BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
Actions by a god would have been detected by science by now.

It is alleged and commonly accepted that gods interact with the realm, being the physical universe, that we humans exist in. Can you please provide evidence for your claims. I suggest that this is not so, because science has advanced to the level, where any such interaction would be immediately noticed by the machines and knowledge of scienceEvidence has not been put forth. Science can now detect any changes in this reality, and to a greater degree detect the location of the cause of these changes, which today has shown that these causes are all within this reality and are knowable by science. Proof? In short form, there is nothing that science has found that science can not know. You haven't elaborated on this assertion. The result of this is that an action by a god from outside this reality onto something within this reality that causes a change to the thing in this reality will be detected by science.This contention is irrelavent given that you haven't elaborate on your previous claims. A gods action can not affect in this realm while staying hidden from this realm. Proof? This means that as no effect has been detected, the existence of gods has been shown not to exist or to be irrelevant to this realm.I'm sorry but it appears that the BOP has been misplaced.
Actions by a god would have been detected by science by now.

It is alleged and commonly accepted that gods interact with the realm, being the physical universe, that we humans exist in. I suggest that this is not so, because science has advanced to the level, where any such interaction would be immediately noticed by the machines and knowledge of science. Science can now detect any changes in this reality, and to a greater degree detect the location of the cause of these changes, which today has shown that these causes are all within this reality and are knowable by science. In short form, there is nothing that science has found that science can not know. The result of this is that an action by a god from outside this reality onto something within this reality that causes a change to the thing in this reality will be detected by science. A gods action can not affect in this realm while staying hidden from this realm. This means that as no effect has been detected, the existence of gods has been shown not to exist or to be irrelevant to this realm.
Religious Rap Battle

gonna get this party started wake me, c'mon and wake me up now want to cut off my strings and break, loose of your control of me, cut your strings and be free with me, wake, and wake me up now, I want to cut off my strings and break, loose of your control of me, cut your strings and be free with me everybody, shake your body, lift your hands, stop frontin, you're just a puppet, to all the marionettes if your gonna run, how fast ya gonna run?, and If your gonna jump, how high can you jump? all you perpetrators be walkin round frontin, what?,you fakers afraid to stand for somethin? ya wanna make it outta sight?, somebody wanna get loud tonight? we can hit that, flip that, settle the score, an ain't nobody rock a crowd like this before, ya wanna make it outta sight?, somebody wanna get loud tonight? like an earthquake, let it shake, make the floor vibrate, Christ y'all, back to set the record straight.
Religious Rap Battle

Can I say one thing before I start this up, your spelling is attrocious, just spilling the cup Jesus's last drink comes from a gold cup, well geez, you think people right now are stuck up with greed? And how about all the people on the streets right now, While God's soaking them like sponges while he's in the shower? Does he care about them, I bet if he did they would all be living and eating like kings! If you like him so much, why don't you join in his game? If you want to meet him, I think I'll help you, BANG, BANG! And now you see kid, there's no Heaven or Hell, just some mixed up world where you can't even tell what time it is, and people will always be right there hunting your ghost down until you give them a scare! And you wonder why places are so haunted? Because of people were like you, all they ever wanted, was to meet the almighty, and they payed the ultimate price, Even if he was real, suicides Sin and Vice! So stop worrying about up, and how to get in good with Him, because once your gone, your gone, there's no other kin for you to meet, not God, no Jesus, no anybody just some cracked out world, but of course, everybody still believes in it, well, I think it's Bull and im not excusing my French, because there's nothing to pull me under, no rope, no pitchfork, im free and until you see that, happy living in glee of having a crappy life, just because you think if you pray, you'll be happy as can be when you've gone another way. So long compadre, I'll see you in the next round, while you'll be eaten by Satan's imaginary Hellhound!
Religious Rap Battle

