Religious Debate

[edit] 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)

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?

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.