The Following Arguments for the Existence of God are Valid.

~Counterarguments~ 1. Historical proof --> My opponent's main contention is that Jesus performed miracles, with hundreds of people as witnesses. They wouldn't have lied all so conveniently. However, this "argument from fanaticism" ,if you will, fails. In modern history, we have many examples of people who believed in the divinity of some other individual, and went to extremes. Heaven's Gate: Coinciding with the appearance with the Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997, 38 followers committed suicide as was instructed by their two leaders, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. The members were actually convinced of the supposed divinity of the leaders, and genuinely beleived that an alien ship was behind the Comet. They believed if they committed suicide, they would aboard the alien ship. Even the leaders themselves beleived in this group delusion. Do we believe that the cult was correct in their belief? Of course not, we would call them irrational fanatics. Sathya Sai Baba: With around 6 million followers, and being a self-professed "Godman", Sathya Sai Baba is STILL living to this day. His followers have accounted his miracles that include: levitation, bilocation, physical disappearances, changing granite into sugar candy, changing water into another drink, changing water into gasoline, producing objects on demand, changing the color of his gown into a different color while wearing it, multiplying food, healings, visions, dreams, making different fruits appear on any tree hanging from actual stems, controlling the weather, physically transforming into various deities and physically emitting brilliant light. [1] Do you honestly believe he is capable of this, simply because millions of people believe in him? --> There is absolutely no proof of the Israelite entering Egypt as slaves. 600,000 fighting men, equivalent to 2.5 million men, women and children, or two thirds of the Egyptian population at the time, would be a massive and noteworthy thing to take down, especially when the Egyptians are noted to be meticulous in their records. [1] The life expectancy according to the bible of the Israelite would be around 130 years, while historically for the Egyptians it would be 50 years. Yet no records of this, even when the Egyptians were noted for wanting to know the secret to eternal youth. --> Your other accounts of the miracles of Moses and such are unwarranted claims, as is the other ones you have made. Simply because the Bible says it was so, doesn't mean anything. You should very know how the process of historians work. You need other sources, primary sources at least. Until then, it's a circular argument to say that the Bible is divine because in it were divine miracles. 2. Fine-Tuning --> There is simply too many examples you gave, and tediously refuting each one won't be possible since I have character limits restricting me. However, there is one flaw amongst everything you have stated in this argument. Granted that the earth is fine-tuned, it does not identify the creator, nor does it identify if the creator is divine. It may very well be aliens from a superior civilization who made us; or a god of some other religion. ~Conclusion~ Your arguments fail in foundational reasons. The first argument is at most a circular one, and the argument from fanatics fails when shown that stuff like this always happens. The second argument is a gigantic false dichotomy and argument from ignorance. Just because we don't know fully how the atmosphere evolved (though we do we have plausible scenarios) it doesn't warrant a god. And even so, you fail to reason why it must be either natural means, or Jesus Christ and not some other cause, like an alien or Allah. ---References--- 1. http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. http://www.jesusneverexisted.com...