Atheism vs. Christianity

Thank you Dave for such a detailed response. Your knowledge on this issue is quite impressive, I also respect you for the time you must have put into ths, excellent job. Your arguments are so well written, that it will truthfully be difficult to rebut them effectively. "Logical arguments: These attempt to show the God-concept is self-contradictory or inconsistent with known facts;"I will point out that this also applies to theist arguments. The atheist belief is inconsistent with the laws of thermodynamics, which are used by the scientific community. I will discuss this more after my opponent has made his own rebuttals. "Non-Cognitivism" There is one major problem with using this argument, and that is, that when you are talking about an omnipresent, omnipotent being, this primary trait is unnecessary. If a being is all powerful, and everywhere at once, he doesn't need to have physical chracteristic traits to define him. If he is all powerful, then he is capable of changing his primary attributes. My opponent placed no limit on what, "all powerful" is, so God has no need of being composed of anything. God, by definition, does not follow any scientific laws, he follows no properties of matter, and therefore, only needs secondary attribute to exist. Looking back at my own previous arguments, recall that I made it clear that all things we can see need a reason for their existence. Keep this idea in mind. The Universe can be one of two things, a closed-system, which means that the universe is all there is, and there are no outside forces that influnce its being. The Universe could also be an open system, meaning that the Universe is being influenced by an outside force. Since I have shown that the universe needs an outside force to exist based on our own scientific laws, we must live in an open system, and God is that influence. "The fact remains that from its original form, the ANC has stood as one of the most significant threats to the Christian/Theist worldview."Mr. Jones: "God exists."Mr. White: "Prove it."Mr. Jones: "Your science says that there needs to be evidence for everything."Mr. White: "Why, yes, it does."Mr. Jones: "How are we here? Where did the matter we are made of come from? Where is did the energy that we use daily come from , sir?Mr. White: "There was a singularity, a speck, that caused the big bang, and it stored all the energy."Mr. Jones: "Your own science disagrees sir, may I ask, where did this speck come from?"Mr. White: "It.. it always was.."Mr. Jones: "The universe must be finite, according to your own laws, sir. If the universe is finite, where did all the energy come from? It must have come from something that doesn't need to follow these laws... It must have come from God. "A scientist will always have to answer where something has come from, if this is the case, then it will never end. If a scientists proves there was a singularity, then where did it come from? The answer always pushed back to a God that isn't regulated by scientific law. There is a nice story that demonstrates this, and defends my Christian faith. A young man walked into his college class, he wore a cross, the atheist professor noticed this. After the class had begun, he said, "I will show you the flaws of Christianity." The professor asked the boy whom he had saw to come forward. The boy did so, but he was very nervous. "Son, you are Christian, correct?" The professor asked. "Yes, sir." The boy said. The class listened intently. "Are you evil, son?" Asked the professor."The bible says I am, sir." The professor nodded and smiled."Ah yes, the Bible. Well son, let me ask you this: If you saw a man dying on the street, would you help him, if you could.""Yes, sir. I would do what I could." The boy responded."You had done a good deed, would you then consider yourself good? The professor asked."No, sir, I wouldn't say that." The boy responded."Is God good?" The professor asked?The boy hesitated, "y-yes, sir."The professor then asked, "Is Satan evil?""Yes." The boy answered."So if God made Satan, then that means that God made evil, right?" The boy said nothing."Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?""Yes sir, I do." The boy said, more confidently."There are five senses, can you say you have used any of those to experience you God?""No, sir. I only have my faith." The boy concluded."That is why Christianity is flawed, there is no evidence. You may sit, son."But the boy asked the professor, "Is there such a thing as darkness, no. It is a lack of the light. An absense of it. Evil is an absense of God, an absense of God's love. He didn't make it."The professor looked at the boy, stunned."Do you have a brain sir?" The boy asked."Yes, I do." The professor answered, smiling.The boy then asked the class, "Have any of you ever seen his brain? Smelt it? Touched it? Tasted it, or, heard it?"The class laughed."How do we know you have a brain professor." The boy asked."You-you just need to have faith, I suppose."Even after all the scientific evidence is put forward, you still need to remember that faith is a real thing. It is what a belief in God demands. Not scientific evidence.Thank you for reading.