Atheism is based on ignorance

" i will start by saying that atheism is a negative claim. The burden of proof is on Christians to prove that their positive claim is valid by using evidence."the debate is focused on whether or not it is based on ignorance, so you cannot shift the burden of proof. you commit the fallacy of argument from ignorance in which you take the position that it's false simply because you lack knowledge of it being true.Rebuttals : 1. My first link shows how science is confirming the Bible. Your claim that science does not back up the Bible is wrong. 2. I agree, however you fail to include all beliefs such as these regardless of whether not they're religious. the Bible teaches against what groups like the Westboro Baptist preach, so bringing that up isn't relevant. 3. You seem to accuse the Bible of supporting the death of gays and sacrifices of babies when 1.Jesus became the atonement for mankind's sins, thus abolishing the biblical death penalty 2.God punishes evil doers so that they'd turn fromsin and repent (Ezk. 18:23) 3.you brought no evidence to support that God supports killing babies. These are typical tactics done by Bible critics without fully examining the context. My opponent commits the fallacy of chronological snobbery. It's common for people to claim that the Bible has morals which are obsolete, but I will give evidence for why this is completely false. I will begin by addressing the fundamental morals of the Bible: Love - According to wiki, love is " a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection as well as Ã‚Â"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another.It brings positive emotions, fights stress, conflict, pain, heal, and exclude negativity. It helps you live longer and fights diseases (1).Compassion - stimulates our pleasure centers, makes us happier to give than to receive, makes us attractive, uplifts those around you, influences others, improves health, help depression, and benefits society (2). Lying - causes stress and harms the body (3). The rest of the 10 commandments are also detrimental to your place in society. I can list more, but for now, these "old morals" are what you use and it's what benefits humanity to this day. On to counter arguments:1. I will explain why some of the claims of the Site you gave are false in relation to the Scriptures being discussed.The site claims that God will never curse the earth in Gen. 8:21, but in Malachi 4:16, he says "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." the curse in Gen. 8:21 in Hebrew is qalal meaning to be abated in water while in Malachi, it's cherem which means accursed and prepared for destruction. Two different ideas are being conveyed, no contradiction.Next is the claim that God creates evil (Isa 45:7) but in pm. 5:4, evil does not dwell near him. Isa. 45:5-7 is speaking of natural disasters, not moral evil ."I am the Lord, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; 6That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, 7The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these."Ps. 5:4 is speaking of moral evil The site claims that homosexuality should be punished according to Lev. 20:13 and points to 1 kings 15:11-12 saying that the king sent the prostitutes away. If you read 1 Kings 15:11-15, you'll see that the Law did not apply to these temple prostitutes, thus punishment is to be given to those beloning only to Israel.! Kings 15:11-15 "11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done. 12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made. 13 He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14 Although he did not removethe high places, Asa’s heart was fully committed to the Lord all his life. 15 He brought into the temple of theLord the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated"2. I'm saying that you cannot use logic alone to show a contradiction in God's moral code as ancient cultures and languages work far differently than ours. For example, God did not kill all humans (Noah and his family and others could have been spared)3. for time purposes, I will only quote experts who say the Bible is very factual.The Smithsonian department of Anthropology states: "Much of the Bible, in particular the historical books of the old testament, are as accurate historical documents as any that we have from antiquity and are in fact more accurate than many of the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, or Greek histories. These Biblical records can be and are used as are other ancient documents in archeological work. For the most part, historical events described took place and the peoples cited really existed. This is not to say that names of all peoples and places mentioned can be identified today, or that every event as reported in the historical books happened exactly as stated.” (you can write the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington DC for the full text.) - See more at: http://amazingbibletimeline.com...;Millar Burrows, an arhcaeologist writes: "...Archeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the scriptural record. More than one archeologist has found respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation in Palestine" (4)Your claim that the Bible is not factual is false. 4. it's not circular reasoning because I'm not trying to prove the Bible is correct by using the Bible, im showing you how your understanding of God is incorrect by examining the axioms in the Bible.you have given no logical arguments against God's existence in this debate.5. No I haven't looked at every religion, but based on experience, I know that the Christian God exist . I think you commit the fallacy of strawman. Just because most Christians indoctrinate, doesn't mean all do. My opponent uses that logic on Christianit , not applying it to Atheism as it as also capable of indoctrination. On top of that, not all religions have the same truth value. It ceases to be the burden of proof on the part of human, but on the deities or "divine/universal" truth to demonstrate in some way, shape, or form that they are the "truth." To address your arguments : 1. Not all Christians claim to have evidence for God, I don't take that approach thus I don't have the burden of proof as explained. 2. Not all atheists attack the Bible, but this debate is addressing the ones who do. 3. Atheism is simply the lack of belief in God, there is no strict definition of what an atheist believes, thus your claim seems to be an over generalization.Sources: 1. http://psychcentral.com...2. http://www.emmaseppala.com...3. http://lifehacker.com...4. Millar Burrows, What Mean These Stones, 1941, p 1