God Exists

Opening Yahweh- The God of the Bible. Yahweh means “He exists”. To Moses He said, “Ehyeh”, which means “I exist. ” (I argue that this is very clever, whether this name was chosen by God himself or created by humans. ) I will be affirming that Yahweh does indeed exist. We live in a world where about 2 percent of the population is atheist, about 10 percent are agnostic/non-religious, and 88 percent religious. Of the concept of God that my opponent gave, 50 percent of the world's population adhere to said concept. (. http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://en.wikipedia.org...) These demographics are not given as an argument to prove God's existence, but to supply the reader the understanding of the beliefs of the people in the world. There are enough evidences to convince many people of a Creator; I will now present what I determine to be the most convincing: Arguments Prophecy Sir Isaac Newton- “The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify man's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after that they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things, predicted many ages before, will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by providence. ” . http://en.wikiquote.org... As the amount of prophecy recorded by the prophets of antiquity is overwhelmingly large, I will present only one case of fulfilled prophecy: In AD 70, the Jewish temple was destroyed, and the Jewish nation became dispersed after this event. For almost 2000 years, they remained as such, until in 1948 they again became a nation, restored the Hebrew language, and in 1967 increased their territory by reclaiming Jerusalem, their praised capital. “When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall be sanctified through them in the sight of the many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer. ” Ezekiel 39:27-28 “Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and eat their fruit. “I will also plant them on their land, And they will not again be rooted out from their land Which I have given them,” Says Yahweh your God. ” Amos 9:14-15 Sir Isaac Newton was also known to have made predictions about Israel's future: “The Jews will return to Jerusalem in the 20th century. ” Ruvic Rosenthal, “The Ostracized Newton,” Al Hamishmar, July26,1985, p.10. I don't see how my opponent can disprove that this prophecy actually came true, so I suspect he will attack the credibility of prophecy as not being an adequate proof for the existence of God. I argue that this is substantial proof, as God has finally become falsifiable. As previously quoted, “And they will not again be rooted from their land”, this shows that should the Jews ever lose control of Israel, the word of Yahweh would be broken, and thus His existence would be disproved. I argue that this is an immense prophecy that predicted an entire nation and people coming back together, and as many more prophecies like this have come true, the God who sent these prophecies must exist. Consciousness Causes Collapse . http://en.wikipedia.org... Here is a summary of what consciousness causes collapse means: The rules of quantum mechanics are correct but there is only one system which may be treated with quantum mechanics, namely the entire material world. There exist external observers which cannot be treated within quantum mechanics, namely human (and perhaps animal) minds, which perform measurements on the brain causing wave function collapse. ” Here is the problem with consciousness causing collapse: "[T]he evolution of conscious life on this planet is due to appropriate mutations having taken place at various times. These, presumably, are quantum events, so they would exist only in linearly superposed form until they finally led to the evolution of a conscious being—whose very existence depends on all the right mutations having 'actually' taken place! " -Roger Penrose This phenomenon is widely debated by scientists, and as many scientists are materialists, they seek for alternative explanations. However, some scientists claim that this is an argument for dualism, and proves that a god has always existed. I argue that this is sufficient evidence not only for God existing, but evidence that He must have existed in the past, before human and animal consciousness. Should my opponent disagree with this, he must present evidence of other methods that cause collapse besides consciousness. Solar Eclipses (Many arguments for the existence of God tend to fall into a category of complexity, that things appear to be designed. They are always simple arguments, arguments that are quickly refuted by many atheists because natural processes can explain them. I will present such an argument, but I am quite confident that this particular issue will be unique in that my opponent will have a more difficult time to refute it. ) The moon appears to be designed. The sun's diameter is 864,938 miles and it's distance from earth is 92960000 miles away. The moon's diameer is 2,159 miles and it's distance from earth is 238900 miles away. . http://www.space.com... The sun is about 400 times bigger than the moon, and it is also about 400 times the distance away from the earth, making total solar eclipses possible. Solar eclipses are important because they are used in biblical prophesy. If the moon wasn't created with supernatural reasons to determine certain events (like the solar eclipse after Jesus' death on the cross, predicted by Joel 2:31 "The Sun will be turned into darkness. "), then what naturalistic processes explain how the moon came to be in just the perfect location for solar eclipses for humanity to see? Conclusion Yahweh exists because without Him, we would not exist (because consciousness is needed for collapse), we can trust His prophecy because it has always come true, and we have His creation to admire and to mark the months and sometimes prophetic events.