God does not Exist

Before I continue my argument I would like to mention that we are continuing the debate and after further evidence provided by my opponent we have agreed that he did not plagarize. Voters should ignore the issue and base their argument solely on the arguments - not based on this issue. == REBUTTALS == Continued .... My opponent's paragraph regarding further argument on theory A. To sum up his argument placed forward is basically what he is saying is that the process will be infinite without the influence of a diety. The main problem that I, and possibly others will have is that this argument relies on the fact that you are obedient; listen to everything everyone says and that you can live forever because you will eventually die. It is essentially an infinite process however this will never happen as the laws of physics can prove and therefore this argument is invalid. If this could actually happen then we could be discussing this and actually testing your theory. Just because you can think up of an infinite process that does not mean that God automatically exists. My opponent then provides a l and an ll. I will begin by refuting l l - My opponent has assumed that a deity must existence in order for the universe to exist, so instead of completely showing why he is wrong I will provide a much more likely explanation for why and how the universe came into existence. I now present to you, the big bang theory which has officially been accepted by the Catholic Church. "According to the big bang theory, the universe began by expanding from an infinitesimal volume with extremely high density and temperature. The universe was initially significantly smaller than even a pore on your skin. With the big bang, the fabric of space itself began expanding like the surface of an inflating balloon – matter simply rode along the stretching space like dust on the balloon's surface. The big bang is not like an explosion of matter in otherwise empty space; rather, space itself began with the big bang and carried matter with it as it expanded. Physicists think that even time began with the big bang. Today, just about every scientist believes in the big bang model. The evidence is overwhelming enough that in 1951, the Catholic Church officially pronounced the big bang model to be in accordance with the Bible." This easily refutes your claim and since it is even in accordance with Catholics officially. I do not konw what religion you are but I am assuming that you are a Christian and I am sure that you did not know that the Catholic Church accepted the Big Bang as a valid theory. With all of this being said I believe that for the moment this is a suffient rebuttal to my opponents claim. ll - I will refute this claim separately from my previous. My opponents claim states that the universe has the attributes of a deity. Let's assume, for the moment, that the Universe really is perfectly set up for life, and human life at that. I don't think that for a second -- I'll get to that in a bit -- but for the sake of argument, let's assume that it's true. Does that imply the Universe was created that way on purpose? No. It absolutely does not. Here's an analogy. I just rolled a die 10 times (that's a six-sided die), and got the sequence 3241154645. The odds against that particular sequence coming up are astronomical. Over 60 million to one. Does that mean that this sequence was designed to come up? Or think of it this way. The odds against me, personally being born? They're beyond astronomical. The chances that, of my mom's hundreds of eggs and my dad's hundreds of millions of sperm, this particular sperm and egg happened to combine to make me? Ridiculously unlikely. Especially when you factor in the odds against my parents being born...and against their parents being born...and their parents, and theirs, and so on and so on and so on. The chances against me, personally, having been born are so vast, it's almost unimaginable. But does that mean I was destined to be born? Does that mean we need to concoct an entire philosophy and theology to explain The Improbability of Greta-ness? Or does it simply mean that I won the cosmic lottery? Does it simply mean that my existence is one of many wildly improbable outcomes of the universe... and if it hadn't happened, something else would have? Does it simply mean that some other kid would have been born to my parents instead... a kid whose existence would have been every bit as unlikely as mine? Yes, life on Earth is wildly improbable. And if it hadn't happened, some other weird chemical stew would have arisen on Earth, one that didn't turn into life. Or life would have developed, but it would have evolved into some form other than humanity. Or the Earth would never have formed around the Sun, but some other unlikely planet would have formed around some other star. (Maybe one with cool rings around it like Saturn, only Day-Glo orange with green stripes.) If life on Earth hadn't happened, something else equally improbable would have happened instead. We just wouldn't be here to wonder about it. Douglas Adams put this extremely well in his renowned Puddle Analogy. He said: "Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" Yes, the hole fits us rather neatly. But that doesn't mean the hole was designed to have us in it. We evolved to fit in the hole that happened to be here. If the hole had been shaped differently, something else would have happened instead. And how perfect is this hole, anyway?Theory B - Rebuttal I never said that the universe was infinte (or eternal). I never posed this theory and therefore this argument does not have a place in this debate. I belive in the Big Bang theory and I agree with my opponent that the universe is not eternal. Sourcehttp://www.ugcs.caltech.edu...