Lennox vs Peter Atkins: Can Science Explain Everything? · 2019
Can science explain everything worth explaining, or do rationality, miracles, purpose, origins, morality, and meaning require a different kind of explanation?
Speakers: John Lennox · Peter Atkins
Evolution and origins of life
Biological evolution, prebiotic chemistry, the origin of life, cellular complexity, and biological design.
Stephen Meyer vs Peter Atkins — Intelligent Design and Science · 2010
Is intelligent design a legitimate scientific explanation for biological origins? Themes include: Information and origins; Scientific method; Evolutionary scope.
Speakers: Stephen Meyer · Peter Atkins
James Tour vs S. Joshua Swamidass: How Close Is Origin-of-Life Science? · 2020
Has science come meaningfully close to explaining how life first arose from nonliving chemistry?
Speakers: James Tour · S. Joshua Swamidass
Michael Ruse vs Fuz Rana: Evolution or Design at Life's Origin? · 2013
Are natural processes sufficient to explain the origin of life and the complexity of the cell?
Speakers: Michael Ruse · Fuz Rana
James Tour vs Lee Cronin: Are We Close to Discovering the Origin of Life? · 2020
Does current origin-of-life research substantially overstate how close it is to explaining the emergence of life?
Speakers: James Tour · Lee Cronin
Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams & Anthony Kenny: Humanity's Ultimate Origins · 2012
Can the nature and ultimate origins of human beings be explained by evolutionary naturalism, or does a theistic account add indispensable explanation?
Speakers: Rowan Williams · Richard Dawkins and Anthony Kenny
Alvin Plantinga vs Daniel Dennett: Science, Religion, and Evolution · 2018
Are evolutionary science and theistic religion compatible, and does naturalism plus evolution undercut trust in human cognition?
Speakers: Alvin Plantinga · Daniel Dennett
Dave Farina vs James Tour: Are We Clueless About the Origin of Life? · 2023
Are scientists currently clueless about the origin of life, or do prebiotic chemistry, ribozyme research, and systems chemistry already provide viable pathways toward abiogenesis?
Speakers: James Tour · Dave Farina
James Tour vs Sy Garte: Evolution, Agency, and Christian Faith · 2025
Can Christian faith be reconciled with evolutionary theory by emphasizing agency, cognition, and natural genetic engineering, or do unresolved mechanisms in origins, body plans, fossils, and human uniqueness make evolutionary confidence overreach?
Speakers: James Tour · Sy Garte
Bible and historical Jesus
Biblical texts, Gospel reliability, authorship, historical Jesus, mythicism, interpretation, and scriptural ethics.
Bart Ehrman vs James White — Does the Bible Misquote Jesus? · 2009
Does the Bible misquote Jesus? Themes include: Copying history and variant scale; Additions, sayings, and message continuity; Preservation, tenacity, and genealogy.
Speakers: Bart Ehrman · James White
Mike Winger vs Paulogia — Evidence for the Resurrection · 2018
Is there sufficient evidence to believe in the resurrection of Jesus? Themes include: Historical method and source standards; Minimal facts and limited grants; Appearance reports and the early creed.
Speakers: Mike Winger · Paulogia
Trent Horn vs Paulogia — Did the Apostles Die for a Lie? · 2023
Does the historical evidence of suffering justify confidence in the sincerity of all the original resurrection witnesses?
Speakers: Trent Horn · Paulogia
Paul Copan vs Randal Rauser — The Canaanite Conquest and a God of Love · 2022
Is the Canaanite conquest morally defensible as an act commanded by a loving God? Themes include: Scripture and interpretive method; Historicity and war rhetoric; Civilian harm and moral responsibility.
Speakers: Paul Copan · Randal Rauser
Samuel Nesan vs Matt Dillahunty — Did Jesus Fulfill Prophecy? · 2021
Did Jesus fulfill prophecy? Themes include: Covenant narrative and messianic identity; Specificity, interpretation, and prospective prediction; Historical evidence and verification.
Speakers: Samuel Nesan · Matt Dillahunty
Blake Giunta vs Matt Dillahunty — Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2016
Did Jesus rise from the dead? Themes include: Early testimony and historical access; Sincerity, legend, and alternative explanations; Probability, method, and supernatural inference.
Speakers: Blake Giunta · Matt Dillahunty
Randal Rauser vs Aron Ra — Biblical Violence and Divine Revelation · 2022
Can one reasonably believe the Bible is revealed by God despite its violent passages? Themes include: Moral standards and biblical violence; Scripture, genre, and revelatory reading; Jesus's authority and historical reading.
Speakers: Randal Rauser · Aron Ra
James White vs Robert Price — Is the Bible true? · 2010
Is the Bible true? Themes include: Historical method and supernatural claims; Eyewitnesses, oral tradition, and distortion; Authorship, sources, and literary composition.
Speakers: James White · Robert Price
Cliffe Knechtle & Stuart Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty & Joshua Bowen: Is the Bible's treatment of slavery morally defensible? · 2021
Is the Bible's treatment of slavery morally defensible? Themes include: Interpretation and canonical trajectory; Legal status, ownership, and lexical context; Moral foundation and autonomy.
Speakers: Cliffe Knechtle & Stuart Knechtle · Matt Dillahunty & Joshua Bowen
James White vs John Dominic Crossan: Is the Bible True? · 2005
Is the orthodox biblical account of Jesus of Nazareth authentic and historically accurate?
Speakers: James White · John Dominic Crossan
Did Jesus Exist? Craig Evans vs. Richard Carrier · 2016
Did Jesus exist? Themes include: Historical method and prior plausibility; Pauline evidence and earthly reference; Gospel sources and historical corroboration.
Speakers: Craig Evans · Richard Carrier
Does the New Testament Misquote Jesus? Bart Ehrman vs. Craig Evans · 2010
Does the New Testament misquote Jesus? Themes include: Contradictions and the Standard of Gospel Reliability; Preservation of Jesus's Sayings and Deeds; Authorship, Eyewitnesses, and Oral Transmission.
Speakers: Bart Ehrman · Craig Evans
John Dominic Crossan vs Michael Licona: Who Was the Historical Jesus? · 2018
What can historians verify about Jesus, and do the sources support his divine identity and bodily resurrection?
Speakers: John Dominic Crossan · Michael Licona
Bart Ehrman vs Michael Licona: Who Wrote the Gospels? · 2025
Were the canonical Gospels written by, or under the authority of, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
Speakers: Michael Licona · Bart Ehrman
Bart Ehrman vs Daniel B. Wallace: Can We Trust the Text of the New Testament? · 2011
Can textual criticism recover the wording of the original New Testament with enough confidence for the text to be trusted?
Speakers: Daniel B. Wallace · Bart Ehrman
Bart Ehrman vs Peter J. Williams: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? · 2018
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable accounts of Jesus' life, teaching, death, and resurrection?
Speakers: Peter J. Williams · Bart Ehrman
Bart Ehrman vs Robert Price: Did Jesus Exist? · 2016
Did a first-century Jewish preacher named Jesus exist behind the Christian traditions, or did Christianity develop from mythic and scriptural materials without such a person?
Speakers: Bart Ehrman · Robert Price
Dennis R. MacDonald vs Richard Carrier: Did Jesus Exist? · 2025
Did Jesus exist as a historical Jewish teacher later mythologized, or did early Christianity begin with a revelatory Christ only later placed in history?
Speakers: Dennis R. MacDonald · Richard Carrier
Jonathan McLatchie vs Richard Carrier: Did Paul Believe in a Celestial Jesus? · 2018
Did Paul understand Jesus as an earthly historical person, or as a celestial figure whose death and resurrection occurred in a mythic heavenly realm?
Speakers: Jonathan McLatchie · Richard Carrier
Stephen Boyce vs Richard Carrier: Did Jesus Exist? · 2022
Did Jesus exist as a historical person, or did early Christian belief begin with a celestial or mythic Christ later placed in history?
Speakers: Stephen Boyce · Richard Carrier
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Alex O'Connor: Bible Slavery, Women, and Forgiveness · 2024
Can Christian scripture and the gospel of grace give a coherent account of suffering, gender, slavery, violence, forgiveness, and salvation, or do those texts and doctrines create unresolved moral problems?
Speakers: Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle · Alex O'Connor
Jimmy Akin vs Bart Ehrman: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? · 2022
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable despite alleged contradictions in the birth narratives, resurrection accounts, and Jesus' self-presentation?
Speakers: Jimmy Akin · Bart Ehrman
Alex O'Connor vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is the Bible True? · 2024
Is the Bible true in historical, moral, allegorical, theological, and revelatory senses, or do contradictions and morally troubling texts undermine its truth claims?
Speakers: Dinesh D'Souza · Alex O'Connor
David Wood vs Alex O'Connor: Did Jesus Claim to Be God? · 2025
Did Jesus personally claim divine identity, or do the relevant texts better show delegated authority, divine name-bearing, and later high christology?
Speakers: David Wood · Alex O'Connor
Resurrection and miracles
Resurrection evidence, miracle testimony, naturalistic alternatives, and the limits of historical proof of supernatural events.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Paulogia — Christianity’s Origins and the Resurrection · 2023
Is the physical resurrection of Jesus the best explanation for Christianity's origins? Themes include: Burdens and competing explanations; Sources and eyewitness proximity; Encounter detail and honest mistake.
