The Existence of God

Point by point, once more, shall we?"I strongly disagree..."Good, that's the point of the debate, though I think you're missing the other point, which is that it isn't just a "Yes," "No" argument. Also, you probably don't actually disagree 100%."Without God..." "You wouldnt be here..."You have yet to establish that, and repeating it won't make it true. I could say that "Without evolution, you wouldn't be here right now," and I would be able to back it up with volume and volumes of well-verified supportive documentation."If God wasn't real."If God wasn't real what? This is a fragment. It is an incomplete idea. You could win at the Incomplete Idea Bee, but this is not that."How do you think..."I don't actually know enough about cerebral biochemistry to tell you exactly how I think that we live our lives, but suffice it to say that I think we do so...very carefully."You atheist."There you go again! If you're trying to huff and puff to blow my house down, it isn't working. If you're trying to insult or discredit me by stating my religious affiliation in disjointed grammar, that isn't working either."The first recorded question..."Who is the Adversary? He sounds interesting--he who asks the first question in a work of literature is usually the culprit (if it's a mystery of detective novel). Either that or it's the character who gets killed first. I do like a good detective novel."His purpose was to..."Sounds to me more like his purpose was to ask a question. Personally, if I were to ask "Yea, hath God said...?" I would be asking, well, what God hath said."Today the same adversary..."Ooh, human agents. Okay, so now it sounds like you're describing some celestial 007 movie."In modern times..."This seems to me as no more than an excuse to not go to school."Every trade or profession..." "Doctors, lawyers, scientists and..."Okay, you've now totally lost me. Please explain every word you just said, especially the ones in these two sentences."After all, it is..."I don't know about you, but when I hear or read "Hypostatic" or "Hypostasis," if I don't know what it means, I just look it up in the dictionary, rather than being placed at a psychological disadvantage."The natural reaction is to just throw..."You must have some very peculiar natural reactions, because when I hear something that I don't recognize, my natural reaction is curiosity, not nausea..."Hence the phrase..."I don't believe I'm familiar with that phrase. How is it relevant to God's existence?"And yet..."I thought we'd talked about using the Bible as a source. It isn't reliable. Not at all. Sorry, very far away and no cigar."Do we believe..."Personally, when I read a book that talks about the supernatural, and all kinds of other things that are rationally implausible, I don't think "Well, it says it's true, so it must be true." If I did that, I would have founded the First Church of Iluvatar (based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien) long ago. Furthermore, your 'egg-spurts' study their subjects for decades, dedicate their lives to their work, and are usually fairly reliable. It's what happens, when one does not neglect one's education."There is a large..."Cool story bro."In the May..."Another cool story. Well, not super cool. More like mediocre bordering on excessively boring."Well, my..."You wrote a Bible? That's kind of neat."They go on..."Man, you are full of these mediocre-bordering-on-excessively-boring stories!"Read that again!"I read it again, still mediocre bordering on excessively boring."Are we to believe..."I don't really know what 'we' are to believe, but I personally don't believe the Church, as a corporate body of any religion, is particularly scholarly in any sense of the word. Also, I don't really see what problem you could have with that gibberish, since you seem to be doggedly defending the Bible."Under the subheading..."Well, actually, I don't really think of 'anthropomorphisms' as a 'jaw breaker,' and don't really have any trouble with it. If you have trouble understanding it, here is a good tool: http://dictionary.reference.com..."To which they..."There there, there's no reason to become overly emotional."Anything but..."Whatever you say, I personally kind of like literalism."Any literal descriptions..."This is helping your case in what ways, might I inquire?"They go on..."The story hasn't gotten any more cool. In fact, it has stopped bordering excessively boring, and jumped in headfirst."Who are we to believe?"I think we should believe the people that dedicate their entire lives to making observations, then making logical connections and such. And the ones that have moustaches, I'm a sucker for moustaches."What does the Bible say?"The Bible says that children who defy their elders are to be beaten to death, that the writer of Psalms had syphilis, and that women who wear pants are an abomination in the sight of God. I'm still not seeing a clearly defined point in your argument, and this is now Round 3. You make a cute preface, but hadn't you better start making a point soon?Since I'd like to let you catch up, you know, for a fighting chance, I think I'll write a haiku.My opponent isIfaust, a peculiarAnd rude, blue window.By the way, this is my favorite poem:Here lie I,Dionysius of Tarsus.Lived full sixty years and never married,Would that my father hadn't.I also like bananas, bananas are good.