God Doesn't Exist

God: The omnipotent being who is the grounds and creator of our universe.Evolution Does Not Disprove GodMy opponent has brought up evolution, which she supposes that it in itself disproves that there is a divine creator. However, she has yet to provide evidence that evolution itself shows that there is no God. Charles Darwin himself was an agnostic; he never denied the existence of God. He only believed that evolution was the means of how life organisms have evolved over time. There are also many theists who believe in evolution and in God, so my opponent cannot claim that all religious people don't believe in evolution. Evolution only explains how life organisms have transitioned from one species to another. It doesn't explain or show the origin of life; only the transition of it. So I ask my opponent, is it not plausible to say that life originated because of a divine creator? Life would've have to have suddenly "appeared" from non-life. The Earth in its earlier stages, before life came to be, had and atmosphere of carbon dioxide and ammonia, meaning that if life first appeared on this planet, it would've come as a combination of those two molecules. There is no evidence for this yet. Scientists have attempted to create life by mixing amino acids, but have been met with disappointment.Evidence & ReasoningMy opponent brings up also the evidence case for God. I agree that there isn't much strong scientific evidence for a God, but there have been rational arguments based on reason alone that support his existence. First, I would like to point out that the human perception is limited, filtered through the human senses. We can only see a small part of the light spectrum and can only hear a certain range of sound frequencies. Because our perception is so limited, we cannot detect a higher spiritual nature, but that doesn't mean a higher spiritual realm is nonexistent. We have discovered only what we have of the visible universe through our human input, so claiming that there is no God solely because we cannot see or hear him is ridiculous.Also, there is the cosmological argument which that states that everything inside our universe has a cause, and every cause has an effect. Pro has stated that space is a valid cause for the creation of the universe, but she has not addressed the cause of the universe itself. The universe cannot be its own cause, so what is its origin? Here I would say that the cause is a divine creator, which is plausible, but there is a possible objection: what caused God? My answer would be that God is outside the universe, like an author is outside a novel, so the cause-effect rule would've come with the universe, created by him. Therefore, the rule would not to him, so he would not need an original cause.MiraclesPro addresses a few certain miracles that are told of in the Bible, so I will now discuss those. Although it is true that miracles do violate science, science is nothing more than the study of the empirical universe through observation and experimentation, and has been proven erroneous and wrong many times before. In order to prove that a scientific law is absolutely correct, we would have to test it an infinite amount of times, because there is always that chance that a certain test will not follow that law. Miracles would be that exception, so to say that they were made up without any valid evidence or reasoning is a baseless assertion. ReliefAgain, the claim that heaven and hell were made up is unsupported. Yes, is it plausible that heaven could've been made up to give relief to people, but what about hell? Why would Christians make up a place that dooms you for eternity? By this I will assume that my opponent is trying to make the argument that Christianity was created to satisfy desires, so let's change the perspective and assume that Christianity is right and atheism is wrong. Atheism provides a hiding place for those who do not want to acknowledge and repent of their sins. If God does not exist, then that means sins are not terrors to overcome but pleasures to enjoy. Greed and selfishness are okay, and so are many other wrongdoings. So if we look at atheism from that angle, then it too is satisfying people - people who do not want to face judgement for their sins.