Speakers: Jonathan McLatchie · Paulogia
David Wood vs Shabir Ally — Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2018
Did Jesus rise from the dead? Themes include: Death by crucifixion; Early appearances and sincere belief; Reporting and authorship development.
Speakers: David Wood · Shabir Ally
Sean McDowell vs Paulogia — Apostolic Martyrdom and the Resurrection · 2020
Are apostolic martyrdom and suffering good evidence for the resurrection? Themes include: Definition and evidential role; Eyewitness scope and source reliability; Death evidence and individual cases.
Speakers: Sean McDowell · Paulogia
Michael Shermer vs Luuk Vandeweghe — Are the Miracles of Jesus Unbelievable? · 2019
Are the miracles of Jesus unbelievable? Themes include: Probability, testimony, and the threshold for miracles; Historical sources, authorship, and memory; Witness sincerity, access, and martyrdom.
Speakers: Michael Shermer · Luuk Vandeweghe
Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier — Did Jesus rise from the dead? · 2004
Did Jesus rise from the dead? Themes include: Historical explananda and resurrection inference; Paul and the nature of the resurrection body; Empty tomb, sources, and literary development.
Speakers: Mike Licona · Richard Carrier
Michael Licona vs Bart Ehrman: Can Historians Prove the Resurrection? · 2008
Can historians prove that Jesus rose from the dead? Themes include: Historical Method and Public Standards; Source Quality and Reliability; Historical Bedrock and Evidential Relevance.
Speakers: Michael Licona · Bart Ehrman
Resurrection Evidence and Naturalistic Alternatives: William Lane Craig vs. Richard Carrier · 2009
Did Jesus rise from the dead? Themes include: Historical Framework and Comparative Explanation; Burial and the Empty Tomb; Gospel Sources and Literary Construction.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Richard Carrier
Gary Habermas vs Antony Flew: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2000
Does the historical evidence make Jesus' bodily resurrection a rational conclusion? Themes include: Historical Sources and Early Tradition; Death, Burial, and the Empty Tomb; Appearances and Psychological Alternatives.
Speakers: Gary Habermas · Antony Flew
Shabir Ally vs Michael Licona: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? · 2004
Does the historical evidence establish that Jesus physically rose from the dead? Themes include: Historical Burden and Best-Explanation Method; Death by Crucifixion; Burial and the Empty Tomb.
Speakers: Michael Licona · Shabir Ally
William Lane Craig vs Bart Ehrman: Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection? · 2006
Does the historical evidence make Jesus' bodily resurrection the best explanation of what followed his crucifixion?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Bart Ehrman
Matt Dillahunty vs Jonathan McLatchie: Is There Strong Evidence for the Resurrection? · 2020
Is there strong historical evidence that Jesus rose from the dead, or are the surviving Christian reports too indirect and insufficiently testable to establish a resurrection?
Speakers: Dr Jonathan McLatchie · Matt Dillahunty
Mike Licona vs Matt Dillahunty: Was Jesus Raised from the Dead? · 2017
Did Jesus rise from the dead, and can historical evidence plus allegedly supernatural phenomena justify that conclusion?
Speakers: Mike Licona · Matt Dillahunty
William Albrecht vs Robert Price: Did Jesus Bodily Rise from the Dead? · 2022
Did Jesus Christ bodily rise from the dead, as early Christian sources claim? Themes include: Historical Method, Miracle Possibility, and Evidential Burden; Earliest Resurrection Sources and the Meaning of Bodily; Source Provenance, Apostolic Transmission, and Multiple Attestation.
Speakers: William Albrecht · Robert Price
Robert Price vs William Lane Craig: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 1999
Do the earliest Christian sources establish burial, an empty tomb, appearances, and resurrection belief such that God raising Jesus best explains the evidence?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Robert Price
Ross Douthat vs Bart Ehrman: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2026
How much historical confidence should readers place in the Gospels and resurrection accounts: reliable witness traces or later traditions shaped by memory, theology, and debate?
Speakers: Ross Douthat · Bart Ehrman
Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2010
Did Jesus rise from the dead, and does the resurrection hypothesis better explain early Christian testimony than naturalistic alternatives?
Speakers: Mike Licona · Richard Carrier
Than Christopoulos vs Matt Dillahunty: Is the Resurrection a Historical Event? · 2024
Does the historical evidence make Jesus' resurrection more probable than competing hypotheses?
Speakers: Than Christopoulos · Matt Dillahunty
William Albrecht vs Graham Oppy: Resurrection and Ancient Christianity · 2023
Do Paul's letters, Gospel transmission, hostile witnesses, and early church structures make the bodily resurrection and Catholic continuity historically credible?
Speakers: William Albrecht · Graham Oppy
Mike Winger vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Belief in the Resurrection Unreasonable? · 2019
Is belief in Jesus' resurrection reasonable given the historical claims, testimonial sources, rival explanations, and evidential burden for supernatural causation?
Speakers: Mike Winger · Matt Dillahunty
Trent Horn vs Alex O'Connor: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2026
Did Jesus physically rise from the dead, and do early Christian testimony, rival miracle claims, martyrdom, and the empty tomb make that conclusion historically reasonable?
Speakers: Trent Horn · Alex O'Connor
Trent Horn vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Belief in the Resurrection Reasonable? · 2021
Is it reasonable to believe Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead, given historical testimony, expected evidence, background knowledge, and standards for unusual claims?
Speakers: Trent Horn · Matt Dillahunty
Bart Ehrman vs Justin Bass: Did Jesus of Nazareth Rise From the Dead? · 2023
Did Jesus of Nazareth historically rise from the dead, and do the early resurrection appearances, the unexpected messianic claim, Christianity's spread, and later visions make that explanation plausible?
Speakers: Justin Bass · Bart Ehrman
Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · 2023
Does the historical evidence make Jesus' resurrection the best explanation of the facts, or should skeptical alternatives and evidential caution prevent that conclusion?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Alex O'Connor
Christian belief and doctrine
The overall truth or rationality of Christianity, Christian conversion, salvation, atonement, hell, grace, and purgatory.
Kyle Butt vs Dan Barker — Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2009
Does the God of the Bible exist? Themes include: Existence claim and definition; Design and natural explanation; Morality and human value.
Speakers: Kyle Butt · Dan Barker
William Lane Craig vs Andrew Pyle — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2007
Does the Christian God exist? Themes include: Whether the universe began; From a cosmic cause to a personal creator; Fine-tuning, probability and design.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Andrew Pyle
John Lennox vs Michael Tooley — Atheism and Christianity · 2013
Is Christianity more reasonable than atheism? Themes include: Comparative standards and worldview scope; Evil, freedom and final justice; Science and rational inquiry.
Speakers: John Lennox · Michael Tooley
Eli Ayala vs Dan Barker — Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2026
Does the God of the Bible exist? Themes include: Motion Scope and Burdens; Logic and Intelligibility; Trinitarian Grounding and Rival Worldviews.
Speakers: Eli Ayala · Dan Barker
William Lane Craig vs Massimo Pigliucci — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2001
Does the Christian God exist? Themes include: Christian specificity and evidential burdens; Cosmic origin, causality, and a personal creator; Fine-tuning, probability, and design.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Massimo Pigliucci
Trent Horn vs Dan Barker — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2018
Does the Christian God exist? Themes include: Origins, Change, and Necessary Explanation; Resurrection and Textual Evidence; Scriptural Morality and Interpretation.
Speakers: Trent Horn · Dan Barker
Matt Slick vs Aron Ra: Is Christianity True? · 2014
Is Christianity true? Themes include: The biblical God, fiction, and warranted belief; Faith, science, and epistemic foundations; Transcendence, divine attributes, and evidence.
Speakers: Matt Slick · Aron Ra
Stuart Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity Rational? · 2023
Is Christianity rational? Themes include: Rationality, evidence, and epistemic warrant; Gospel testimony and textual reliability; Resurrection and supernatural causation.
Speakers: Stuart Knechtle · Matt Dillahunty
Richard Dawkins vs Alister McGrath: Is Christianity Rational? · 2006
Is Christianity a rational explanation of reality? Themes include: Evidence, probability, and worldview choice; Complexity, science, and explanation; Meaning, Jesus, and Christian specificity.
Speakers: Alister McGrath · Richard Dawkins
Is the Doctrine of Purgatory True? Trent Horn vs. James White · 2024
Is the doctrine of purgatory true? Themes include: Definition, satisfaction, and kinds of sin; Postmortem purification and direct presence; Fatherly discipline and temporal consequences.
Speakers: Trent Horn · James White
Does Christian Conversion Establish Truth? Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Alex O'Connor · 2024
Do personal transformation and Christianity's cultural value justify belief that Christianity is true?
Speakers: Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Alex O'Connor
Why Be a Christian? Trent Horn vs. Alex O'Connor · 2022
Does the available evidence warrant Christian belief? Themes include: Opening cumulative cases; Divine hiddenness and epistemic distance; Evil, suffering, and greater goods.
Speakers: Trent Horn · Alex O'Connor
Is Belief in God a Delusion? Richard Dawkins vs. John Lennox · 2007
Is belief in the Christian God a delusion? Themes include: Worldviews, faith, and inquiry; Science, rationality, and theism; Design, complexity, and explanation.
