RESOLVED: Philosophically, the Christian God is more likely to exist

Rebuttals: "Theology deals with other more complex religious functions that are of no interest to this debate." Because the resolution is "..the Christian God is more likely to exist.." you have allowed for theology to be introduced. "The Flying Spaghetti Monster created spaghetti; does that mean he exists?" You are under the presumption that the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not exist. If it can be shown that the Flying Spaghetti Monster does exist then we would accept it. Therefore i did not commit the causation-correlation fallacy. "The universe was created from something "higher" entity" is another false statement. For if it were, then what caused God? If God were a free lunch (i.e God always existed) then that violates the cause-effect structure. If God was always there, then why not say the universe was always there? The Big Bang, the best explanation for the causations of the universe, was caused by quantum flunctuations which allowed for time, space and atoms to be formed. If the Christian God caused it, then the universe is 6,000 years old. In reality, that is a false statement, for there has been no proof, or definitive ones, of the universe being that young." I can simply propose that God is the cause of everything as he is outside of space and time, thus it does not violate any structure. The universe wasn't always there because God caused it. The big bang does explain what caused the universe, but how it expanded from a single point (1). You also presume that the universe is 6,000 years old when you provide no Scriptural support. Therefore, you did not "disprove" God. "as proven in the substance-mode argument, two substances of different nature cannot be the cause of one another; then how could the material and immaterial interact with each other? " You did not refute my counter-arguments against that, hence your claim that God was invented by humans was not proven. Being justified to believe in God does not indicate God is not real. Con argues that Jewish monotheism was derived from Egyptian theology under the assumption that polytheism is derived from monotheism. First of all, Neolithic societies were monotheistic. Second of all, by comparing and contrasting the two belief systems, we will see that no borrowing ever occurred. 1. There was no concept of salvation in Atenism. He could careless if you worshiped other gods. This is strictly forbidden in the ten commandments. 2. Atenism did not begin as monotheism, but as henotheism or the preference of one god over others. 3. Jewish monotheism is full of ethical practices and morality whereas Atenism is not. In conclusion, Monotheism did not originate with Egyptian beliefs (2). As for the great deluge, there are several things which must be taken into consideration. 1. The Bible does not say that the flood itself was global. On the contrary, it is local (3) based on the grammatical usage of the word "eretz" in Hebrew. 2. The fact that there are many myths is irrelevant, simply that each has their own version and interpretation of the flood. These religions have died out while the Jewish/Christian concept of God has survived for thousands of centuries from oppression, corruption, and persecution. How can that be if not by divine intervention? "God cannot be all good, for he has killed people in the flood and evil still exists." God did not murder people in the flood, he brought divine judgement because of their wickedness (Gen. 6). I have already refuted the problem of evil earlier and my counter-arguments went uncontested. In conclusion, Con failed to disprove God's existence. All the evidence points to the Christian God most likely existing. Sources: 1. "Although the big bang theory is famous, it's also widely misunderstood. A common misperception about the theory is that it describes the origin of the universe. That's not quite right. The big bang is an attempt to explain how the universe developed from a very tiny, dense state into what it is today. It doesn't attempt to explain what initiated the creation of the universe, or what came before the big bang or even what lies outside the universe." http://science.howstuffworks.com... 2. http://www.tektonics.org... 3. http://biologos.org...