Belief in the god of the bible is irrational - 2nd Debate

I'd like to apologize to my opponent and the readers about the format. I'm typing this on my phone and it doesn't allow me to format things. So I will denote different arguments/sections like so: ==New Argument== ==KCA== There is not a single argument that proves the existence of the God of any religion. Since the God of the Bible has multiple attributes, to argue for Him requires multiple arguments that add up to Him. And, as I argued, the cause of the universe must have certain attributes which theists ascribe the name "God" to. ==Pool Table Argument== Since the only objection raised is that I didn't prove that there are a finite number of past causes, I will argue that now. Hilbert's Hotel Paradox 1st, imagine a hotel with a finite number of rooms. Next, imagine that all of the rooms are full. If someone shows up asking for a room, the manager says, "Sorry. We have no room." End of story. Now, imagine a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Again, imagine all the rooms are full. Not 1 single vacancy. Imagine again that someone asks for a room. So the manager moves everyone up 1 room. So now the first room is unoccupied. Now that person has a room, and all the rooms are once again full. So before he showed up, all the rooms were full, and he was still able to check into the hotel. Now imagine that an infinite number of people showed up and asked for a room. So, to make room, the manager moves the people from room 1 to room 2, from room 2 to room 4 and so on, moving every person into a room number twice the value of his original room number. Since any number doubled is even, all of the guests are now in even numbered rooms. This now opens space for everyone asking for rooms, and they move into the odd numbered rooms. In fact, the manager could do this an infinite amount of times and always accommodate an infinite amount of guest. Even though the all the rooms would already be full. This demonstrates that the notion of an actual infinity is clearly absurd. Furthermore, there is yet another problem with there being an infinite series of past events. Let's entertain the idea that there actually an infinite series of past events, meaning the universe never had a beginning. Supposing the time has lapsed from minus infinity means that history would have to count through a countable set of events. Given this property, no matter how many events ticked by, there would always be an infinite amount of time before we actually arrived in the present. In other words, if the past is infinite, history would never progress as there would always be an infinite amount of years to go before reaching the present. Yet the present exists, so there couldn't be in infinite series of events. ==Irreducible Complexity== Your objection to this is ad hoc and can be dismissed via the Law of Parsimony. It seems that scientists would agree that the eye didn't evolve simultaneously and that it actually involved slight modifications [1]. So it would be your burden to argue that it evolved simultaneously. ==Jesus of Nazareth== My opponent claims that this argument went unsupported, but I fail to see how. 4 of my 14 sources were dedicated to this argument. If you recall, I made 4 claims: 1. After his crucifixion, Jesus was buried in a tomb by Joseph of Arimathea. 2. After his crucifixion, his tomb was found empty by some of his women followers. 3. People experienced appearances of Jesus after his crucifixion 4. The Disciples believed that Jesus was alive despite evidence that he wasn't. I then provided at least 1 good reason why we should accept each as fact. I then concluded that the best explanation was the Jesus actually rose from the dead. This argument was clearly supported. ==Old Earth Theory== Pro formulates his argument as follows: P1: The earth is older than 6000 years. P2: God's existence requires the earth to be 6000 years old. C1: God doesn't exist. Pro doesn't actually argue that the earth is old, he just cited a source that says so. That aside, the source's justification for the earth being 4.5 billion years old is that of Radiometric Dating, specifically, Uranium-Lead decay. There are, however, problems with Radiometric Dating. Scientists make assumptions about the conditions at Time Zero. No scientist knows whether a sample contained daughter isotopes alongside parent isotopes. One example is the Mt. St. Helens eruption of 1986. Scientists assumes that there would be very low amounts of Argon-40, since it had just recently erupted. A sample from that eruption was analyzed in 1996, and dated at 350,000 years old because there was much more Argon-40 than expected [2]. A similar occurrence happened with Mt. Ngauruhoe, in New Zealand [3]. Scientists also assume that there is zero contamination. The radioactive "clock" is susceptible to contamination by way of water or lava flow. This contamination yielded a 3.908 billion year uranium-lead age on lava flows known to be less than 50 years old at Mt. Ngauruhoe [4]. The last assumption made is that the decay rate has constant been constant for billions of years. However, new evidence has come to light that suggests that the decay rate uranium is not constant. One example is the uranium decay in crystals from New Mexico. The uranium-lead age was 1.5 billion years. This same decay produced a lot of helium, but only 6000 years worth was found to have leaked out [5]. This means that the uranium-lead decay rate must have increased drastically over that 6000 year period. That being dealt with, I will present evidence that the universe is younger than 4.5 billion years. ==Lunar Recession== The Moon cannot come any closer than about 10,000 miles from the earth without it breaking up into rings like that of Saturn[6]. It is known the Moon is receding from the earth at a rate of about 1.5 Inches per year due to tidal interaction. It has been calculated that if time was reversed 1.4 billion years, the moon would have been touching the earth [7]. Not within the Roche Limit, but actually touching the earth. This is approximately 1/4 of the time within the Evolutionary Timescale. It is for this reason that the Earth and the Moon can be at maximum, 1.4 billion years old if the Roche Limit could be violated. ==Winding Galaxies== The stars in our galaxy rotate around the galactic center at different speeds, with stars closer to the center revolving faster than those farther from the center [8]. If the universe was even a few hundred million years old, only a tiny fraction of the Big Bang timescale, then the universe would be a formless cluster of stars rather than a spiral [9]. This shows that our Galaxy is younger that the Big Bang model would posit, which is about 13.6 billion years [10]. ==Supernovae== On average, the Milky Way experiences 3 supernovae per century [11]. However, there is only evidence of about 200 supernovae ever occurring in our galaxy [12]. When you do the math, it comes out to be about 6700 years, which is consistent with the Biblical account. ==Sources== 1. http://www.pbs.org... 2. S. A. Austin, "Excess Argon within Mineral Concentrates from the New Dacite Lava Dome at Mount St. Helens Volcano," Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 10.3 (1996): 335"343. 3. A. A. Snelling, "The Cause of Anomalous Potassium-Argon "Ages" for Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implications for Potassium-Argon "Dating,"" in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Creationism, ed. R. E. Walsh (Pittsburgh: Creation Science Fellowship, 1998), pp. 503"525. 4. A. A. Snelling, "The Relevance of Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics to Elucidation of the Genesis and History of Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implications for Radioisotopic Dating," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Creationism, ed. R. L. Ivey, Jr. (Pittsburgh: Creation Science Fellowship, 2003), pp. 285"303; Ref. 4, 2005. 5. L. Vardiman, A. A. Snelling, and E. F. Chaffin, eds., Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: Results of a Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research; Chino Valley, Arizona: Creation Research Society, 2005); D. B. DeYoung, Thousands . . . Not Billions (Green Forest, Arkansas: Master Books, 2005). 6. https://en.wikipedia.org... 7. http://www.icr.org... 8. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu... 9. Scheffler, H. and Elsasser, H., Physics of the Galaxy and Interstellar Matter, Springer-Verlag (1987) Berlin, pp. 352-353, 401-413. 10. http:/www.universetoday.com/21822/age-of-the-milky-way/ 11. https://arxiv.org... 12. Davies, K., Distribution of supernova remnants in the galaxy, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Creationism, vol. II, Creation Science Fellowship (1994), pp. 175-184