Does God exist?
Christopher Hitchens vs William Lane Craig — Does God Exist? (Biola, 2009)
A formal academic debate at Biola University. Craig opens with five arguments for God's existence; Hitchens responds with the moral case against divine command and the empirical case against revelation.
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It wasChristopher Hitchens.
Hitchens decisively wins on the substance: every one of his core claims (C5–C8, C10, C12) survives, while three of Craig's five arguments (C2, C3, C4) are refuted by the end of the exchange. The deciding moves are X2 (the moral argument collapses into a definitional circle) and X3 (the resurrection appeal reduces to consensus-among-believers). Craig was the more disciplined debater on a couple of exchanges and his rhetorical command was high — but discipline cannot rescue arguments that beg the question.
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