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.
