God exists

I am honestly not sure of the religion of my opponent, so I will presume Christianity. If this is wrong, just adjust biblical examples to examples from the Koran or such. I will be running three contentions; the argument from divine hiddenness, the argument from poor design, and the problem of evil. Argument from Divine Hiddenness If God wishes to have a relationship with us, is safe to assume to everyone who wishes/wished to have a relationship with him would have it. This is not the case. It would seem God is playing favorites by revealing himself with undeniable proof to some, but not others. Saul got a Damascus Road experience where he got to meet God personally. Moses talked to God face to face. Hell, Joseph got to wrestle with God for Christ’s sake (admittedly, this would be an awesome cage match). Why isn’t this supposed fact of God’s existence known by everyone? In relationships, people don’t typically argue about the person’s existence. Some have attempted to absolve this problem, by saying that if God revealed himself to everyone, there would be no free will in the matter and no need for faith. First off, why is faith important? Faith, as used in religion, can be used to defend anything, since it doesn’t require proof. No hypothesis worth consideration in science is proven on faith, rather evidence. Do scientists gather on Sunday, singing “Yes I know the Higgs Boson is real. Yes I know in my heart in Higgs Boson is real. I will have faith. Amen.” If they did such a thing, you would think they would be rather insecure on the concept. Second off, free will doesn’t explain this problem away. God could still give absolute proof to everyone, and people could still reject him. Lucifer had absolute proof of God's existence but still ended up rejecting him. Third, the very existence of free will is argued about in philosophy, it isn't a given premise. Argument From Poor Design There are roughly 2 trillion galaxies in our visible universe, and as found by Edwin Hubble, are all rapidly moving away from each other, ever since the Big Bang. They aren’t slowing down, in fact they are speeding up, due to acceleration from dark energy. In some time there will Everything will be so far away, the light from distant stars and galaxies could never reach them due to the expansion of the universe being faster than the speed of light. Once the rate of expansion is large enough, galaxies, stars, planets, and matter (potentially even the subatomic building blocks that comprise all matter) can no longer hold themselves together, at which point they rip apart. Sadly this isn’t the only model for the death of the universe. If not a Big Rip, there are potential models of a Big Freeze, a Big Crunch, and a Big Slurp to destroy everything. Of course, even before this, the Andromeda Galaxy collides with the Milky Way, and our sun turns into a red giant, and a red dwarf, burning our planet into a crisp. Take our little planet, with every other rock in our solar system either being too hot or too cold, as is most of our planet. Our very existence is on a knife’s edge, ready to topple over. When we still lived on the African Savannah, it’s been estimated that we as a species were down to a few thousand members due to climatic change. We nearly did join the fate of the 99.9% of all species who have ever lived, and become extinct. This is some design. By some estimates, humanity has been around for 200,000 years. So for 200,000 years, humanity is born, a great deal of it dieing childbirth, infant mortality extraordinary, being killed by microorganisms that we didn’t know even existed, by earthquakes we thought to be portends, storms that we didn’t know came from our climate system, and of course man made atrocities. For about at least 190,000 years, this nonsense goes on, till Heaven decides to finally intervene. One must say, if there is a divine designer, this is one hell of an intelligent design. If one wishes to thank the divine for his wonderful fine tuning as my opponent so wishes, they must accept all the other implications. Problem of Evil The problem of evil has been covered by everyone from Epicurus to Mamomides to Lex Luthor. As a corollary to this, I don't think I need to explain it syllogistically to such a sophisticated debater as my opponent. Either way, the argument has proposed that there is a contradiction between the existence of evil or an excessive amount, and an omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipotent (OOO) deity. The problem has been described by some to be the Achilles heel of theology. Various theodicies have been proposed such as free will and divine retribution. Of course, these theodicies could be used to support an omnimalevolent, omnipotent, omniscient deity (OD) as well. Why is there good? OD wants man to freely choose evil rather than good. It is all part of his perfect plan. Good will be punished in the afterlife, and all evil beings can live forever in paradise. OD works in mysterious ways(or if you prefer, delirious). Maybe this is the best of all possible worlds? Whatever theodicies a theologian conjures can not only be used for an OOO deity, but an OD as well.Sources:http://io9.gizmodo.com...https://curiosity.com...