Speakers: Richard Dawkins · John Lennox
James White vs Shabir Ally: Sin and Salvation in the Qur'an and the Bible · 2013
Which account of sin and salvation—the Qur'an's direct forgiveness and moral accounting or the Bible's grace through Christ's atonement—is more coherent and scripturally grounded?
Speakers: James White · Shabir Ally
Peter Singer vs John Lennox: Is There a God? · 2011
Given science, human rationality, morality, suffering, and the historical claims about Jesus, is belief in the biblical God rational?
Speakers: John Lennox · Peter Singer
Matt Dillahunty vs Lewis Howitt: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Is Christianity true, and do the grounding of logic, a necessary cause, divine hiddenness, and the relation of reason to revelation support or undermine it?
Speakers: Lewis Howitt (PerspectivePhilosophy) · Matt Dillahunty
Ray Comfort vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Gospel Make Sense? · 2020
Does the Christian gospel's account of sin, atonement, and salvation make moral and explanatory sense?
Speakers: Ray Comfort · Matt Dillahunty
Jonathan McLatchie vs Alex O'Connor: Is Christianity True? · 2019
Is Christianity true, especially in light of resurrection evidence, Gospel reliability, and the moral authority of biblical teaching?
Speakers: Jonathan McLatchie · Alex O'Connor
Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Send People to Hell? · 2023
Can the Christian doctrine of hell be morally justified as self-chosen exile, sanctifying grace, and possible annihilation rather than external torture?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Alex O'Connor
Stephen Woodford vs Justin Brierley: Is Christianity Rational? · 2019
Is Christianity rational, and do its claims about God, morality, reason, and resurrection meet proportionate evidential standards?
Speakers: Stephen Woodford · Justin Brierley
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Aron Ra and TJump: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Is Christianity true, and do the Gospels, resurrection claims, moral experience, human meaning, and biblical history justify Christian faith over skeptical naturalism?
Speakers: Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle · Aron Ra and Tom Jump
Braxton Hunter vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Christian God Exist? · 2019
Does the Christian God exist, and do libertarian freedom, the Kalam argument, resurrection evidence, hiddenness, and inconsistent revelation make Christian theism more reasonable than skepticism?
Speakers: Braxton Hunter · Matt Dillahunty
Miles K. Donahue vs James Fodor: The Case Against Christianity · 2025
Do philosophical arguments, biblical beauty, religious experience, and resurrection evidence make Christianity credible, or do evil, disagreement, expert dissent, and Christian moral failure make it unlikely?
Speakers: Miles K. Donahue · James Fodor
Kyle Butt vs Michael Shermer: Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2023
Does the God of the Bible exist, and do causation, design, morality, Jesus, religious diversity, suffering, and evidential standards support or undermine that claim?
Speakers: Kyle Butt · Michael Shermer
Cliffe Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Is Christianity true, and do the Gospels, resurrection claims, moral meaning, and human value give sufficient warrant for Christian faith?
Speakers: Cliffe Knechtle · Matt Dillahunty
Derek Lambert vs Michael Jones: Atheist and Christian Discussion · 2021
Can Christian belief be rationally sustained amid skeptical challenges about faith, hell, resurrection evidence, biblical reliability, religious experience, the Exodus, and parallels with other ancient traditions?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Derek Lambert
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Alex O'Connor and Phil Halper: Does the Biblical God Exist? · 2024
Does the biblical God exist, given moral experience, Jesus, scripture, animal suffering, biblical violence, religious geography, and resurrection evidence?
Speakers: Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle · Alex O'Connor and Phil Halper
Meaning and purpose
Religious meaning, purpose, human value, existential orientation, mythic frameworks, and whether secular or theistic views better ground significance.
Richard Swinburne vs Philip Goff: What Best Explains Cosmic Purpose? · 2023
What best explains apparent cosmic purpose: an omnipotent God or a nontraditional purposeful cosmos?
Speakers: Richard Swinburne · Philip Goff
Is God the Answer to Our Meaning Crisis? Elizabeth Oldfield vs. James Marriott · 2026
Is life's meaning ultimately grounded in God or humanly generated within a meaningless universe?
Speakers: Elizabeth Oldfield · James Marriott
Religion, Science, and Meaning: Sam Harris vs. David Wolpe · 2007
Does religion provide justified knowledge and meaning beyond science? Themes include: Can science explain value, meaning, and the good life?; Religious experience, transcendence, and the mind; Religion, morality, violence, and historical comparison.
Speakers: David Wolpe · Sam Harris
Metaphorical Truth and Religious Patterns: Jonathan Pageau vs. Stephen Woodford · 2020
Do religious patterns disclose enduring truths that should guide contemporary life? Themes include: Metaphorical truth and religious prescription; Evolution, experience, and universal patterns; Contextual revision and standards of judgment.
Speakers: Jonathan Pageau · Stephen Woodford
Memes, Archetypes, and Religious Truth: Jordan Peterson vs. Richard Dawkins · 2024
Do archetypes and religious narratives convey truths that factual naturalism misses? Themes include: Memes, archetypes, and the story-shaped prioritization of facts; Biblical textual evolution, sacrifice, and inspiration; Christianity’s factual claims and symbolic truth.
Speakers: Jordan Peterson · Richard Dawkins
Greg Koukl, Alex O'Connor, and Alok Kanojia: Does Nonbelief Cause More Harm Than Good? · 2025
Does nonbelief leave people without the purpose and moral grounding needed to flourish, or can secular and spiritual practices sustain meaningful lives without Christian theism?
Speakers: Greg Koukl · Alex O'Connor and Alok Kanojia
Jordan Peterson vs Susan Blackmore: Do We Need God to Make Sense of Life? · 2018
Do humans need God, religious stories, or religiously inherited values to make sense of life, meaning, morality, suffering, and action?
Speakers: Jordan Peterson · Susan Blackmore
Jonathan Pageau vs Joe Folley: Genesis, Jesus, Science, and Faith · 2026
Do patterns, symbolism, Genesis, resurrection, worship, and social meaning point toward God as Logos, or can they be explained by human cognition, pragmatic abstraction, and bottom-up social life?
Speakers: Jonathan Pageau · Joe Folley
Christopher Hitchens vs Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate · 2010
Does religious faith reveal God, moral meaning, and human freedom, or does it replace reason with projection, authority, and harmful consolation?
Speakers: Christopher Hitchens · Rabbi David Wolpe
Jordan Peterson vs Matt Dillahunty: The Greatest God Debate In History · 2023
Does God-language name a real supernatural being, or does it function mainly as a religious, moral, and psychological substrate for meaning?
Speakers: Jordan Peterson · Matt Dillahunty
Morality and ethics
Moral arguments for God, ethical obligations, moral responsibility, religious and secular ethics, and the foundations of human flourishing.
Erik Wielenberg vs Adam Lloyd Johnson — What Is the Best Account of Objective Morality? · 2020
What is the best account of objective morality? Themes include: Ultimate foundations and stopping points; Non-natural properties and intrinsic value; Goodness, obligation, and accountability.
Speakers: Adam Lloyd Johnson · Erik Wielenberg
Michael Shermer vs Glen Scrivener — Can We Be Good Without God? · 2024
Can we be good without God? Themes include: Moral reality and secular reason; Genealogy of rights and moral reform; Rights authority and Enlightenment foundations.
Speakers: Michael Shermer · Glen Scrivener
Sam Harris vs Jonathan Haidt — Religion, moral truth, and human flourishing · 2016
Is a rational account centered on well-being sufficient to explain and guide morality? Themes include: Religious doctrine and causal explanation; Religious function, evolved psychology, and institutional feasibility; Individual reason, institutions, and moral judgment.
Speakers: Sam Harris · Jonathan Haidt
Matthew Adelstein vs Lance Bush: Moral Realism · 2021
Are there stance-independent moral facts? Themes include: Intuitions and Philosophical Agreement; Idealized Desires and Naturalism; Reflection and Empirical Predictions.
Speakers: Matthew Adelstein · Lance Bush
Joe Folley vs Glen Scrivener: Goodness Without God · 2025
Can we be good without God? Themes include: Equality and Christian genealogy; Non-theistic countermodels and necessity; Ultimate goodness and personal love.
Speakers: Joe Folley · Glen Scrivener
Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris: Can Religious Narratives Ground Morality and Meaning? · 2018
Can religious narratives provide truthful and necessary foundations for morality and meaning?
Speakers: Jordan Peterson · Sam Harris
Can There Be Morality Without God? Dinesh D'Souza vs. Peter Singer · 2008
Can there be morality without God? Themes include: The Foundation and Authority of Moral Law; Divine Command, Moral Knowledge, and Motivation; Evolution, Reason, and Altruism.
Speakers: Dinesh D'Souza · Peter Singer
John Ferrer vs Matt Dillahunty: Do We Need God for Morality? · 2018
Do we need God for morality? Themes include: Moral foundations, facts, and oughts; Moral knowledge, reason, and revelation; Scripture, slavery, and historical practice.
