Religious Debate

Formal Debates

• Christopher Hitchens vs. Al Sharpton - Author Christopher Hitchens debates the Reverend Al Sharpton LA Times Book Festival on the persistence of religious belief in a world of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement.
• Dan Barker vs. Todd Friel
• Debating Creationism and Darwinism - With PZ Myers and Jeffrey Simmons
• Does God Not Exist? - Debate between Dan Barker and Richard Carrier vs. Hassanain Rajabali and Michael Corey
• Scott Atran vs. Sam Harris - Monday, November 6th, 2006 at Beyond Belief '06 - After Susan Neiman's lecture, Scott Atran challenges the integrity of the presentations so far. Sam Harris responds later in the day after Elizabeth Loftus speaks.
• Christopher Hitchens vs. Alister McGrath -- On the topic, "Poison or Cure? Religious belief in a modern world."
• William Lane Craig vs Domonic Crossan The historicity of Jesus
• William Lane Craig vs Frank Zindler Atheism Vs Christianity
• Richard Dawkins vs Alister McGrath The God Delusion
• Does God exist? - Formal debate between Dr. William Lane Craig (theist) and Dr. John Shook (atheist)
• Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox The famous debate between the infomous Richard Dawkins and John Lennox, professor in mathematics also from Oxford university
• Dr Gary Habermas Vs Kenneth Humphreys Did Jesus rise from the dead?
• Christopher Hitchens Vs Frank Turek Does God exist?
• Richard Carrier Vs William Lane Craig Did Jesus rise from the dead?
• D'Souza Vs John LoftusDoes the Christian God exist?

Informal Debates

• Dan Barker vs. Jason Gastrich - One of Pile's personal favorite "debates" - a discussion between former fundamentalist minister, Dan Barker, and creationist Jason Gastrich (who runs a web site attempting to discredit the Skeptics Annotated Bible)
• Laura Ingraham v Brian Sapient - Brian appeared on Laura Ingraham's show and was attacked and muted; the original show along with the RRS commentary afterwards is here.
• Christopher Hitchens vs Dennis Prager Does religion poison everything?
• Bart Ehrman Vs Peter Williams Can we trust the Bible when we don't have the original manuscripts?

Debate Resources

• Top 10 atheist conversation killers - If you are a theist and you want to talk with an atheist, there are few points that you might want to avoid to prolong the life and productivity of a debate.

• Arguments Against Existence Of God Some arguments against the existence of God that are very effective on religious minds.