God does not exist

Thanks to GorefordMaximillion for allowing me to debate this topic. Before I start, I'd like to make my stance on God clear to avoid any confusion. I believe in the possibility of God's existence. I believe that it is extremely difficult to prove, if even at all possible, the existence of God. However, I also believe that it is equally difficult to prove the nonexistence of God. First, let us attempt to define what God is. David Hume once wrote, "The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom." (from his text, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"). In other words, God is a Being who contains all of the virtues of man, amplified to infinity. He is also a ubiquitous Being with the ability to create, destroy and modify all things at will. Essentially, God can do anything, anywhere, anytime. This, of course, is a widely accepted assumption, because no human being has ever been able to completely define God. In fact, nearly every person that believes in God will likely tell us that He CANNOT be defined; that this is exactly what makes Him God. To be absolutely certain that God exists--or does not--is to have irrefutable proof. Therefore, in order to successfully challenge your position, hard evidence, that cannot be denied, must be provided. However, as we have just established, God cannot be understood through human reasoning. For this reason, instead of searching for "scientific" evidence, or evidence that we can understand, we will instead search for evidence that cannot be explained, just as God cannot be explained. Also, as we have already established, evidence pointing to the existence of God is extremely difficult to provide. Therefore, we will search for evidence showing that God COULD exist, rather than that He does. Our first piece of evidence concerns an age-old, unsolved mystery: the origin of the universe. Scientists today have managed to pinpoint exactly how human embryos in the wombs of their mothers develop into full-fledged adults. Though the important question of "how is life conceived" has been answered, another, even more important arises: "where did all life originate?" Researchers will point to the universe, and say that basically the universe contained all of the necessary ingredients for life: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and so on. These ingredients combined in just the right way, and under just the right conditions to allow for life--initially in the form of microscopic organisms. We continue to probe, however, and ask, "where did the universe itself originate?" At this point, the scientist tells us that the general consensus in the scientific world is that in the very beginning, there existed an infinitely small singularity--a tiny area of infinite density that defies our understanding of physics--and that at one point this singularity expanded into what eventually became the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, and us. This theory is known as the Big Bang. Ineluctably, though, we ask the fundamental question: "what was there before the universe?" Scientists believe that the answer is absolutely nothing. Yet it is not that they believe there was nothing, it is simply that they do not see how there could have possibly been anything--other, of course, than the singularity. Would it not, however, make sense that it was God who created this singularity? Is there the slightest doubt that God COULD have existed before this singularity, and, in fact, called this very thing into existence? The answer must inevitably be no. This singularity, and its surrounding context, completely baffle even the most advanced scientists, and cannot even begin to be explained. Yet it is plausible, completely conceivable even, that God was the Being behind it all. Our next piece of evidence concerns another subject in this universe that is equally as baffling to human beings--scientists and common thinkers alike--as the universe"s origin: the self, or the soul. The brain is a fascinating organ; it is the command center for the entire body, regulating its every function. Yet there is more to the brain than simply physical regulation. The brain is capable of learning, of assessing information, of acting upon this information, of constantly evolving. If an individual consumes a food that turns out to endanger his or her life, that individual will make a decision to never consume that item again. If this same individual notices, via sensory perception, a drop in temperature that no longer allows him or her to maintain a stable body temperature through homeostatic mechanisms, the individual may put on an article of clothing, or create a fire in order to artificially maintain the body's equilibrium. These processes, though formidable, can still be explained; scientists will describe to us in great detail the chemical and neurophysiological aspects of the brain and its functions. Indeed, the brain of a human being is no different than a computer. This gives rise to some very important questions: what is it that makes us unique? What is it that will make two human beings experience a situation similarly, but not identically? What is it that makes us imagine, or want, or love, or hate, or be happy, or depressed, or enraged? What is it that makes me me? All of these mental and emotional operations are what form the self. But where did the self come from? Where could the self have possibly formed? Once again, we apply the guidelines of our search to the notion of the self, and we realize that there is a possibility that the self did not simply come into being from nothing; perhaps it was God who created my self, or your self, and placed this self into an embryo. There is, again, absolutely no cause for doubt that God COULD have existed and created the self. We have searched for and found two very strong pieces of evidence pointing to the possibility of God's existence. Hopefully, this will be enough evidence to refute the certainty of God's nonexistence. (note: I apologize if this was ridiculously long to read, but I couldn't really find a way to condense it.)