Speakers: John Ferrer · Matt Dillahunty
William Lane Craig vs Erik Wielenberg: God and Morality · 2018
What is the best account of objective moral values and duties: the nature and commands of God or godless normative realism?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Erik Wielenberg
William Lane Craig vs Shelly Kagan: Is God Necessary for Morality? · 2009
Is God necessary for objective moral values, duties, human significance, and accountability, or can a secular moral realism provide an adequate foundation?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Shelly Kagan
Frank Turek vs Michael Shermer: Is Morality Better Explained by God or Science? · 2015
Is objective morality better explained by God as its personal ground, or by science, evolution, and human flourishing?
Speakers: Frank Turek · Michael Shermer
David Wood vs Matt Dillahunty: God or Secular Humanism? · 2020
Which gives a better foundation for ethics: God or secular humanism? Themes include: Objective Morality and Divine Grounding; Flourishing, Consequences, and Binding Obligation; Human Value, Rights, and Cooperation.
Speakers: David Wood · Matt Dillahunty
David Baggett vs Matt Dillahunty: The Moral Argument for God · 2018
Do objective moral facts, moral knowledge, moral transformation, and moral rationality make theism a better explanation than secular ethical theories?
Speakers: David Baggett · Matt Dillahunty
Matt Slick vs Scott Clifton: Does Objective Morality Require God? · 2014
Does objective morality require God as its necessary foundation, or can secular moral reasoning explain the relevant moral truths and obligations?
Speakers: Matt Slick · Scott Clifton
Sam Harris vs Jordan Peterson: God, Atheism, The Bible, Jesus · 2018
Can religious stories, God-language, and biblical tradition ground moral truth and meaning, or should moral realism, well-being, and open inquiry replace dogmatic religious frameworks?
Speakers: Jordan Peterson · Sam Harris
Glen Scrivener vs Matt Dillahunty: Can Atheism Deliver a Better World? · 2020
Can atheism or secular humanism provide a better moral foundation for society than Christianity?
Speakers: Glen Scrivener · Matt Dillahunty
Sean McDowell vs Bart Ehrman: The Moral Argument, Guilt, and the Teachings of Jesus · 2026
Do Jesus' teachings and the West's moral transformation point to objective moral truths grounded beyond human preference, or can morality be explained as historically shaped human inclination without divine grounding?
Speakers: Sean McDowell · Bart Ehrman
Alex O'Connor vs Frank Turek: The Moral Argument Debate · 2017
Does evil and objective morality point to God, or can agnostic atheism explain moral experience without accepting a divine moral ground?
Speakers: Frank Turek · Alex O'Connor
Christopher Hitchens vs Marvin Olasky: Religion, Grace, and Secular Morality · 2007
Does religion poison everything, or does Christianity provide grace, charity, moral transformation, and historical credibility that defeat that charge?
Speakers: Christopher Hitchens · Marvin Olasky
Cliffe Knechtle vs Alex O'Connor: Christianity, Scripture, and Morality · 2025
Can Christianity's claims about forgiveness, morality, divine judgment, conquest, and slavery withstand skeptical objections?
Speakers: Cliffe Knechtle · Alex O'Connor
William Lane Craig vs Sam Harris: The God Debate II · 2011
Are the foundations of moral values and duties natural or supernatural? Themes include: The Ontological Ground of Objective Moral Value; Well-Being, Moral Objectivity, and Scientific Inquiry; From Facts to Objective Duties and Responsibility.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Sam Harris
Moral realism and objectivity
Whether objective moral facts exist, including moral realism, anti-realism, intuitionism, emotivism, error theory, and disagreement.
Eric Sampson vs Lance Bush: Is Moral Realism True? · 2022
Is moral realism true? Themes include: Positions, semantics, and the scope of realism; Whether stance-independent reasons are intelligible; Corroboration, intuition, and prima facie justification.
Speakers: Eric Sampson · Lance Bush
Is Moral Realism Better Supported? Michael Huemer vs. Don Loeb · 2022
Is stance-independent moral realism better supported than moral anti-realism? Themes include: Semantics, cognitivism, and Frege–Geach-style embedding; Stance-independence, subjectivism, and error theory; Moral practice, values, and reasons for action.
Speakers: Michael Huemer · Don Loeb
David Enoch & Eric Sampson vs Don Loeb & Matthew Lutz: Is Moral Realism True? · 2024
Are there stance-independent moral facts that people can know and that supply genuinely categorical reasons for action?
Speakers: David Enoch & Eric Sampson · Don Loeb & Matthew Lutz
David Enoch vs Justin Clarke-Doane: Moral Realism and Objectivity · 2026
Can stance-independent moral facts genuinely vindicate normative objectivity by settling what agents should do?
Speakers: David Enoch · Justin Clarke-Doane
Lance Bush vs Derek McAllister: Moral Anti-Realism vs Realism · 2025
Does moral realism have a common-sense, historical, or semantic advantage over moral anti-realism?
Speakers: Lance Bush · Derek McAllister
Mike Huemer vs Matt Lutz: Is Morality Real? · 2026
Are there objective moral facts, and can moral knowledge be justified by appearances rather than only by best-explanation evidence?
Speakers: Michael Huemer · Matt Lutz
Peter Singer, Jessica Frazier, Richard Swinburne, and Alex O'Connor: The Mystery of Morality · 2025
Are moral truths real features of reason, consciousness, religion, or emergent human life, or are moral claims best understood as expressions of feeling?
Speakers: Peter Singer, Jessica Frazier, Richard Swinburne · Alex O'Connor
Michael Huemer vs Lance Bush: Do Objective Moral Facts Exist? · 2024
Do objective moral facts exist, and can ethical intuitionism establish moral realism against anti-realist quietism, folk metaethical indeterminacy, and language-use objections?
Speakers: Michael Huemer · Lance Bush
David Enoch vs Lance Bush: Are There Objective Moral Truths? · 2026
Are there objective moral truths, and does moral realism or global normative anti-realism better explain ordinary moral judgment, deliberation, language, and disagreement?
Speakers: David Enoch · Lance Bush
Alex O'Connor vs Craig Biddle: Is Morality Objective? · 2024
Is morality objectively grounded in the factual requirements of human life, or are moral claims expressions of emotion without truth value?
Speakers: Craig Biddle · Alex O'Connor
Sam Harris vs Alex O'Connor: Objective Morality and Emotivism · 2024
Can objective morality be grounded in facts about conscious well-being, or does ethical language reduce to emotive expression plus instrumental science?
Speakers: Sam Harris · Alex O'Connor
Evil, suffering, and hiddenness
The problem of evil, animal suffering, divine hiddenness, moral narrative, and whether suffering undermines theistic claims.
Randal Rauser vs Alex Malpass — Does Suffering Provide Evidence Against Theism? · 2021
Does suffering provide evidence against theism? Themes include: The comparative likelihood argument; Background beliefs and soul-making; The Platonism analogy and bare-theism concession.
Speakers: Alex Malpass · Randal Rauser
Zac Sechler vs Scott Clifton: Is Christian belief in a loving God plausible despite divine hiddenness and the prospect of hell? · 2022
Is Christian belief in a loving God plausible despite divine hiddenness and the prospect of hell?
Speakers: Zac Sechler · Scott Clifton
Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Would a loving God allow the evil and suffering found in our world? · 2020
Would a loving God allow the evil and suffering found in our world? Themes include: Evidence, compatibility, and emotional suffering; Freedom, natural suffering, and selective intervention; Heaven, animal suffering, and continuing existence.
Speakers: Michael Jones · Alex O'Connor
Alex O'Connor vs Max Baker-Hytch: Could God Be Evil? · 2021
Does the evil-god challenge undermine belief in a wholly good God? Themes include: Challenge, scope and concessions; Moral nature and maximal greatness; Design and divine motivation.
Speakers: Alex O'Connor · Max Baker-Hytch
Divine Hiddenness and Evidential Ambiguity: Julian Baggini vs. Max Baker-Hytch · 2025
Does divine hiddenness provide good evidence against God's existence? Themes include: Hiddenness, cultural contingency, and religious diversity; Probabilistic hiddenness, coercion, and relational goods; Personal experience and sincere seeking.
Speakers: Julian Baggini · Max Baker-Hytch
Divine Hiddenness and Religious Evidence: Joe Schmid vs. Dan Paterson · 2026
Does divine hiddenness provide significant evidence against a perfectly loving God? Themes include: Formulations and nonresistant nonbelief; Relationship, development, and revelation; Distribution, salvation, and earthly costs.
Speakers: Joe Schmid · Dan Paterson
Divine Hiddenness and a Loving God: Alex O'Connor vs. Lukas Ruegger · 2022
Does divine hiddenness make the existence of a perfectly loving God unlikely? Themes include: Perfect love and nonresistant nonbelief; Natural theology, personal revelation, and epistemic access; Temporal disclosure, salvation, and scriptural consistency.
Speakers: Alex O'Connor · Lukas Ruegger
Divine Hiddenness and Christian Love: Tyler Vela vs. Michael Jones · 2023
Is divine hiddenness compatible with Christianity’s claim that God is perfectly loving? Themes include: Perfect Love and the Christian Hiddenness Problem; Fatherhood and Experienced Absence; Sanctification, Motives, and Evidence.
