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Logic, rationality, evidence, skepticism, presuppositional arguments, burden of proof, and the conditions for intelligible inquiry.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.