God Does Not Exist

I accept the structure that my opponent proposed, and I would like to apologize for neglecting to provide one. Arguments: The Incompatibility of Religion and Science: Christianity and Evolution are incompatible. The Bible claims that God designed, and created life, in his own image. (although this contradicts your definition, as the definition states that he has no body parts of his own to model us on) Evolution states that simple organic molecules formed, and they evolved from there. Evolution makes a much more convincing explanation for why we are here. If God had designed the eye, it would only be a symbol of his absolute incompetence. The "design" of the human eye is exceptionally flawed. The human eye is built upside-down and backwards. Light must travel through the cornea, the blood vessels in the eye, the amacrine cells, the ganglion cells, and the horizontal cells to reach the light sensitive cells. Humans are the most advanced animals on planet Earth, but our eyes are less effective than the eyes of some comparatively lowly birds. For example, the osprey bird's eyes are a calculated 60 times more powerful than our own. No intelligent God, who clearly favors humans above all other animals, would give the superior eyes to the inferior animal. This conundrum can be explained through evolution: "In the beginning," through random mutations, a simple eye-spot with some light-sensitive cells that informed the organism about sources of light was formed. The organism(s) with this attribute would have had a clear advantage, and it would be much less likely that these organisms would die before they could reproduce, and pass on this attribute. Then it mutated into a recessed eye-spot, where the outward-facing part of the eye recessed, providing the organism with the direction the light is coming from, and then into a deeply recessed eye-spot that did the same thing, but more effectively. The eye then evolved into a pinhole camera eye that could focus an image on a layer of light-sensitive cells, then into a pinhole lens eye that could focus an image, and finally into a complex eye, like the ones found in modern humans and other modern mammals. Each of these types of eyes currently exist on other organisms.(http://www.pbs.org...) Some religious people accept evolution, but the literal interpretation of the creation of humans by God must be accepted, if the rest of the Bible is to be believed. Without Adam and Eve, "original sin" could not have happened, and the entire Bible relies on the concept of "original sin." The Contradictory Nature of a Traditionally Defined God: The definition of God you provided states that He is omnipotent, or "[11] almighty." Omnipotence is contradictory"and an objective thing, like God, cannot contradict itself. This argument goes: "Could God create a stone so heavy he could not lift it?" If yes: God's power is limited, because He could not lift the stone. If no: God's power is limited, because He could not create the stone. Either way, the omnipotent being has proven not to be omnipotent due to the logical contradiction in each example. Your definition states that god is omniscient, or "[33] His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature." An omniscient God who gives his creations free will cannot exist. If I decide to eat an entire pizza on my own, and God knew that I would eat an entire pizza by myself before it happened, that does not necessarily mean that he caused me to eat it. The problem with this is that if God is all-knowing, He cannot be wrong"if God knew I would eat the pizza, there would be no way that I could decide to not eat it, because if I did, I would prove God wrong. The "I don't have a name for this argument, but I like it" Argument: If there is a cause of the universe, that cause must exist outside of the universe. Assuming this cause is a being, this being must be timeless, because as far as we are aware, time only exists within the universe. Thinking and doing require change, and change requires the passage of time. There is no passage of time outside of the universe. A timeless being, that exists outside of the universe, that can think or do anything, is a self-contradictory idea. Time began at the same time as the universe did, so there was no point in time when the universe did not exist, as time and the universe came into existence at the same moment. The universe has technically always existed, or has existed at every possible point in time. (The word "always" is not defined as an infinite amount of time, the word only applies within the confines of time) If there was no point in time where the universe did not exist, then there was also not interval of time where it could have been caused, or created. If something is as old as time itself, like the universe, it has always existed, and therefore needs no cause, or creator.