evidence for Judaism

I objected to my opponent's point if the total age of the universe is infinite and the age before the age of the earth is infinite then the age after the big bang must be zero. My opponent believes that this proves that there must have been a god to create the universe. I ask him to actually respond to my refutation of this erranous line of thinking. My opponent writes this on the question of first cause. //"My opponent next criticizes my evidence of 1st cause (i. e. Cause of gases, and their movement); by stating a question is not a proof. To this I respond a question can be evidence when the question is answered by the idea being purposed. "// This is a magnificent piece of circular logic. So you are saying that if I proposed that I actually had lazer vision. And when you asked for proof, my "proof" was in the form of the question: Who besides Superman has lazer vision? Now just because I answer with "Spinko has lazer vision" does not make that the correct answer. But wait, this is exactly the same as what my opponent has said about his god claim. Can I have lazer vision, simply because I answered a question with that answer? Obviously not and this little piece of "evidence" put forth by my opponent should be discarded. Next my opponent claims that because god did something that was "imposable" this just further proves that he is all powerful. I said that my opponent actually has to prove that god exist first which he did not. My opponent responds with: //"Now in your analogy you prove an occurrence based on an observation, using the fact that the stated occurrence explains the experienced event. What I have done here is quite different, I'm considering that god created the universe as a given as I have already provided evidence. I am using this occurrence (i. e. God's creation of the universe} as evidence of one of his characteristics. "// My opponent assumes god is real as a given. This is where the fallacy lies and we may also discard this piece of "evidence". I will now cite a quotation of my opponent's from the last round. //"My opponent wrights "My opponent's last piece of "evidence" is that a lot of people believe something is true. I will ask my opponent not to commit the fallacy of the argument from popularity and actually bring real evidence of his religion to this debate. " I am afraid I have been misunderstood I am not stupid enough to use numbers as evidence if that were so Christianity and Islam would be much stronger than Judaism. The evidence is experiential the message being passed from, by, and to millions is not one of belief rather one of experience. I hope I have sufficiently clarified this point. I can elaborate in the next round if necessary. Now back to miracles:"// This is no different from claiming that a lot of people are Jews. All you are saying is that a lot of people believe that Judaism is the one true religion. Now on to my opponent's alleged examples of miracles performed by god. Miacle#1 The 1st miracle is the miracle of creation, see above. God created an extraordinarily complex and intricate universe from nothing. If necessary I may elaborate on this in upcoming rounds. My opponent again makes the logical fallacy of believing that the universe coming into existence had to come from god. If it did then that means god exists. If it did not have to then god does not necessarily exist. My opponent must prove that the universe coming into existence had to be caused by god before this can be regarded as a miracle and thus evidence of god. The big bang and evolutionary theory very nicely explain the universe's and life's alleged complexity and my opponent must prove these two theories to be erranous before the god theory can be believed as the big bang and evolution explain life and the universe's complexity in a much better way. Miracle#2 The next miracles I present are the plagues in Egypt. Evidence for this can be found in exodus chapters 7 to 12. I have a feeling you won't like this so I will try to bring additional evidence but in your response please state if and why you don't like this evidence so I may deal with it further. My opponent is correct in stating that I will not accept the Bible as objective evidence for god's existence or miracles and I do ask that my opponent bring real evidence of miracles. Many claims in the Bible have not been corroborated by scientific inquiry such as the great flood, men living into the 900's and human life being created in a single day. My opponent then simply copies and pastes a wikipedia page claiming that the plagues occured. Of course Wikipedia can be edited by any user so my opponent should at the very least cite more independent sources. Miracle #3 Next miracle is the revelation of god at Sinai primary source is the bible exodus chapter 19. Again, my opponent only provides a source from the Bible. I have already shown that the Bible does not have a good track record with science or objective fact and my opponent really needs to stop appealing to popularity and cite some real sources or facts. I have shown that at the very least my opponent's logic is circular, fallacious, and severely lacking. My opponent has provided three examples of miracles which have either not been corroborated by scientific consensus or are based on circular logic.