Speakers: Tyler Vela · Michael Jones
William Lane Craig vs Stephen Law: Does God Exist? · 2011
Does God exist, and do Craig's cumulative arguments overcome Law's evidential problem of evil and evil-God symmetry challenge?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Stephen Law
Gregory Pine vs Alex O'Connor: The Divine Hiddenness Problem · 2024
Does divine hiddenness, uneven religious geography, sincere nonbelief, hell, and original sin count against Catholic theism, or can grace, providence, and creaturely agency explain them?
Speakers: Gregory Pine · Alex O'Connor
Eric Hernandez vs Justin Schieber: Does God Exist? · 2023
Does theism or atheistic naturalism better explain evil, objective morality, knowledge, rationality, consciousness, free will, animal suffering, cosmic hostility, and non-resistant nonbelief?
Speakers: Eric Hernandez · Justin Schieber
Cameron Bertuzzi vs Justin Schieber: The Problem of Evil · 2019
Do facts about pain, pleasure, languishing, and horrendous evil count as evidence for naturalism over theism, or can soul-building and skeptical theism neutralize that evidential force?
Speakers: Cameron Bertuzzi · Justin Schieber
Trent Horn and Cameron Bertuzzi vs Alex O'Connor and Joe Schmid: Problem of Evil · 2022
Does suffering, especially animal suffering and apparently gratuitous evil, make perfect-being theism improbable, or can theodicy, skeptical theism, higher goods, and Christian hope answer the challenge?
Speakers: Trent Horn and Cameron Bertuzzi · Alex O'Connor and Joe Schmid
Sharon Dirckx vs Stephen Woodford: Why Doesn't God Stop Suffering? · 2024
Does the reality of suffering make belief in an all-powerful, all-loving God unreasonable, or does the Christian framework of a broken world, divine presence, justice, and future healing make better sense of it?
Speakers: Sharon Dirckx · Stephen Woodford
Stephen Woodford vs Simon Edwards: Is It Rational to Believe in God? · 2023
Is belief in an all-powerful, all-loving God rational given alleged gratuitous evil, salvation confusion, rationality, design, and morality?
Speakers: Stephen Woodford · Simon Edwards
William Lane Craig vs A. C. Grayling: Is Belief in God Reasonable in Light of Evil? · 2011
Is belief in God reasonable in light of tsunamis, childhood cancer, moral evil, and the apparent harshness of the natural world?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · A. C. Grayling
Josh Rasmussen vs Alex Malpass: Suffering, Theism, and Causal Finitism · 2021
Do Grim Reaper-style paradoxes support causal finitism, and does the existence and distribution of suffering favor theism or the hypothesis of indifference?
Speakers: Josh Rasmussen · Alex Malpass
Glen Scrivener vs Joe Folley: Morality, Evil, Consciousness, and Christian Narrative · 2025
Does Christian theism better account for hiddenness, evil, consciousness, morality, and moral progress than agnostic or naturalistic alternatives?
Speakers: Glen Scrivener · Joe Folley
Dinesh D'Souza vs Bart Ehrman: God, Suffering, and Evil · 2025
Can belief in a loving, powerful God survive the scale of suffering and evil in the world?
Speakers: Dinesh D'Souza · Bart Ehrman
Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig: Does God Exist? · 2026
Does God exist, and do cosmology, fine-tuning, morality, resurrection, and suffering support or undermine Christian theism?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Alex O'Connor
Mind and consciousness
Consciousness, the mind–brain relation, souls, personal identity, idealism, and whether mental reality extends beyond matter.
Daniel Dennett vs Robert Sapolsky — Do We Have Free Will? · 2023
Do human beings have free will? Themes include: Causal origins of agency; Evolved self-control and reasons; Responsibility and humane institutions.
Speakers: Daniel Dennett · Robert Sapolsky
Deepak Chopra vs Richard Dawkins — Consciousness, Cosmic Purpose, and Spirituality · 2013
Does spirituality provide knowledge of consciousness, cosmic purpose, and human well-being beyond naturalistic science?
Speakers: Deepak Chopra · Richard Dawkins
Bernardo Kastrup vs Susan Blackmore — Consciousness and illusion · 2023
Does analytic idealism adequately explain consciousness? Themes include: What illusionism claims; Idealism and rival ontologies; Regularity, perception, and mental causation.
Speakers: Bernardo Kastrup · Susan Blackmore
Philip Goff vs Joe Folley: Consciousness, Mystical Experience, and Fine-Tuning · 2026
Do consciousness, mystical experience, and fine-tuning support a panpsychist and theistic interpretation of reality?
Speakers: Philip Goff · Joe Folley
Eric Hernandez vs Tom Jump: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Existence of the Soul · 2019
Does a nonphysical human soul exist? Themes include: Determinism and rational justification; The coherence of libertarian free will; Empirical evidence about consciousness.
Speakers: Eric Hernandez · Tom Jump
Iain McGilchrist vs Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness, God, Truth, and Purpose · 2025
Does a participatory, value-directed account better explain consciousness and cosmic purpose than analytic idealism's perspectival account?
Speakers: Iain McGilchrist · Bernardo Kastrup
Does the Soul Exist? Eric Hernandez vs. Aron Ra · 2020
Does the soul exist? Themes include: definition, scientific reach, and burden of proof; intentionality, truth-bearing thought, and subjective experience; unity, indivisibility, and identity through change.
Speakers: Eric Hernandez · Aron Ra
Does Analytic Idealism Better Explain Reality? Bernardo Kastrup vs. Graham Oppy · 2021
Does analytic idealism better explain reality than scientific naturalism? Themes include: Positions, naturalism, and physicalism; Reduction, explanatory vocabularies, and identity; Conscious qualities and knowledge.
Speakers: Bernardo Kastrup · Graham Oppy
Does Analytic Idealism Explain Consciousness Better? Bernardo Kastrup vs. Tom Jump · 2023
Does analytic idealism explain consciousness and reality better than materialism? Themes include: The Hard Problem, Emergence, and Missing Knowledge; Matter, Scientific Description, and Ontological Starting Points; Dissociation, Organisms, and Individual Minds.
Speakers: Bernardo Kastrup · Tom Jump
Does the Soul Exist? Eric Hernandez vs. Matt Dillahunty · 2015
Does the soul exist? Themes include: Mental Properties, Explanation, and Testability; Unity, Personhood, and Brain Dependence; Emergence, Neuroplasticity, and Physicalism.
Speakers: Eric Hernandez · Matt Dillahunty
Dustin Crummett vs Ben Watkins: Does the Soul Exist? · 2020
Does the soul exist? Themes include: Mind–Body Foundations and Rival Ontologies; Transplants, Fission, and Personal Identity; Mental Causation and Physical Closure.
Speakers: Dustin Crummett · Ben Watkins
Iain McGilchrist vs Anil Seth: Does Consciousness Point to God? · 2026
Does consciousness fundamentally pervade reality and point toward God? Themes include: Mind, matter, and fundamental consciousness; Brain dependence and emergence; Explanatory methods and their limits.
Speakers: Iain McGilchrist · Anil Seth
Michael Huemer vs Graham Oppy: Do Souls Exist? · 2022
Do conscious persons possess nonphysical mental substances that can survive bodily death? Themes include: Phenomenal consciousness and physical explanation; Intentionality, mental causation, and agency; From nonphysical properties to subjects and personal identity.
Speakers: Michael Huemer · Graham Oppy
Bernardo Kastrup vs Susan Blackmore: What Is Consciousness? · 2023
Is consciousness the ontological foundation of reality rather than an emergent property of matter?
Speakers: Bernardo Kastrup · Susan Blackmore
Keith Ward vs Daniel Dennett: Are We More Than Matter? · 2019
Are consciousness, personal identity, purpose, value, and free agency irreducible to the physical world?
Speakers: Keith Ward · Daniel Dennett
Eben Alexander and Raymond Moody vs Sean Carroll and Steven Novella: Is Death Final? · 2014
Does consciousness survive bodily death, or are near-death experiences and reports of apparent contact with the dead better explained as brain-based and psychological phenomena?
Speakers: Eben Alexander and Raymond Moody · Sean Carroll and Steven Novella
Sharon Dirckx vs Philip Goff: Does Consciousness Point to God? · 2019
Does consciousness point beyond materialism to God, or can a non-theistic panpsychist framework explain conscious experience without adding theism?
Speakers: Sharon Dirckx · Philip Goff
Keith Ward vs Michael Ruse: Mind, Consciousness, and God · 2013
Does human consciousness, religious and moral experience, and free agency make best sense within a God-centered mind-first reality, or can agnostic naturalism absorb those mysteries without theism?
Speakers: Keith Ward · Michael Ruse
Michael Jones vs Matt Dillahunty: Reason to Believe in God? · 2020
Do digital physics, cosmic consciousness, and introspective idealism provide good reasons to believe in a necessary immaterial mind, or do those arguments fail demonstrability, probability, and burden-of-proof standards?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Matt Dillahunty
Brian Cutter vs Graham Oppy: Does Mind-Brain Harmony Point to God? · 2025
Does psychophysical harmony, the apparent fit between conscious states and physical or functional states, provide evidence for God over naturalism?
