No. 41 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Christian apologist, CrossExamined.org
Frank Turek is a Christian apologist and the founder of CrossExamined.org.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Frank Turek's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Debated Christopher Hitchens twice, at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008 and the College of New Jersey in 2009, and takes questions from skeptics on campus tours.
Turek co-wrote I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist with Norman Geisler, and wrote Stealing from God.
He hosts the CrossExamined call-in show on American Family Radio and a television show on the NRB Network.
On the record
2009
March 31, 2009
Formal debate
Against Christopher Hitchens · The College of New Jersey
The rematch, six months after their first debate.
2008
September 9, 2008
Formal debate
Against Christopher Hitchens · Virginia Commonwealth University
About 500 people filled the student commons ballroom for Turek's first debate with the author of God Is Not Great.
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