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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.
Debates are grouped by their main question. Scores assess the reasoning presented, not the truth of a position. Read the assessment method.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.