God does not exist.

I will respond in the following way:Burden of ProofFirstly, I will start with the issue of the burden of proof. My opponent has most of the burden of proof here because it is he who is affirming the presupposition that God doesn't exist. To take it further, he himself is also the challenger of the debate. So therefore, the majority of the burden is on him. Rebuttal 1My opponent starts off by saying that science can not prove nor disprove the existence of God. This is fact. So in this debate I will contend that both me and my opponent will be relying on the probability of whether or not God exists or is non-existent. He makes it his point that everything can exist independent of God. I will refute all of this. To say that God doesn't exist is to say that everything we know today came about in a cause ( I am assuming that he accepts a first cause for the Universe) that was non-personal and non-intelligent. To say this points chance, he and other people like him believe that everything we know came about by chance. However, the probability of this is not in his favor. Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and the Astronomer Fred Hoyle both calculated the odds at 1 in 10 40,000's, a number far removed from the realm of finite possibilities [1]. My first contention will be dealing with this further. I will give two contentions and maybe give two more in the next round. Contention 1: Kalam Cosmological ArgumentThe argument goes as explain by this contention:P1: Whatever begins its existence has a cause. P2: The Universe began it's existence. C: Therefore, The Universe had a cause. And the next syllogism will explain why the cause must be God. P1: The First cause of the Universe must be timeless or eternal. P2: All timeless causes of temporal must also be both of extremely large amounts of power and personal. C: Therefore, since God is the only explanation that fits this description, the First cause must be God. The First Premise expresses the undeniable truth that out of nothing comes nothing. It is absurd to deny this because there is no record of "things" coming from nothing. This because nothing is constrained by natural laws, since there is nothing really to constrain. Seriously, if our Universe was to come out of nowhere then why doesn't a giant asteroid that is larger then our Universe appear right beside it and smash into? Why doesn't a black hole just appear and consume our galaxy whole? This is obviously possibilities that my opponent must concede could happen but haven't for no reason what so ever since it is just random nothingness. And my second premise which is supported by tons of empirical evidence, the Universe gas been proven to be finite. The discovery of Universal Expansion [2] proves this for if the Universe is expanding outward then it must have started at a point. This point is what we call the Big bang [3]. Since the Universe is finite, then this means that before the Universe there must be infinity. But this is wrong because of the mathematical contradictions that result from applying operations to it. For example: Imagine that you have though sets of Balls. They are Green and Blue. The Green balls number in the same number as the sum total of all of the balls, and the same applies to the Blue balls since they are infinite. So the Greens are equal to the Blues which are both equal to the sum total of all of them. This absurdity proves that infinity is impossible [4]. And to conclude this contention, I will contend that since there is nothing before then Universe that can't be explained scientifically since science is defined as "Systematic knowledge of the physical or the material world gained through observation and experimentation" [5]. It would imply that there would be antecedent conditions, and since there is none of that, there must be an uncaused and personal cause. Furthermore, it must transcend time, since it must be timeless in order to create time. And lastly, it must be of enormous power if not omnipotent in order to create everything we know today from ex nihilo or well. .. nothing. I think it's good to conclude that God exists and nothing can exist on it's own without God if they would have never existed at all. Contention 2: The Bible ProphecyMy second contention will deal with prophecy from the Bible. I will be reading from either the King James Version Bible or the New King James Version Bibles. This second contention will be short this round because I have fewer characters then my first contention. I will expand on it in my next round. So, I will content that if the Bible be true, then so must be the God that it talks about. I will devote this contention on the topic of prophecy. Now I don't know about anyone else here today but if someone can predict the future then this is obvious evidence that the supernatural exists, since there is no natural explanation for the phenomena if confirmed. I will use Bible prophecy to confirm the whole thing since if it be confirmed that the people of old could do this, then there is no greater evidence for God other then seeing him face to face. So, I will begin with a Bible passage: Amos 9:11, 13: "In that day I will restore David's fallen tent. I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be,' … "The days are coming," declares the Lord, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills. "Now, of course this is speaking about the rebuilding of Israel and the restoring of it's greatness at the hieght of it's power in ancient times. That went a long time unfulfilled until in 1948 for the first time in thousands of years became an independent nation, and it is now the richest country in the middle-east [6]. Another passage Micah 4:1: "In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. "The passage speaks about the place where Solomon's temple once stood which is now the site where the Dome of the Rock stands. It is now sacred to both of the world's largest religions, Christianity and Islam (including also Judaism). These religions comprise a third of the worlds population. No other site on earth is a focal point for this many people. And I will state that Mathew 24 has a great deal of fulfilled prophecy in it. I will ask that my opponent look it up for himself since I have few character let to work with, I will just tell the things that it speaks about. it speaks about wars and rumors of wars. I tell you know that, there is no other time in history that there has been a steady stream of world wide conflict then our times. We see civil war, we see world wars, and we are hearing rumors of wars (WW3? ). It speaks of famine and I tell you that the UN has ward of a world wide food shortage in the near future [7]. It speaks of disease and that is a problem we see everyday on the news. And it speaks of Earthquakes in verious places and there is a record rise in earthquakes in everywhere from China to L. A [8]. I will expand and add more to this in later rounds, but for now I say that this is sufficient evidence to say that God exists. I will now await my opponent's response. Thank You. Sources [1]. http://www.evidencetobelieve.net...[2]http://skyserver.sdss.org...[3]http://en.wikipedia.org...[4]http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org...[5]http://dictionary.reference.com...[6]http://en.wikipedia.org...[7]http://www.guardian.co.uk...[8]http://en.wikipedia.org...