you think that you the only one that got to suffer?? you think that you the only one with pain to suffer?? everybody got a thing they gotta suffer. rich or poor don't matter gotta suffer. rich man goes to the doctor gonna find out all the rich food he ate gonna make him die of gout woman's man is dead and gone - got no mo salary take her honey's van gogh to the art gallery she gotta try to find some other things that she can sell now she knows how it feels livin in single parent hell what about the woman ten kids in the ghetto-hood the rich woman understands her sister did the best she could getting kicked around prostitution smokin crack she had to work the streets makin money lyin on her back the two are now connected with all that they been through they seen the good that come from sufferin, they changed their point of view it's gonna come to me and it's gonna come to you everybody's got some sufferin they gotta go through some brothers think that they was born only to die ready to die willin to kill and crucify with the make believe fantasy violent life of a thug they didn't realize it was their own grave that they dug with vulgar intelligent rhymes they confuse on the same cd they wonder if God will excuse fascination guns clips and chicks i can't explain but I know they all be sufferin can't deal with the pain lookin back one brother wished he was killed as a baby they all trapped in a thug storm, it got em goin crazie some a y'all got gifts I give props for ya skill gotta chill, be still, knock off the thrill to kill too much talent, already been wasted i thank God for y'all, know you're appreciated i don't think the thug thing is cool I think the thug thing is cold check out what happened to the boy in the park he was just eight years old a thug drug dealer chasin down another thug brother ran into the park there was the boy with his mother for the sake of frontin bluntin presidential Benjamin greed the kid caught a stray in the face and started to bleed that saturday a tragic day a boy had to die what do you say to the mother when she come screamin why they entertain platinum violence kids get slain its insane 2-pac and Biggie and the boy it's a constant refrain pray to abstain from the lie, sustain the truth we got to come together y'all we loosin mad youth pain is a part of life its somethin we all feel give your time and your money to the needy. keep it real sufferin is like a good thief it gives no warnin let's stop playin the game, fa real, God is callin
Religious Rap Battle

Worshiping someone up above, why even bother, when that man doesn't help you,nor your forefathers? Iv'e tried praying, when I lived in a world of dirt, but he just watched me up from above with a smirk. And you may say, "the Prophets of all religions are nice, can't you see"? But looks can be decieving, so let's have a look, well I'll be:... Jesus, crucified for fear of an upstand, while he rose to heaven, the murderes were now d*mned, Apparently, Moses's people could only get free as can be, with the murder of innocents with the Parting of the Red Sea, Muhammad, visited by angel, full of superstition, massacred and took over a city for sake of religion. And the god d*mn Crusades, led by a pope Murdered innocent lives and crushed Turkish hope. So now you see through the eyes of an Atheist, and how religion is only a ride through the hastiest, one more word before my opponent sheds some more religion skin, have you ever heard of someone named Charles Darwin?
Religious Rap Battle

we be rockin the territory in this rap game, an Christ blessed us with the octane, the same name, who created the world in seven days, will change ya life, you"d be amazed, i just wanna make jams, to pack da clubs n stadiums, with people of all types, while makin da crowd hype, i got Christ in me, for the life of me, stand truly thankful for the sites I see, an sparks be ignitin, the minute we start writin, God placed me in this fightin, to speak an to enlighten, and I"m just that type-a, lyrical rhyme sniper, never a street fighter, but down for gettin hyper, im a beat junkie brother, known by the emcee"s, for rippin thru tracks like epidemic disease, and shout to J.C. cuz he reigns supreme, an party people out there know what I mean.
Religious Rap Battle

I will be rapping as an Atheist. My opponent will be rapping for ONE of these three religions, all Monotheistic: -Christianity -Jewish -Muslim You can do more than one if you would like to. We will be rapping to try to get the voters to take our side on religion. My opponent will rap his first lines THIS round. If they fail to follow these rules, they shall Forfeit 7 points to me. No Forfeiting is allowed. Ask about anything else in the comments.
Fire should qualify as a lifeform

I'm sorry for forfeiting the last round, my power went out due to lightning striking an electrical wire in my neighborhood. Ironically, the lightning bolt also caused a harmless fire that was quickly put down before property damage could happen, anyway, I am going to rebut mu opponents arguments since I gave up my opportunity to present mine. 1. Composed of cells, Every life form that was classified as such were composed of cells, and no God doesn't count because he can defy all human laws. As for extraterrestrial life, again I reiterate, no classified life form would be able to function w/o cells. 4) Reproduction Fire cannot reproduce fire without a host, I.e wood, gas, or other fuel sources. In this respect, it is like parasitic viruses, in the USA, viruses are not considered living beings, as they cannot reproduce without a host. 6) movement My opponent stated that fire is "movey". This does not really mean anything, fire can only move by being moved by an outside force. This could be a scattered fuel supply, wind or any other biotic or abiotic factor that can move the fuel source.
Fire should qualify as a lifeform

