GOD is ALIVE.

< > Really? Because in Round One, your opening read: < > You have completely contradicted yourself and invalidated your opening argument by stating: < > < > Science dictates that we function on our own without some big, cosmic, sky-daddy operating and sustaining each and every living person (with the exception of those that He is allowing to suffer and die, of course). < > Yes, many of God's clergy men have lied to me and many others like myself. << for instance if i started to teach a 1st grade class that 7+5=13, they will most likely believe me.>> Not if you teach them the concept of math, they won't. If you only teach them that equation without teaching them how to count, then they'll accept anything blindly. It is how you were indoctrinated into your religion. "i will guarantee that you were taught everything that you are saying." (Sound familiar?) < > I do know that and if I am to be honest with you, I believe you should know about a book written by Richard Dawkins named 'the god delusion'. It is the truth and I feel you would be better off in life if you opened yourself to its message, my brother. < > You have yet to fulfill your claim in Round One and prove this though. < > This is not true. The other planets in this solar system may not be able to sustain life, but they too are alive (with the exception of Pluto, which is no longer considered a planet). < > God did not exist until man created him, so in the notion that God is a thought, he is not "ALIVE" by the agreed upon definition above. < > To further validate my point of science being relevant to this debate, I would like to point out that my opponent claims that God has communicated with him. For an unseen God to have transferred a message from his plane of existence to come crashing into this one for a human mind to receive and interpret, science must have been involved at some point. It is ridiculous to attribute this claim, in a Universe that is constructed with science as its fabric, as purely magical. << un-believers do not believe this is possible, thats why they do not operate in this spiritual principle.>> So if I believe in Santa Claus, he will bring me presents again? I think not. < very near you.>> I am sorry that you do not believe in yourself. Your belief in God is violating your life in ways that you are unaware. I hope you discover the truth for yourself one day. Best of luck with that! < > I see evidence of murder/death and crime everyday, which is done by your God, by your definition. If God is making all thing move and keeping all things alive, then it is your God that is making this world such an ugly place. < > Ah, and theism's creed. "Listen to me! I am special and important! I am a 'Chosen One'! Give me money, I will take a cut, and with the rest we will do God's work!" Clearly a means to control others; to control how they think and feel. Truly disturbing. My opponent has given many reasons as to why he thinks/feels/tastes/knows God is alive, but he has no proof. There is no proof because if there were, we'd all be united as a people under one belief system. We are not, therefore there is no proof whatsoever. Thanks for the debate, dollarphotography.com!