God Exists.

I also appreciate your quick and organized response. Your arguments can be summarized as so:1. God Exists in human minds through verbal communication that is modified as it is passed down.2. The Criterion of Plausibility demonstrates that God cannot exist because there is no reason or evidence to back up the claim.3. (On challenge of the Bible) There is no historic evidence to back up the forced registering of the census in ancestral towns. 4. God cannot exist because there is no way for us to measure His intelligence. Again, I thank my opponent for a logical and reasonable argument. Counter Argument1. I agree with you. God does exist in our mind. However, I disagree with you on the modification being incorporated. I believe in Biblical Christianity, therefore, I believe in the same idea Biblicaly preserved idea of God. 2. I attempt to disband the criterion of plausibility. Allow me to show you where I stand: We exist, according to atheists there is no reason or motivational force behind the initiation of our creation. I find the criterion of plausibility to be not quite applicable to this topic because the motivation of God is not supposed to be known, but on the other hand I feel that Gods existence does fit the criterion: The God hypothesis is more plausible than any other. Evolution is the only alternative to God but Evolution still leaves out important questions such as why and how. The God hypothesis answers these questions.3. There is historic evidence to support this Biblical claim, but in order to understand this there are clarifications to be made: a. The translation of the Bible you used is NRSV. I do not accept or use any other translation besides The King James Version, as it is the first complete translation of the entire Bible from Greek/Hebrew to English. It also has been authorized by over 186,000 Biblical scholars. I also personally use the original Greek/Hebrew manuscripts. The King James version of the Bible refers to the "registering" as a tax related pilgrimage. b. This does fit history as Augustus issued. But what of the census that Luke 2:1 speaks of? Is there any record outside of the Bible that Augustus ever issued such a decree? Yes. As a matter of fact he authorized three censuses during this reign. How do we know this? The three censuses are listed in the Acts of Augustus, a list of what Augustus thought were the 35 greatest achievements of his reign. He was so proud of the censuses that he ranked them eighth on the list. The Acts of Augustus were placed on two bronze plaques outside of Augustus's mausoleum after he died. Because your attempt at proving the Bible was a fallacy, and was based partly on a translational error, I will not allow you to propose any more attacks on the Bible. 4. God does exist because we can see His intelligence. We see His intelligence through the complexity of all creation. We have the cell, a very complex being in itself. It seems illogical that a random chance held enough order to create such an organized bit of matter. Presentational CounterviewBecause I am old school, I will be using the "presentational counterview" application within this debate. PCV is an argumentative step used when the Pro/Con applies a theoretical principal to the opening of an argument so long as that argument is based on the existence of______. It gives the "Y" counterpart the option to provide an argument for the "Z" counterpart even if the burden of proof is on the "Z" counterpart and the "Y" counterpart is assumed. I hope you do not mind. The argument I will present to support the existence of God will be presented after your final rebuttal of my counter argument at the end of round 2. Therefore, you will respond to this rebuttal at the end of round 2, and I will present my argument in round 3. I look forward to my opponents response. Good Luck.