G-d exists

My opponent has not presented evidence or proof, merely assertions. But I will happily debunk them anyways. Claim #1: The revelation at Mt. Sinai (like most stories in the Bible and Torah) is a fictional event - we have no evidence for it besides Jewish scripture which as a matter of bias cannot be trusted as a historical document alone. Modern archaeologists admit that for Exodus itself “there is nothing in Egyptian records to support it. Nothing on the slavery of the Israelites, nothing on the plagues that persuaded Pharaoh to let them go, nothing on the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea, nothing.” [1] Even Rabbi Burt Visotzky, a professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York admits the telling of the Exodus as described in the Torah is questionable: “There is virtually no evidence, as the Torah says, that 600,000 Jewish males, with their wives and children and elders, left Egypt in the Exodus ... Those are big numbers. You'd think someone would notice.” [2] In fact it’s very possible that the story of the Exodus and other scripture was stolen from Egyptian lore. In reference to the actions of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten when he spurned polytheism in favor of monotheistic worship of Aten “Hapi, the androgynous god of the Nile, would make its waters undrinkable; Kermit, the goddess of fertility, would release her frogspawn to swarm over the land; Osiris, the god of corn, would not prevent the locusts from consuming his cereals, and Ra, the sun god, would refuse to shine. Sound familiar?” [1] Furthermore “All over the walls inside the city's beautiful tombs are examples of Akhanaten's radical message of monotheism. There is the Hymn to the Aten … it bears a striking resemblance to a passage that can be found in the Hebrew Bible: Psalm 104. And if you compare certain parts of it, you'll find it almost exactly -- a typical translation for some of the [psalms] of David. … Psalm 104, written a few hundred years later, references a Lord that ruled over Israel and a passage compares him to the sun.” [2] To sum it up, there is no evidence to support the Exodus claim, the Torah is not a historical document and like all religions is influenced by its cultural predecessors and not proof of God. Claim #2: Pro seems to think victory in the 6 days war (1967) is evidence for his God, he doesn’t say how, just asserts it as truth. By the same logic does the military victories of Mohamed prove the existence of the Muslim God? Do the military conquests of Stalin and Mao prove anything positive about the existential stance that athesm holds? Of course not. But moving on, Israel may have been out manned, but technologically speaking Israel was superior, especially in controlling air space. The 6 Day War was a surprise attack against its neighbors, not an act of God. Most of the Promised Land taken by Israel in that war is no longer under Israel’s control. In the Yom Kippur War 6 years later the leaders of Israel were not looking to God to save them from early military losses, but to the US and nuclear weapons. “It was in the early hours of Oct. 9 that senior Israeli military leaders brought up the idea of using Israel's doomsday weapons. … According to a new book by the Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, when the prime minister's top military aide heard those ideas, he begged the army's deputy chief of staff, tears in his eyes, 'You must save the people of Israel from these madmen.” [3] Prime Minister Golda Meir secretly flew to Washington DC to plead for US aid, and Nixon had cause to listen given the doomsday nature of the situation. “American intelligence had signs that Israel had put its Jericho missiles, which could be fitted with nuclear warheads, on high alert (the Israelis had done so in an easily detectable way, probably to sway the Americans into preventive action).” [3] And act the US did with massive aid, virtually replacing all the machinery Israel had lost in the previous weeks. It was not God that saved Israel; it was the US and the threat of nuclear weapons. Technologically speaking Israel has never been at a disadvantage. Claim #3: This claim is wholly unsubstantiated. First off, today Ethiopia is mostly a Christian nation with Islam a far second. There are virtually no Jews, why would the Jewish God allow non-Jews to use His power for protection? The Ark of the Covenant is not in Ethiopia or anywhere, nor does my opponent even mention how the ark came to Ethiopia. Does the Arc only prevent military loss and can’t stop itself from being lost? My opponent also doesn’t seem to know Ethiopia was eventually conquered by Italy during WW2 [4], so it appears the Arc’s magic did not work then. Claim #4: Prophecy is a matter of interpretation not evidence for God. Pro claims prophecy is evidence for his God, yet Christians often interpret many of those prophecies as the coming of Christ – how can we trust the methodology of interpretation given such vast contridictory conclusions? Vague prophecies can easily be fulfilled especially when my opponent only takes bits and snippets of scripture without context and applies them retroactivly. None of this is evidence for God; Nostradamus also made many predictions and like Jewish prophecy many faithful followers can come up with numerous ways to claim fulfillment. Claim #5: This is essentially a roundabout version of the argument for a designer/creator based on the existence of the creation. There are many flaws in this argument. Firstly it assumes that everything has a creator, except God. How convenient that the rules of creation do not apply to God, but when talking about building a house the rules still apply to the house builder. Second, humanity and the universe itself are not perfect. Humans have many flaws both physically and emotionally, and if humans are God’s most favorite creation then the existence of black holes and meteors capable of wiping out all life of earth shows we live not in a Garden of Eden but something much more hostile. The existence of an imperfect creation does not imply the existence of a perfect creator. An imperfect creator could supposedly exist, but this being could not be called God. And if my Pro wants to argue the universe and humanity is purposefully created to be imperfect, with all of our suffering intended, such a being is not omnibenevolent and is not God as traditionally understood. Furthermore the argument from design tells us nothing about intent or purpose. How does the design of a common rock show that it was the product of intelligent design? If God truly created everything, including rocks, there must be evidence of it correct? No, it is entirely speculation done by Pro. Conclusion: Pro has provided no credible sourcing or citation for his claims. He repeats Jewish myths that have been debunked by modern science and logic along with Israeli propaganda. Sources: [1] http://www.jpost.com... [2] http://abcnews.go.com... [3] http://www.nytimes.com... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org...