(Pro) Atheistic evolution vs Christian creationism (con)

Stupidape: “ A belief by its very nature is irrational” Do you believe this statement? If you do, you would be irrational too as the statement itself claims that beliefs are irrational – a circular argument. These types of statements are often used as a clever ploy to discredit or make the belief in God look foolish or nonsensical when often the statements themselves are nonsensical. Stupidape: “This is a long winded way of stating that religious faith is an irrational conspiracy theory and thus, my opponent has stated an oxymoron.” I'm not exactly sure what the point was here but let's say for a moment that faith in Jesus Christ is a conspiracy theory and someone believes in Him, what is the worst that could happen to them? Christ's burden is light and as many have realised, living according to His guidelines improves life on earth. If someone dies after having accepted Christ, they get saved and go to heaven. Off coarse, we have autonomy and can make our own decisions so no one is forced into believing in Him. Stupidape: “I contest that this evidence is reasonable. The multi-verse theory can explain how the universe began. Coming from another universe. Also, the Bible does state God, but is that answer correct? There is no way to observe God or test God or falsify the God hypothesis. How did God come into existence any how?” Do you contest to the idea that the most fundamental known laws of physics gives reasonable evidence? And substitute a theory of multiple universes which cannot be seen by us even with instruments, or tested in any way, or proven in any way since it lives in other dimensions and does not conform to our laws of physics? Stupidape: "And in some of these bubble universes, the laws of physics and fundamental constants might be different than in ours, making some universes strange places indeed." Again, there is absolutely no proof of this at all since we cannot see, test these hypotheses, or sense these universes as they would not conform to our laws of physics and are not detectable by us. Stupidape: “Next, at the beginning of the universe the law of thermodynamics might not be applicable.” This is purely speculation as we have no way of testing this. It would be against our fundamental understanding of physicals. Stupidape: "The big bang is an attempt to explain how the universe developed from a very tiny, dense state into what it is today." From the same article you referenced: “Eventually, you can't make any scientific theories about what is happening, because science itself doesn't apply” So this theory is not scientific after all. I thought evolutionists are basing everything on science? Apparently not. Stupidape: “Again, multi-verse theory.” How did the multi universes cause themselves into existence? This is simply moving the initial cause to some other universe that, in turn also needed a cause to exist. Stupidape: “There are 1001 Bible contradictions. There is no evidence for Noah's flood. Jonah surviving three days and three nights within the belly of a great fish seems very improbable. Then, there is the issue of translations, mistranslations, and forgeries...” Regarding the claimed 1001 contractions in the Bible from your link, it took me 10 minutes to see that the first 4 aren't contradictions, I don't have much confidence in the rest, I did not cherry pick either as I just took the first 4 in order. Obviously I won't have time to go through all 1001.1: Regarding the passages used in this “contradiction”; they are from non-biblical origin – the book of Wisdom. "Protestant churches generally consider it to be non-canonical (apocryphal), and thus not Biblical "scripture"" [1] 2: Elohim and Jehovah is one and the same. The Lord and God is the same. No contradiction 3: Again, God is the same as Jesus Christ is the same as The Lord. They are one and the same God. The Bible clearly teaches this. 4: “Heaven was reserved, planned, and prepared in the mind of God when the earth was created. The divisions of heaven and earth were established at that time. In John, Christ specifically references mansions WITHIN heaven that He is even now preparing specifically for each of His followers. “ If you read the verses in context, it makes sense that it isn't a contradiction [2]. Also, there are many clarifications available to refute the claimed contradictions, this one seems to be directed to the 1001 you are referring to: [3]. Some claim that the gospels contain contradictions as well and they point to insignificant things such as word order, but this only affirms the truth that the gospels were indeed different accounts written by different people, if they were exactly the same in every respect, it would show that the one copied from the other. See: the startling evidence for Noah's flood [4] Stupidape: Then the “issue of translations, mistranslations and forgeries”. Problems here are very quickly discovered and dismissed as they do not conform to the many thousands of manuscripts available. To get some idea of what is available: “There are over 6,000 early manuscript copies or portions of the Greek New Testament in existence today. When we include the Latin Vulgate and other early versions, we have over 24,000 early copies or portions of the New Testament (twice that many when including quotes by early church fathers). Some of these date only twenty to thirty years from the original autographs. By comparison, of works by Plato and Aristotle very few copies exist at all, and those were written 1,200 to 1,400 years after the autographs” [5] Stupidape: “Sexual reproductions occurs in a large percentage of single celled organisms.” Single celled organisms are genderless so they do not do much, if anything to attempt to explain how two different sexes supposedly evolved alongside each other. Stupidape: “Now lets reduce further, an arm and wrist without a hand. That would still be purposeful. Could be used to hold down a tree branch while the other hand picks fruit. Even half an arm could be used, and so forth.” This is missing the point. Half an arm would be immediately useful to the owner of the arm, whereas empty tubes and glands with seemingly no purpose do not. Half an arm would not be of any apparent danger to the owner of the arm whereas toxins that could leak out of half formed tubes and glands, would be deadly to the spider. Stupidape: “The ducts could be use to transport other substances than the poison. Most likely the poison developed last. Another explanation is the gland was a gill or sorts, to help the spider breathe under water. Often, it is difficult to isolate the exact transitional purpose,” Which other substances could that be? It would be a pretty weird gill ending exactly at the spider's fangs. Stupidape: “...but rest assure, natural selection would force the half formed system to have a use.” Can you logically think of any use other than it's fully formed version? Thank you for this debate. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org... 2: http://www.godsholyspirit.com... 3: http://www.tektonics.org... 4: http://creation.com... 5: http://www.provethebible.net...