Speakers: Brian Cutter · Graham Oppy
Michael Jones vs Matt Dillahunty: Quantum Idealism and Demonstrability · 2026
Does quantum mechanics and idealism provide good reason to treat consciousness or a divine mind as fundamental, or does the claim fail public demonstrability and physical-interaction tests?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Matt Dillahunty
Philip Goff vs Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Fundamental? · 2023
Is consciousness a fundamental feature of reality, or can physicalism explain conscious experience through higher-level descriptions of the physical world?
Speakers: Philip Goff · Sean Carroll
Free will and determinism
Free will, determinism, compatibilism, libertarian agency, and their implications for responsibility, desert, and punishment.
Michael Huemer vs Robert Sapolsky: Does Free Will Exist—and Does It Matter? · 2024
Do people sometimes control which of multiple genuinely available actions occurs, and does that freedom justify responsibility?
Speakers: Michael Huemer · Robert Sapolsky
Daniel Dennett vs Gregg Caruso: Free Will and Moral Responsibility · 2021
Does the natural human capacity for reasons-responsive control justify free will, moral desert, and responsibility practices?
Speakers: Daniel Dennett · Gregg Caruso
Alex O'Connor vs Dr Alex Carter: Free Will and Determinism · 2024
Do determinism and unchosen desires eliminate free will, or can determined agents be free when acting voluntarily and without coercion?
Speakers: Alex O'Connor · Alex Carter
Sam Harris vs Daniel Dennett: Does Free Will Exist? · 2018
Does determinism or indeterminism undermine free will and moral responsibility, or can reasons-responsive agency provide a compatibilist form of freedom worth preserving?
Speakers: Sam Harris · Daniel Dennett
Nathan Hawkins vs Joe Folley: Free Will, Compatibilism, and Idealism · 2026
Can libertarian free will and Bradleyan idealism answer determinist and naturalist pressure better than compatibilist pragmatism?
Speakers: Nathan Hawkins · Joe Folley
Nathan Hawkins vs Joe Folley: Do We Really Have Free Will? · 2026
Does human freedom require libertarian alternative possibilities and sourcehood, or can compatibilist notions of will, responsibility, and practical agency survive determinism?
Speakers: Nathan Hawkins · Joe Folley
Alex O'Connor vs Craig Biddle: Free Will - Do You Have It? · 2025
Do human beings have free will, either as ultimate control over action or as a volitional capacity to focus and use reason?
Speakers: Craig Biddle · Alex O'Connor
Logic, reason, and presuppositions
Logic, rationality, evidence, skepticism, presuppositional arguments, burden of proof, and the conditions for intelligible inquiry.
Matt Dillahunty vs Blake Giunta — Faith and Rational Justification · 2018
Must God's possibility be demonstrated before belief in God can be rationally justified? Themes include: Faith, rationality, and shared ground; Truth-directed standards of justification; Possibility and ordinary inference.
Speakers: Matt Dillahunty · Blake Giunta
James Anderson vs Tom Jump: Logic and Belief in God · 2020
Is there reason to believe in God? Themes include: Logic to God; Shared Truth Content; Unexpressed Mathematical Truths.
Speakers: James Anderson · Tom Jump
Religious Belief as an Obligation: Ross Douthat vs. Alex O'Connor · 2026
Does the available evidence make religious belief an obligation? Themes include: Obligation and the evidence from consciousness; Fine-tuning and cosmic order; Experience, hiddenness, and the atheist alternative.
Speakers: Ross Douthat · Alex O'Connor
Tyler Vela vs Matt Dillahunty: Is There Good Evidence for God? · 2020
Do laws of logic and other transcendental facts provide good evidence for a necessary personal God?
Speakers: Tyler Vela · Matt Dillahunty
Alvin Plantinga vs Stephen Law: Is the EAAN Successful? · 2010
Is the evolutionary argument against naturalism successful at showing that naturalism plus evolution gives its believers a defeater for trusting their cognitive faculties?
Speakers: Alvin Plantinga · Stephen Law
Alex O'Connor vs Max Baker-Hytch: The Argument for God From Reason · 2020
Does rationality undermine naturalism and make a theistic or otherwise non-naturalist account of mind more probable?
Speakers: Max Baker-Hytch · Alex O'Connor
Guillaume Bignon vs Graham Oppy: Religious Experience and the Case for God · 2022
Can Bignon's conversion story, religious experience, and supporting arguments rationally support Christian belief, or do rival experiences and naturalist explanations undercut their evidential force?
Speakers: Guillaume Bignon · Graham Oppy
Ed Feser vs Graham Oppy: Are There Any Good Arguments for God? · 2020
Are there good arguments for God, and does Feser's Aristotelian proof survive Oppy's theory-comparison and persistence objections?
Speakers: Ed Feser · Graham Oppy
Jay Dyer vs Alex Malpass: The TAG Argument · 2019
Does the transcendental argument show that logic, induction, knowledge, and ethics require the Orthodox Christian God, or can those preconditions be understood without that presupposition?
Speakers: Jay Dyer · Alex Malpass
Alex Malpass vs James Anderson: Does Logic Prove God? · 2021
Does the existence of necessary truths or laws of logic support a necessarily existing divine mind, or can propositions be explained without God?
Speakers: James Anderson · Alex Malpass
Matt Dillahunty vs Matt Slick: Is Secular Humanism Superior to Christianity? · 2016
Is secular humanism superior to Christianity at achieving human flourishing, rational decision-making, moral reasoning, and conflict resolution?
Speakers: Matt Dillahunty · Matt Slick
Jay Dyer vs Matt Dillahunty: Transcendental Argument for Theism · 2019
Does the transcendental argument show that Orthodox Christian theism is needed to ground logic, truth, induction, ethics, and knowledge?
Speakers: Jay Dyer · Matt Dillahunty
Frank Turek vs Michael Shermer: What Best Explains Reality? · 2018
What best explains reality: theism grounded in God as the cause of creation, reason, information, morality, evil, and science, or skeptical naturalism grounded in evidence and scientific inquiry?
Speakers: Frank Turek · Michael Shermer
Joel Settecase vs Tom Jump: Is There Evidence for God? · 2025
Does evidence for God exist, or are logic, mathematics, and intelligibility better explained without Christian theism?
Speakers: Joel Settecase · Tom Jump
Matt Dillahunty vs Sye Ten Bruggencate: Is It Reasonable to Believe God Exists? · 2014
Is belief in God reasonable, and can truth, logic, knowledge, induction, and evidence be accounted for without Christian revelation?
Speakers: Sye Ten Bruggencate · Matt Dillahunty
Religion, society, and public reason
Religion in public life, secular humanism, civilization, social order, Islam, political authority, and the future of human communities.
Matt Dillahunty vs Randal Rauser — Humanism or Christianity? · 2023
Is secular humanism better for society than Christianity? Themes include: Frameworks for present human flourishing; Revision, public reasons, and practical guidance; Human worth and equal status.
Speakers: Matt Dillahunty · Randal Rauser
Aron Ra vs Michael Jones — Is Christianity dangerous? · 2019
Is Christianity dangerous? Themes include: Scripture, History, and Coercive Power; Health, Family, and Social Harm; Cross-National Outcomes and Climate Policy.
Speakers: Aron Ra · Michael Jones
Has New Atheism Failed? Alister McGrath vs. Alex O'Connor · 2023
Has New Atheism failed? Themes include: Rise, goals, and competing measures of success; Epistemic standards, evidence, and appeals to science; Morality, scripture, and internal critique.
Speakers: Alister McGrath · Alex O'Connor
Capitalism, Marxism, and Human Happiness: Jordan Peterson vs. Slavoj Žižek · 2019
Does capitalism provide a greater opportunity for human happiness than Marxism? Themes include: Marxist and Capitalist Systemic Frameworks; Hierarchy, Class, and Inequality; Markets, Material Prosperity, and Political Economy.
Speakers: Jordan Peterson · Slavoj Žižek
John Onaiyekan & Ann Widdecombe vs Stephen Fry & Christopher Hitchens: The Catholic Church Is a Force for Good in the World · 2009
Is the Catholic Church, considered as an institution and global social force, a force for good in the world?
Speakers: John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe · Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens vs Alister McGrath: Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World · 2007
Is religious belief in the modern world intellectually credible and morally constructive, or is it an evidentially unsupported source of coercion and harm?
Speakers: Alister McGrath · Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens vs Tony Blair: Is Religion a Force for Good in the World? · 2010
On balance, is religion a force for good in the world? Themes include: Net Balance, Causal Attribution, and Secular Alternatives; Service, Welfare, and Human Solidarity; Conflict, Peace, and Reconciliation.
Speakers: Tony Blair · Christopher Hitchens
Steven Pinker vs Ross Douthat: Do We Need God? · 2026
Are people and societies better off with belief in God, or can secular reason and institutions provide morality, purpose, and social cooperation more effectively?
Speakers: Ross Douthat · Steven Pinker
Sam Harris vs Dennis Prager: Religion, Morality, and Public Reason · 2014
Does religious belief better ground moral knowledge and identify social evil, or can secular ethical realism guide moral progress without sacred texts?
Speakers: Dennis Prager · Sam Harris
Stephen Woodford vs Glen Scrivener: Does Religion Poison Everything? · 2026
Does religion poison everything by adding doctrine, dogma, revelation, and moral harm to human decency, or does Christianity supply the sacred ideals and institutions that made modern compassion possible?
