Prominent Atheist/Agnostic vs. Theist Debates
Category: God and Morality
Nontheist | Theist | Year | Topic | Video | Audio | Transcript | Summary | Assessment |
Raymond Bradley | Matthew Flanagan | 2010 | Is God the Source of Morality? | LINK | LINK | LINK | None | None |
Shelley Kagan | William Lane Craig | 2009 | Is God Necessary for Morality? | LINK | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A |
Keith Parsons | O. Gerald Trigg | 2001 | Is Christianity More Effective than Humanism in Achieving a Moral Society? | LINK | N/A | N/A | None | None |
Paul Kurtz | William Lane Craig | 2001 | Resolved: Goodness without God is Good Enough | LINK | N/A | LINK | LINK | N/A |
Raymond Bradley | Paul Chamberlain | 1996 | Can There Be an Objective Morality wihout God? | N/A | N/A | LINK | None | None |
Category: Resurrection of Jesus or Christianity
Nontheist | Theist | Year | Topic | Video | Audio | Transcript | Summary | Assessment |
Robert Greg Cavin | Michael Licona | 2012 | Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? | TBD | TBD | N/A | None | None |
Richard Carrier | William Lane Craig | 2009 | Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? | LINK | N/A | N/A | LINK | None |
Richard Carrier | Jake O’Connell | 2008 | On Paul’s Theory of Resurrection | None | None | LINK | None | LINK |
Richard Carrier | Mike Licona | 2004 | On the Resurrection of Jesus Christ | N/A | N/A | N/A | LINK | None |
Robert M. Price | William Lane Craig | 1999 | Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? | None | LINK | N/A | LINK | N/A |
Robert M. Price | Craig Blomberg | 1999 | Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? | TBD | TBD | N/A | TBD | TBD |
Keith Parsons | William Lane Craig | 1998 | Why I Am/Am Not a Christian | TBD | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A |
Gerd Lüdemann | William Lane Craig | 1997 | Jesus’ Resurrection: Fact or Figment? | LINK | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A |
Raymond Bradley | William Lane Craig | 1995 | Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? | None | LINK | LINK | None | LINK |
Farrell Till | Michael Horner | 1995 | Did Jesus Rise Bodily From the Dead? | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Dan Barker | Michael Horner | 1994 | Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead? | None | None | LINK | None | LINK |
Farrell Till | Norman Geisler | 1994 | Did Jesus of Nazareth Bodily Rise from the Dead? | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Category: God’s Existence
Nontheist | Theist | Year | Topic | Video | Audio | Transcript | Summary | Assessment |
Stephen Law | William Lane Craig | 2011 | Does God Exist? | N/A | LINK | N/A | LINK | LINK |
Michael Tooley | Alvin Plantinga | 2008 | Knowledge of God | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Andrew Melnyk | Stewart Goetz, Charles Taliaferro | 2007 | God vs. Blind Nature:Mind and Will | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Paul Draper | Alvin Plantinga | 2007 | God vs. Blind Nature:Evil and Evolution | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Quentin Smith, Paul Draper | Robin Collins | 2007 | God vs. Blind Nature:Science and the Cosmos | None | None | LINK | None | None |
J.L. Schellenberg | Jeffrey Jordan | 2008 | God vs. Blind Nature:Faith and Uncertainty | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Richard Carrier | Tom Wanchick | 2006 | Naturalism vs. Theism | None | None | LINK | None | LINK |
Richard Carrier, Dan Barker | Hassanain Rajabali, Michael Corey | 2004 | Existence of God | LINK | N/A | N/A | LINK | Self-Assessment |
Eddie Tabash | Richard Swinburne | 2003 | Existence of God | N/A | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A |
Doug Krueger | Christopher McHugh | 2003 | Theism or Atheism | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Bill Cooke | Imran Aijaz | 2002 | Existence of God | None | None | LINK | None | LINK |
Jeffery Jay Lowder | Phil Fernandes | 1999 | Naturalism vs. Theism | LINK | LINK | N/A | LINK | N/A |
Theodore Drange | Douglas Wilson | 1999 | The Existence of the Christian God: TAG vs. ANB & ANC | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A | N/A |
Edward Tabash | William Lane Craig | 1999 | Christianity vs. Secular Humanism | LINK | N/A | None | None | None |
Paul Draper | William Lane Craig | 1998 | Does God Exist? | LINK | N/A | None | LINK | LINK |
Doug Jesseph | William Lane Craig | 1998 | Does God Exist? | LINK | N/A | None | LINK | LINK |
Theodore Drange | William Lane Craig | 1998 | Does God Exist? | LINK | N/A | None | LINK | LINK |
Michael Martin | Phil Fernandes | 1997 | Existence of God | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A | N/A |
Quentin Smith | William Lane Craig | 1996 | Does God Exist? | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | LINK |
Quentin Smith | William Lane Craig | 1996 | Does the Universe Have a Divine Cause? | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A | N/A |
Doug Jesseph | William Lane Craig | 1996 | Does God Exist? | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A | N/A |
Michael Martin | John Frame | 1996 | The Transcendental Argument for the Nonexistence of God | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A | N/A |
Raymond Bradley | William Lane Craig | 1995 | Kalam Cosmological Argument | N/A | N/A | LINK | N/A | N/A |
Michael Tooley | William Lane Craig | 1994 | Does God Exist? | None | N/A | LINK | None | None |
Edward Tabash | Peter van Inwagen | 1993 | Existence of God | N/A | N/A | None | None | None |
Edward Tabash | Greg Bahnsen | 1993 | Existence of God | LINK | N/A | None | None | LINK |
Keith Parsons,Michael Martin | Douglas Jones | 1991 | Is Non-Christian Thought Justifiable? | None | None | LINK | None | None |
Bertrand Russell | Fredetrick Copleston | 1948 | Existence of God | None | LINK | LINK | None | None |
For a comprehensive list of all known atheism vs. theism debates, see Luke Muelhauser’s “500+ Atheism vs. Theism Debates” at his Common Sense Atheism site.