God Is Not Real

Definitions: SNPs: Single nucleotide polymorphisms, frequently called SNPs (pronounced "snips"), are the most common type of genetic variation among people. Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide. My opponent says, "Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence." The cause of the existence of the universe is The Big Bang. The Bible states that God has always existed, so he never began to exist, which means he needs no creator. The problem with this argument is that there is absolutely no scientific evidence that supports this claim and using Bible verses to prove that God has always existed is ridiculous. Then my opponent states that, "Since the cause of the Universe has to be...Moral-the cause of the universe led to the existence of morality." The problem with this is that without a God, morality is subjective. Assuming a God does not exist, morals are a societal construct, or a set of ideas that most people agree on. The ideas are not bad ideas, but they are designed by humans. I do not deny the existence of Jesus, I only deny the existence of his miracles. You said that, "Jesus claimed to be God and his friends and his brothers claimed that he was God." Claiming to be an all-powerful, omnipotent being, and actually being an all-powerful, omnipotent being are very different things. You clearly agree with the quote from C.S. Lewis that you used. The quote states, "Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse." This is the mad, bad, or God argument. The problem is, it is possible to be wrong, without being a madman, and it is possible to lie, without being an evil person. Therefore, it is possible that Jesus was mad, bad, God, lying, or just wrong. There is some evidence of homosexuality being a genetic trait. Even though the "gay gene" has not been found yet, in a study of 409 pairs of gay brothers, it was found that every test subject shared the same five SNPs. The SNPs were clustered in the Xq28 region of the X chromosome and in the 8q12 region of chromosome 8. (http://www.the-scientist.com...-/) There were approximately 3 million Polish Christians executed in Nazi concentration camps. These Christians could have prayed to God all day, but their deaths were part of God's plan, and the prayers did not affect anything. The recurrent laryngeal nerve takes the same route in humans. I used the example of the giraffe because I felt that the length of the giraffe's neck emphasized my point. In fish, the same nerve travels from the brain, past the heart, and attaches to the gills of the fish. As evolution progressed, the neck extended and the heart lowered, and the nerve was caught on the wrong side of the heart. Evolution is incompatible with Christianity. If the Bible is to be taken literally, and nowhere in the Bible does it claim to be a series of figurative stories, life began 6000 years ago and everything was intelligently designed. Evolution is the idea that life has evolved over millions of years, slowly becoming more and more advanced, and changing due to unintelligent genetic mutations. These ideas directly contradict each other. The definition of scientific theory is: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that is acquired through the scientific method and repeatedly tested and confirmed through observation and experimentation. In science, if an idea was originally proposed as a theory, it can never become a law, even if it is proven. The idea that that some diseases are caused by microorganisms is still called The Germ Theory, even though we can see physically see germs under microscopes and The Germ Theory has been proven. I would like to point out that evolution has been observed. In a study that has been ongoing for 27 years, scientists have observed the evolution of E. coli bacteria. The researchers found that after 20 000 generations the surviving cells had 45 mutations that gave them an evolutionary advantage, as the Theory of Evolution predicts. (https://www.sciencedaily.com...) As for those three bare assertions I left at the end, I was hoping you would attempt to answer those questions. As it stands, it is clear that there is no scientific evidence of God, only faith in God.