Speakers: Stephen Woodford · Glen Scrivener
Tom Holland vs A. C. Grayling: Did Christianity Give Us Our Human Values? · 2019
Did Christianity give the modern West its human values, or do dignity, equality, humanism, science, and moral concern owe more to classical, Axial Age, Enlightenment, and secular sources?
Speakers: Tom Holland · A. C. Grayling
Christopher Hitchens vs Harold Kushner and Peter Gomes: God, Religion, and Morality · 2009
Does belief in God and religious tradition provide necessary moral meaning, resilience, and communal wisdom, or does religion add false claims, sectarian authority, and distinctive moral harms?
Speakers: Harold Kushner and Peter Gomes · Christopher Hitchens
Glen Scrivener vs Alex O'Connor: Morality, Freedom, Slavery, and the Bible · 2026
Did Christian faith give the modern West its beliefs in kindness, equality, freedom, consent, and abolition, or are those values better explained by mixed traditions, social struggle, and secular moral development?
Speakers: Glen Scrivener · Alex O'Connor
Michael Jones vs Stephen Law: Christianity vs Humanism · 2025
Does Christianity or humanism offer a brighter future for humanity, especially for moral formation, social health, human rights, truth, and pluralistic freedom?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Stephen Law
Michael Jones vs Lawrence Krauss: Christianity or Secular Ethics - What's Best for Society? · 2025
Which is better for society: Christianity, understood as a Christian-value society with a largely Christian population, or secular ethics?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Lawrence Krauss
Ben Shapiro vs Alex O'Connor: The Atheist Delusion, Free Will, and Society · 2023
Does atheism depend on borrowed religious or extra-natural assumptions about free will, morality, reason, and social order, or can secular life face the truth without religious scaffolding?
Speakers: Ben Shapiro · Alex O'Connor
Christopher Hitchens vs Tariq Ramadan: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? · 2010
Is Islam a religion of peace, or do its claims, institutions, and enforcement patterns make that description untenable?
Speakers: Christopher Hitchens · Tariq Ramadan
Christopher Hitchens vs Peter Hitchens: Iraq, God, and Moral Authority · 2008
Was the invasion of Iraq defensible, and does religion supply or corrupt moral authority? Themes include: Sovereignty, Aggression, and the Case for Intervention; Consequences and Strategic Balance in Iraq; From Cosmic Order to Divine Moral Authority.
Speakers: Christopher Hitchens · Peter Hitchens
Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs Richard Dawkins: The God Debate · 2024
Can Hirsi Ali's Christian turn be justified by personal experience, truth, and civilizational need, or should Dawkins's atheist truth test reject it?
Speakers: Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox: Is God Great? · 2017
Is God great, and does Christian theism better explain science, morality, dignity, and hope than Hitchens's anti-theistic critique?
Speakers: John Lennox · Christopher Hitchens
Dinesh D'Souza vs Matt Dillahunty: Does God Exist? What Is a Woman? · 2023
Should beliefs about God, gender, politics, and social welfare be guided by faith-informed inference, empirical evidence, or secular-humanist consequences?
Speakers: Dinesh D'Souza · Matt Dillahunty
Christopher Hitchens vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is Religion the Problem? · 2010
Is religion the problem, or does the God hypothesis better explain life, morality, purpose, and human experience than secular doubt?
Speakers: Christopher Hitchens · Dinesh D'Souza
God’s existence and rational belief
Broad cumulative cases for or against God's existence and the reasonableness of belief, spanning several questions without one specialist issue dominating. Creator-only arguments are not treated as sufficient to establish a personal, involved God.
Justin Schieber vs Randal Rauser — Religious Disagreement and God · 2017
Is religious disagreement evidence against God’s existence? Themes include: From fundamental disagreement to evidence; Possible reasons to permit disagreement; Truth, salvation and kinds of relationship.
Speakers: Justin Schieber · Randal Rauser
Richard Swinburne vs Bart Ehrman — God and Suffering · 2009
Does Christianity adequately explain suffering? Themes include: Coherence and responsible agency; Natural evil and victim benefit; Biblical diversity and conflict.
Speakers: Richard Swinburne · Bart Ehrman
William Lane Craig vs Michael Nugent — Does God Exist? · 2017
Does God exist? Themes include: Cosmic origin and causation; Fine-tuning and design; Divine mind, change and freedom.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Michael Nugent
Randal Rauser vs Dan Barker — Is the Christian God Worthy of Worship? · 2020
Is the Christian God worthy of worship? Themes include: Starting points and reading the Bible; Inspiration, human voices, and the Psalms; Violence, conquest, and divine agency.
Speakers: Randal Rauser · Dan Barker
Paulogia vs Michael Jones — Divine Hiddenness and a Perfectly Loving God · 2019
Does divine hiddenness count against a perfectly loving God? Themes include: Scope of the hiddenness challenge; The one-exception claim and its probability; Postmortem reconciliation.
Speakers: Paulogia · Michael Jones
Trent Horn vs Raphael Lataster — Does God Exist? · 2016
Does God exist? Themes include: Burdens and inference method; Contingency and necessary being; Finite origin and theories of time.
Speakers: Trent Horn · Raphael Lataster
SJ Thomason vs Scott Clifton — Morality, Meaning and God · 2020
Do morality and meaning point to God? Themes include: Objective moral facts and well-being; Transcendent grounding and categorical duties; Moral motivation and divine command.
Speakers: SJ Thomason · Scott Clifton
Randal Rauser vs Justin Schieber — Does God Exist? · 2015
Does God exist? Themes include: Rational belief and epistemic limits; God as explanation and prior simplicity; Moral knowledge and disagreement.
Speakers: Randal Rauser · Justin Schieber
Adam Lloyd Johnson vs Dan Barker — Does God Exist? · 2022
Does God exist? Themes include: Burden, evidence, and qualified belief; Cosmic origin and causal explanation; Design, fine-tuning, and alternatives.
Speakers: Adam Lloyd Johnson · Dan Barker
William Lane Craig vs Klemens Kappel — Does God Exist? · 2012
Does God exist? Themes include: Warrant, proof, and disagreement; Contingency, cosmic beginning, and personal explanation; Fine-tuning, science, and disputed premises.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Klemens Kappel
Dinesh D’Souza vs Dan Barker — Does God Exist? · 2009
Does God exist? Themes include: Warrant, divine definition, and suffering; Cosmic beginning, infinity, and explanatory limits; Fine-tuning, selection, and designer inference.
Speakers: Dinesh D'Souza · Dan Barker
Frank Turek vs Dennis Nørmark — Does God Exist? · 2014
Does God exist? Themes include: Cosmological origins and fine-tuning; Miracles, resurrection, and historical evidence; Morality, humanism, and violence.
Speakers: Frank Turek · Dennis Nørmark
Matt Slick vs Dan Barker — Does God Exist? · 2014
Does God exist? Themes include: Burden and public evidence; Logic and intelligibility; Cosmology and causation.
Speakers: Matt Slick · Dan Barker
William Lane Craig vs Michael Tooley — Is God Real? · 2010
Is God real? Themes include: Creator, Origin, and Design; Inductive Probability and Property Reasoning; Moral Reality and Grounding.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Michael Tooley
William Lane Craig vs Austin Dacey — Does God Exist? · 2004
Does God exist? Themes include: Cosmic existence and origin; Fine-tuning and evolutionary design; Moral reality and suffering.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Austin Dacey
Al Sharpton vs Christopher Hitchens — God, religion, and morality · 2007
Is God great? Themes include: Truth, order, and divine character; God distinguished from religious authority; Competing sources of morality.
Speakers: Al Sharpton · Christopher Hitchens
Does God Exist? John Lennox vs. Michael Shermer · 2008
Does God exist? Themes include: Belief, atheism, evidence, and falsifiability; Cosmic origins, intelligibility, fine-tuning, and regress; Mind, neuroscience, materialism, and rationality.
Speakers: John Lennox · Michael Shermer
Is God a Figment of Our Imagination? Michael Shermer vs. Alister McGrath · 2017
Is God a figment of our imagination? Themes include: Epistemic burdens, evidence, and human limits; Religious diversity and human construction; Meaning, value, and naturalistic explanation.
Speakers: Michael Shermer · Alister McGrath
Does God Exist? William Lane Craig vs. Antony Flew · 1998
Does God exist? Themes include: Cosmological causation and the universe’s beginning; Fine-tuning and design inference; Morality, freedom, hell, and divine goodness.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Antony Flew
William Lane Craig vs Victor Stenger: Does God Exist? · 2010
Does God exist? Themes include: Modal Possibility and Contingent Explanation; Cosmic Origin, Causation, and Temporal Boundaries; Naturalistic Explanatory Reach: Design, Mind, and Time.
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Victor Stenger
Bertrand Russell vs Frederick Copleston: Does God Exist? · 1948
Can God's existence be established through contingency, religious experience, or moral obligation?
Speakers: Frederick Copleston · Bertrand Russell
William Lane Craig vs Peter Millican: Does God Exist? · 2011
Does the evidence from cosmology, fine-tuning, morality, Jesus' resurrection, and religious experience make Christian theism more reasonable than skeptical atheism?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Peter Millican
Stuart Knechtle vs Aron Ra: Does God Exist? · 2023
Does God exist, and do design, morality, logic, and experience support that conclusion? Themes include: Evidence, Burden, and Methodological Naturalism; Cosmic Origin, Physical Order, and Design; Biological Complexity, Evolution, and Intelligent Design.
