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The Burden of Proof lies on the theist to prove that God exists. Therefore, I will use this round to refute my opponent's claims and prevent them from meeting their burden.== REBUTTALS == My opponent's first paragraph predominately refers to the likelihood of our planet being the right distance from the sun for life to 'flourish'. So I will respond to this The argument from fine-tuning goes roughly like this: The Universe is perfectly fine-tuned to allow life to come into being. The distance of the Earth from the Sun, the substance and depth of the atmosphere, the orbit of the Moon, the nature of matter and energy, the very laws of physics themselves... all are perfectly tuned to let life happen. If any of them had been different by even a small amount, there could not have been life on Earth. And the odds against this fine-tuning are astronomical. Therefore, the Universe, and all these details about it, must have been created this way on purpose. And the only imaginable being that could have created the universe and fine-tuned it for life is God.Okay. We have some serious misunderstandings here.The Perfectly Fine-Tuned Puddle HoleLet's assume, for the moment, that the Universe really is perfectly set up for life, and human life at that. I don't think that for a second -- I'll get to that in a bit -- but for the sake of argument, let's assume that it's true.Does that imply the Universe was created that way on purpose?No. It absolutely does not.Here's an analogy. I just rolled a die 10 times (that's a six-sided die, all you D&D freaks), and got the sequence 3241154645. The odds against that particular sequence coming up are astronomical. Over 60 million to one.Does that mean that this sequence was designed to come up?Or think of it this way. The odds against me, personally being born? They're beyond astronomical. The chances that, of my mom's hundreds of eggs and my dad's hundreds of millions of sperm, this particular sperm and egg happened to combine to make me? Ridiculously unlikely. Especially when you factor in the odds against my parents being born...and against their parents being born...and their parents, and theirs, and so on and so on and so on. The chances against me, personally, having been born are so vast, it's almost unimaginable.But does that mean I was destined to be born?Does that mean we need to concoct an entire philosophy and theology to explain The Improbability of Greta-ness?Or does it simply mean that I won the cosmic lottery? Does it simply mean that my existence is one of many wildly improbable outcomes of the universe... and if it hadn't happened, something else would have? Does it simply mean that some other kid would have been born to my parents instead... a kid whose existence would have been every bit as unlikely as mine?Yes, life on Earth is wildly improbable. And if it hadn't happened, some other weird chemical stew would have arisen on Earth, one that didn't turn into life. Or life would have developed, but it would have evolved into some form other than humanity. Or the Earth would never have formed around the Sun, but some other unlikely planet would have formed around some other star. (Maybe one with cool rings around it like Saturn, only Day-Glo orange with green stripes.) If life on Earth hadn't happened, something else equally improbable would have happened instead. We just wouldn't be here to wonder about it.Douglas Adams (of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame) put this extremely well in his renowned Puddle Analogy. He said: Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!"Yes, the hole fits us rather neatly. But that doesn't mean the hole was designed to have us in it. We evolved to fit in the hole that happened to be here. If the hole had been shaped differently, something else would have happened instead.Bible Extracts I do not see how Bible extracts prove that God exists. All it shows is that the Bible coincides with the Bible. We aren't discussing whether or not the Bible is true. We are discussing the existence of God. Intelligent Design Okay, my opponent has provided me with no source, and no examples of research teams and scientists who have admitted through scientific conjecture, that intelligent design is present. Nevertheless, despite this being an undermining fact, I will still refute this argument. Again, my opponent makes multiple references to the Bible but offers no evidence as to why I should trust or believe what the Bible has to offer. Again, my opponent makes jumps in his argument with no explanations. My opponent states that scientists admit that through scientific conjecture, it proves that intelligent design is present. My opponent fails to show how intelligent design is present.Sources in comments.