The utter silliness of god, the bible and why you should not believe in god

PrefaceGreetings. It is apparent, by my opponents foul and bombastic language, that this will not be a very pleasant debate for anyone to read. However my aim here is to address the glaring failures in any attempt at logic and reasoning, and the egregious misconstruction of the Bible resultant no doubt from Pro's blatant ignorance of scripture. While I cannot in all honesty say that I expect to have an informative exchange, as that would imply relevant information going both ways, I will say that I look forward to an interesting debate and I hope my opponent will, for the sake of the prospective reader, attempt to show a glimmer of amicability in his following arguments.IntroductionThis debate concerns the issue of why or why not one should believe in the God of the Bible. Since Pro has not given any qualifications on what should constitute a superior argument for "why" one should accept the veracity of the God of the Bible, I posit that a scientific argument followed by a corroboration of scripture is a superior argument than that of perceived "silliness" in scripture. I will begin by arguing for the existence of God and follow up with scriptures which testify to the veracity of the biblical God of creation. After presenting my argument I will address Pro's fallacious claims.Argument From Genetic InformationDNA serves as the blueprint for every creature's phenotype. Since DNA is a language system in which communication occurs between a sender and receiver, it can rightfully be said to contain true information. To fully characterise the concept of information, five aspects must be considered: statistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and apobetics. Information is represented (that is, formulated, transmitted, stored) as a language. From a stipulated alphabet, the individual symbols are assembled into words (code). From these words (each word having been assigned a meaning), sentences are formed according to the firmly defined rules of grammar (syntax). These sentences are the bearers of semantic information. Furthermore, the action intended/carried out (pragmatics) and the desired/achieved goal (apobetics) belong of necessity to the concept of information. . . an encoded, symbolically represented message conveying expected action and intended purpose. We term any entity meeting the requirements of this definition as 'universal information' (UI) [1]. In the function of the genome within living cells we find statistics in the form of four letters which are cosyntactically organized to give the semantic meaning for transcription and translation. The semantic meaning encoded in the genome is pragmatically utilized in the formation of proteins and thus integral to the process of replication which is a part of the apobetic, or intended goal of the digital code. Information intrinsically depends upon an original act of intelligence to construct it, therefore the information seen in living cells testifies to having been originally created by an intelligent Creator. Note that this argument is not based upon the inability for naturalistic/statistical processes alone to account for the formation of genetic information, but rather my case is built upon what we do know about genetic code and function. Therefore this is not a god-of-the-gaps argument, as the claim is based on observation. Note also that this is not an argument from perceived complexity but from specified universal information. To refute my case is actually quite a simple task; one must only need demonstrate a single case where universal information, of the type seen in genetic code, is derived entirely from purely material sources. Based on observational science, universal information always comes from an intelligent mind, thus God most certainly exists per the UI found in living organism's genomes.Argument From ScriptureGod has providentially inspired and preserved His written words for us for the purpose of learning of Him and His will for us in our respective dispensations (biblical time-periods). In His word, the Bible, we find many attestations to its veracity concerning the existence of the God of creation. Below I will quote the verses and explain why they demonstrate corroboration with the real world. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20). Here we see that God has made Himself known to all via His creation. Thus we are able to see in many different ways, such as with genetic information, that God indeed exists. As such, scriptures which speak to truths otherwise unknown to men at the time they were written provide corroborating evidence to God's existence.Cosmogony: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). Many philosophers of times past believed that the universe was eternal whereas it seemed illogical to believe that space-time had a ex nihilo beginning. Subsequent scientific discoveries that the universe indeed had a definite beginning in space-time. The laws of physics demand it.Biology: "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:25). While men since the days of Aristotle and possibly before to the times of the ancient Egyptians postulated various ideas of spontaneous generation and evolution through various modes of transmutation, the Bible all along has claimed that creatures were created as original "kinds" or types and that these types only produce after their own kind. Although many today still accept an updated version of evolution from a primordial state of lifeless matter, biology and its sub-fields have rigorously demonstrated that organisms cannot change beyond the genetic bounds of their kind. Anthropology: "And [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth. . ." (Acts 17:26). Philosophers and scientists have long speculated that different races of people shared different ancestral origins. Even today some believe that there are fundamental differences in the ancestry of the various races of men. The Bible though has maintained that all men are the offspring of Adam and Eve and are thus of one blood. Genetics has conclusively shown that there is indeed one race: the human race.Geology: "And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered" (Genesis 7:19). Since the early 1800s geologists have surmised that Earth's sedimentary layers were evidence of successive epochs which spanned millenia into the past. More recent discoveries have revealed that the vast majority of sedimentary layers were deposited rapidly under catastrophic hydrologic conditions consistent with the biblical account of the global flood.Response to Pro's ClaimsPro reacts to Leviticus 14:33-57 saying, "In no way would any supreme deity -ever- concoct this obvious man made. . .Only a completely insane man or woman could have made that one up. Yes, without a doubt god and the bible are clearly man made." His argument seems to be that because this passage makes no sense to him, therefore God and His word are manmade. This is hardly an even half-way intelligent argument. I assume that Pro's contention lies with the efficacy of the sacrificial bird's blood's cleansing power. Firstly it should be understood that animals were often sacrificed at the command of God during the dispensation of the Mosaic law for the covering of sin and cleansing of people. Now no Bible believer would ever argue that there is some special property to be found in an animals blood to be able to provide such blessings. Clearly these animals typified Christ and His sacrificial blood which was shed to both atone for sin and cleanse the sinner of the ultimate sickness, namely death. Isaiah summed this up well, ". . .he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). God granted the miraculous power of the bird's blood to cleanse the people because of their obedience toward Him. It was God who wrought the healing and not the properties of the bird's blood. Regardless, failure to understand a command of God in no way negates His existence.Concerning Deuteronomy 21: 1-9 , Pro erroneously claims that, "Indeed so this is how according to the laws of the bible that how to investigate a murder should that place." Unfortunately Pro's failure in reading comprehension led him to such a misconstruction of scripture. Firstly, nothing in the passage says that an investigation was not to be conducted, rather it says that if no perpetrator is conclusively found to be the culprit of said murder, than the priests were to follow God's prescribed method of handling such a situation. This was God's way for Israel to settle any dispute on a mysterious crime of murder where no perpetrator can be rightfully blamed. They understood very well that vengeance is the Lord's and all justice lies with God alone: "To me belongeth vengeance and recompence. . ." (Deuteronomy 32:35). God will judge the murderer for His crime.I am running out of space so I will continue my rebuttal of Pro's "arguments" in the following round. Thus far I have argued from science and scripture that the God of the Bible should (a subjective term though it may be) be believed in rather than not. My opponent has utterly failed to support his case in any rational sense. His quibbles about certain passages which he fails to comprehend due to his egregious ignorance of scripture cannot possibly constitute any substantive argument against the God of the Bible or the veracity of His word for that matter.On to Pro. . .References[1] - http://creation.com... [2] - King James Bible