Speakers: Stuart Knechtle · Aron Ra
Daniel Dennett vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is God a Human Invention? · 2007
Is God a human invention, or do cosmological fine-tuning, morality, consciousness, and religious experience provide rational support for a real divine creator?
Speakers: Daniel Dennett · Dinesh D'Souza
Frank Turek vs Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? · 2008
Does God exist, and do cosmology, design, morality, consciousness, and Christian claims outweigh the anti-theist critique of religion?
Speakers: Frank Turek · Christopher Hitchens
William Lane Craig vs Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? · 2009
Does God exist, and do cosmology, fine-tuning, morality, resurrection, suffering, and religion's record make Christian theism more plausible than atheism?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Christopher Hitchens
From a creator to a personal God
Creator-only (deistic) arguments and the further step to a personal, involved God. These debates test whether a creator, designer, or ultimate foundation also warrants claims about divine goodness, providence, revelation, or intervention. This describes the arguments, not the speakers' religious identities.
William Dembski vs Christopher Hitchens — Does a good God exist? · 2010
Does a good God exist? Themes include: Design inference and evidential reach; Cosmos, providence, and human significance; Evolution and scientific method.
Speakers: William Dembski · Christopher Hitchens
Shmuley Boteach vs Christopher Hitchens — God and morality · 2008
Does God exist? Themes include: Existence and explanatory burden; Cosmos, life, and design; Evolution and divine guidance.
Speakers: Shmuley Boteach · Christopher Hitchens
Philip Goff vs Graham Oppy: Is Finite Theism Preferable to Naturalism? · 2026
Is finite theism preferable to naturalism? Themes include: Finite divine power and suffering; Fine-tuning, comparative evidence, and modality; Simplicity, prior probability, and theory comparison.
Speakers: Philip Goff · Graham Oppy
Does God Exist? Trent Horn vs. Ben Watkins · 2021
Does God exist? Themes include: Change, causal finitude, and ultimate explanation; Divine attributes, freedom, and the gap problem; Simplicity and comparative prior probability.
Speakers: Trent Horn · Ben Watkins
Michael Huemer vs Joshua Rasmussen: Does God Exist? · 2026
Does God exist? Themes include: Comparative explanatory case and motion threshold; Dependence, foundation, and ultimate explanation; Arbitrary limits, infinity, and maximal power.
Speakers: Josh Rasmussen · Michael Huemer
Zac Sechler vs Matt Dillahunty: Did a Perfect Mind Create the Universe? · 2022
Did a perfect mind create the universe, and do simplicity, moral agents, beauty, fine-tuning, meaning, and purpose favor that hypothesis over non-theism?
Speakers: Zac Sechler · Matt Dillahunty
Michael Egnor vs Matt Dillahunty: Does God Exist? · 2021
Does God exist, and do Thomistic proofs, moral law, and natural theology meet the burden of proof against skeptical atheism?
Speakers: Michael Egnor · Matt Dillahunty
Josh Rasmussen vs Graham Oppy: Theism, Naturalism, and Ultimate Reality · 2020
Is a theistic supreme foundation or a naturalistic initial reality the better account of ultimate reality, mind, and worldview simplicity?
Speakers: Josh Rasmussen · Graham Oppy
Theism, naturalism, and ultimate reality
Comparisons of whole worldviews: whether theism, naturalism, or other accounts best explain reality, consciousness, value, and experience. The focus is comparative explanatory scope, simplicity, and evidence, rather than a creator-only argument or one divine attribute.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Tom Jump — Does God Exist? · 2019
Does God exist? Themes include: Bayesian comparison and priors; Cosmic conditions and necessary origins; Explanatory rivals and empirical testing.
Speakers: Jonathan McLatchie · Tom Jump
Christopher Hitchens vs Douglas Wilson — Truth, Goodness, and Beauty · 2008
Are truth, goodness, and beauty better explained by Christian theism than by atheistic naturalism?
Speakers: Douglas Wilson · Christopher Hitchens
Richard Swinburne vs Peter Millican: Does God Exist? · 2022
Is God the simplest and most probable explanation of the universe and its general features?
Speakers: Richard Swinburne · Peter Millican
Graham Oppy vs Kenny Pearce: Is There a God? · 2022
Does theism offer a better overall explanation of reality than naturalism? Themes include: Standards for Comparing Complete Worldviews; Grounding and the Explanation of Contingent Causal History; Necessary Existence and Explanatory Termination.
Speakers: Kenny Pearce · Graham Oppy
William Lane Craig vs Paul Draper: The Existence of God · 1997
Does the total evidence concerning the universe, life, morality, Jesus, religious experience, suffering, and hiddenness favor theism over naturalism?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Paul Draper
Paul Copan vs Stephen Woodford: Is Belief in God Reasonable? · 2024
Is belief in God reasonable, given cosmology, fine-tuning, consciousness, rationality, morality, evil, religious history, and the record of scientific explanation?
Speakers: Paul Copan · Stephen Woodford
Jonathan McLatchie vs Alex O'Connor: Theism or Naturalism? · 2022
Theism or naturalism: which provides a better account of reality, including biological information, resurrection testimony, divine hiddenness, religious geography, and suffering?
Speakers: Jonathan McLatchie · Alex O'Connor
William Lane Craig and Rowan Williams vs Sabine Hossenfelder and Slavoj Žižek: Does God Exist? · 2026
Does God belong in our best account of reality, given cosmology, explanation, resurrection claims, suffering, religious practice, and the limits of science?
Speakers: William Lane Craig and Rowan Williams · Sabine Hossenfelder and Slavoj Žižek
William Lane Craig, Jessica Frazier, Philip Goff, and Joe Folley: Did God Create Reality? · 2026
Did God create physical reality, and does classical theism best explain the universe, objective meaning, mystical experience, consciousness, and moral obligation?
Speakers: William Lane Craig · Jessica Frazier, Philip Goff, and Joe Folley
Richard Swinburne vs Graham Oppy: Is Theism Probable? · 2022
Is theism more probable than naturalism when judged by simplicity, explanatory scope, fine-tuning, consciousness, and modality?
Speakers: Richard Swinburne · Graham Oppy
Frank Turek vs David Silverman: Which Better Explains Reality? · 2013
Which better explains reality: theism, with God as the ground of creation, reason, information, morality, evil, and science, or atheism, with natural inquiry and human responsibility?
Speakers: Frank Turek · David Silverman
Frank Turek vs Christopher Hitchens: What Best Explains Reality? · 2011
What best explains reality: theism, with a personal creator and revelation, or atheism, with no supernatural dimension?
Speakers: Frank Turek · Christopher Hitchens
Rowan Williams, Philip Goff, Elizabeth Oldfield, and Alex O'Connor: Between God and Atheism · 2024
Do fine-tuning, suffering, religious experience, practice, and purpose make Christianity or a God-ish hypothesis more plausible than atheist skepticism?
Speakers: Rowan Williams, Philip Goff, and Elizabeth Oldfield · Alex O'Connor, with Jack Symes moderating
Michael Jones vs Richard Carrier: Does God Exist? · 2025
Does the evidence from consciousness, emergence, morality, and cosmology make theism more plausible than naturalism?
Speakers: Michael Jones · Richard Carrier
God’s nature and attributes
The coherence and implications of divine simplicity, omnipotence, omniscience, timelessness, goodness, freedom, and uniqueness. These debates ask what God could be like, rather than treating evidence for a creator as proof of all those attributes.
Christopher Tomaszewski vs Joe Schmid: Classical Theism and Monotheism · 2020
Does Thomistic classical theism adequately account for abstract objects, divine uniqueness, and relations to creation?
Speakers: Christopher Tomaszewski · Joe Schmid
Gregory Pine vs Joseph Schmid: Is Divine Simplicity True? · 2021
Is divine simplicity true? Themes include: From dependent motion to pure actuality; Subsistent being and necessary composition; Necessary truths, divine ideas, and predication.
Speakers: Gregory Pine · Joseph Schmid
Keith Ward vs Stephen Law: Does God Exist? · 2015
Does God exist? Themes include: Mind-like reality beyond appearance; Intelligibility and cosmic explanation; Divine goodness and suffering.
Speakers: Keith Ward · Stephen Law
Richard Swinburne vs Michael Huemer: Is Theism Coherent? · 2026
Is theism coherent, especially if God is described as omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and infinite in power or knowledge?
Speakers: Richard Swinburne · Michael Huemer
Gregory Pine vs Ben Watkins: Does God Exist? · 2020
Does God exist, and do Thomistic arguments from being, act and potency, divine simplicity, revelation, evil, freedom, and changing knowledge support or undermine classical theism?
Speakers: Gregory Pine · Ben Watkins
Joe Schmid vs Chris Tomaszewski: Is Divine Simplicity True? · 2020
Is divine simplicity, understood as God's absence of real intrinsic parts or composition, coherent with classical theism, Trinitarian doctrine, divine freedom, and omniscient knowledge of contingent reality?
Speakers: Chris Tomaszewski · Joe Schmid