these are potentially the criteria to classify life: life is composed of cell/s, uses energy, grows, reproduces, adapts to its environment through evolution, responds to stimuli, and has movement.let's look at these individually:1. composed of cell/s. -theoretically, if there was an intelligent alien race that didnt have cells, they would still be considered lifeforms, so that criteria shouldn't necessarily be used. one could also make the case that robots with artificial intelligence should be considered alive, and they wouldnt have cells. also, an immaterial being like God wouldnt be considered alive. you may think these things dont exist, but they hypothetically could, so in theory, cells shouldnt necessarily be used to classify livingness.2. life uses energy-fire uses fuel like wood or gas.3. life grows-fire can grow4. life reproduces-fire is not unlike some asexual types of algae where part of it may split off and use ocean currents as a vessel to make an additional clone of itself elsewhere, while fire can use falling debris as a vessel to make a clone of itself elsewhere. 5. life adapts to its environment through evolution-this criteria shouldn't necessarily be used. let's say theoretically, that humans popped into existence on earth as they are now, without having the capability to evolve. should we not be considered life? something doesnt need to be able to evolve in order to be considered alive.6. responds to stimuli-fire reacts to things like pressure and chemicals7. movement-fire is very moveyconclusion: since fire passes all the reasonable criteria for life, it should be considered life
Hate crimes NEED to be noticed.

On February 12, 2008 15 year old Lawrence King was murded by fellow classmate Brandon Mclnerney. The incident took place at Green Junior High School - Oxnard CA, in the schools computer lab department. It was said that the day of the shooting Lawrence had asked Brandon to be his valentine. Brandon was ridiculed as a result of this and ended up telling one of Lawrences friends to say goodbye "because she would never see him again" . Brandon shot Lawrence in the head with a .22 caliber revolver which he discarded after the murder. Lawrence was rushed to St. Johns Regional Medical Center where he was listed as being in a critical condition. He was declared brain dead on February 13 but was kept on life support for a further 2 days so that his organs could be donated. I could only find a few articals on this and feel that a story like this deserves more than a few local stories. I also watched his memorial on youtube and the priest that spoke about his life failed to mention his homosexuality. Hate crimes go unnoticed all too often and feel it is time for everyone like Lawrence to have their story told. It is heart breaking that because this boy was gay his story was seen as less than that of others. I'm not saying this happens all of the time but the majority of cases proves this point.
Joseph Kony 2012 Army

This new outreach program to stop the LRA is non sense is and not stating the actual facts to the situation. Their claim to help is to narrow and all they want to do is stop the war to save the children. This war has been going on for close to 30 years. And this organization make over 13 million dollars and only 31% goes to their actual fight. Now the government gets involved. they didn't want to get involved before because there was no economic interest for them to even involve themselves in Ugandan affairs.
Feminism

Thank you for the response, especially since you had a bad internet connection. Let me refute your points. First off, I reject your definition of feminism. I think feminism was the belief that men and women should be equal, but I proved that this is no longer the case in third wave feminism. I also reject your premise, because I stated in my first argument that MODERN feminism is harmful. My opponent has implied that it is the fault of men today that women weren't allowed to vote in some states until 1919. It was wrong that this happened, but taking revenge on men won't solve anything. In fact, it will cause embitterment between both sexes. Your first argument is invalid, because I never said that men and women weren't intellectually equal (although they generally don't have as much physical strength as men do, which I will provide the proof for below). And again, you can't blame the phrasing of the Declaration of Independence on men born two centuries after it was created. I don't think you have won this debate. Maybe I am wrong though. Maybe you can prove yourself in the second round. Good luck http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... (source for men's vs. women's strength)
Feminism

Definition(s): 1. Feminism: "Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women. "[1][2]Premise: There has been, and still is, a prejudice against certain people. These prejudices have resulted in much abuse, but the female sex has been abused, and mistreated more than many others. It was not until 1919 until women were allowed to vote, and were considered equal in the eyes of the law[3], it was only in 1993 that the United Nations first passed a resolution for the protection of women rights[4], and despite this even today women are abused, beaten, and have to face glass ceilings. [5] Stance: I will be advocating for Feminism as a positive philosophy where feminism is the belief that women, and men should be treated equally in all formal respects such as law, merit of job, education, et cetera. I will attempt to show that my opponent has a misguided understanding of feminism, and has no basis nor proof of the statistics he cites. I shall be presenting two positive line of arguments. 1. All Are Born Equal2. Women Are Yet MistreatedLOA1: All Are Born Equal"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. " -Declaration of Independence Even here the word "man" is used. This may seem to be a "free doctrine" when in fact here "man" is not gender neutral, and does not apply to dark skinned men, or women. In fact this only applied to white men. Even in one of the greatest documents of history, one finds prejudice. Though the document does get one thing right: that each person is born with inalienable rights, and all are equal. Including women, girls, or members of the femine gender. Women are also sentient creatures, and possess the same cognitive abilities, reasoning capacities, as men. Thus we asert that women are in fact equal to men, and it would be much perverted of our opponent to disagree and state that women are in any view "inferior" At this point we have won this debate. For so long as the belief that women and men are equal is prevalent the philosophy that they should be treated equally is naturally acceptable. That is truly what feminism is, not a doctrine which states that women are superior to men, or exactly the same (after all there are biological differences), but rather that women have the right to be treated equally in formal matters. They should be entitled to the same court benefits, the right to vote, the same education, the same salary, and the same treatment as men of equal caliber. I shall be giving my second line of argument, and my refutations in the following second round for lack of time. My internet connection was having issues, I apologize. [1]. http://tinyurl.com...[2]http://tinyurl.com...[3]http://tinyurl.com...[4]http://tinyurl.com...[5]Ibidem-Theo
Feminism

