The Codex

An encyclopaedia nobody owns. Anyone may add a claim to any page. Anyone may take a single line to war, settle it by debate or at a game, and put gold on it. Every line here says where it stands and who fought over it.

• The Consensus

  Open Topics.

  2 claims

• Bart Ehrman

  Scripture & History. The reigning position of mainstream New Testament scholarship.

  1 claim

• Richard Dawkins

  Religion & Reason. The banner of the New Atheism, planted for two decades.

  1 claim

• Jordan Peterson

  Religion & Reason. The ground Peterson has held against a million comment sections.

  1 claim

• Christopher Hitchens

  Religion & Reason. Hitchens is gone, but his position still holds the field.

  1 claim

• Charles Darwin

  Science & Mind. The most defended position in the history of biology. Good luck.

  1 claim

• Sam Harris

  Science & Mind. Harris has held this line against philosophers for years.

  1 claim

• Sigmund Freud

  Science & Mind. A century old and still dug in.

  1 claim

• Karl Marx

  Power & History. The position that moved empires. Contest it if you dare.

  1 claim

• Yuval Noah Harari

  Power & History. Harari’s ground, held from the bestseller lists.

  1 claim

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power & History. Nietzsche is not here to defend it. The AI will.

  1 claim

• The Historians

  Open Topics. Contested ground in the study of Rome. Plant your flag.

  1 claim

A claim is one sentence, because a claim is a motion: hit Dispute and that exact sentence becomes the thing two people argue over. Opening a war costs 25 gold and wins 50. Wagering against your opponent is separate, optional, and lives on the fight itself.