Nobody has ever had the courage to actually debate this with me without forfeiting or using ad-homenim. Anyways, here's my argument: Modern feminism is harmful for many reasons. The first hint at this is the prefix "Fem", or about women. Not about men, because feminism doesn't care about inequality towards men. Now, I would like to address the issue of the "wage gap". The wage gap of 77% was a statistic measured many years ago. This is just assuming this statistic is true, which I don't think it is. Next I would like to address the issue of domestic violence. Is domestic violence against women a problem? Yes. Of course it is. However, statistics have pointed out that close to 40% of domestic violence victims are men. Little to no attention has been given to this issue Finally, I would like to address body image. Are women pressured to stay thin? As with domestic violence, yes. They are. But, again, so are men. If anyone has read this far, thank you. I hope that someone will debate with me to help me shed light on feminism.
Current Drinking Age

The drinking age was 18 in the past and it was raised for a reason. The UK is actually debating changing their drinking age , because of our example and that they have such a problem with binge drinking in younger people. They have seen that the numbers have dropped since the 80s. Australia , yet another country debating whether to raise the drinking age .http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au... Now the only reason I bring up other countries is one of your reasons for lowering the drinking age is , we are the country with the highest drinking age. Unmderage drinking will happen regardless of the age. But with college drinking such an issue , why make it easier for them to access alcohol. Instead we need to come up with a solution for stopping these young adults for behaving in dangerous forms of alcohol consumptions. Making it easier for them to get the alcohol will not stop underage drinking. It will just make it easier for some. Some 18 year olds are in HS , so lets not only make it a problem for college campuses , lets make it easier for HS students . then they will have their very own classmate to get them all the alcohol they need. We need to stop binge drinking and drinking and driving among young people not say oh WTH they are drinking anyway , so lets make it legal. An 18 year old can sign up to fight for their country , however in my eyes you cant compare the two .. Standing up for your country is a brave thing to do and you know the risks , drinking alcohol ...is just drinking alcohol. A serviceman knows that he is signing up to fight for his country at 18 and still can't drink alcohol ..so how is it not fair. yes you can vote but voting isn't dangerous. Also drinking and driving or binge drinking can result not only in your own pain and suffering , but you can hurt someone else. College campuses can not control drinking at the age it is at , so you honestly believe adding more to the mix will help???? It needs to be dealt with. Rules must be tightened not broadened.
Current Drinking Age

18 is not to young. For some people they've been driving for 2-3 years. Does that mean it's too young to die for your country. If you're old enough to die for your country, I think you should damn well be able to do whatever you please, as far as the law goes. To put it in different terms, 18 should be the legal age to drink considering you can do just about everything else. If not, then you shouldn't be able to vote or die or fight until your 21 also...and go to clubs. Like I said before, if it was lowered, there wouldn't be so much of a problem. Seeing as people would for the most part get tired of it and stop drinking except on occasion. You can legally get married at age 18, but you can't drink at your reception due to the fact you have to be 21. Does it make sense no. I do agree with your argument though, if we lowered the age, then we should also have stricter rules to have the safety of the younger ones. Thousands of problems could be solved if we lowered the age.
Current Drinking Age

Two of your arguments for lowering the age are not really valid. For example, just because you lower the drinking age , does not mean that underage drinking will stop. It will just be younger kids that are caught. Kids are drinking at 16 and 17 they will still drink at 16 and 17, if the age is 18. WE need tougher laws for underage drinking. Also , you said that other countries all have lower drinking ages , again what does that have to do with our country? Just because one country has a law one way , doesn't mean we should share a law. It is a proven fact that college kids (for the most part, not all of them ) are very irresponsible drinkers. Rather than let them drink legally, why not make laws tougher so they have less access to alcohol than let them roam free. As for once youre legal, you don't want to do it anymore because its not a big deal . Not necessarily true. When people turn 21, they are constantly at bars (again I know not all people) for about a year or two... If you change the age they will just do the same when they are 18 and 19 and probably even longer. 18 is too young, they are not experienced drivers , and often dont understand just how dangerous it is to drink and drive. College and drinking is already a big enough problem , we need to find away to control the college and binge drinking not make it easier.