God Does Not Exist

IntroductionScience has taught us much about the physical world around us. We now understand things our distant ancestors could never have even imagined. In contrast, our understanding of the divine, of God, is still in its infancy. We are like the first humans staring up at the moon, trying to comprehend that bright light in the sky. Just like our early kin in regards to the moon, we today lack the tools and knowledge needed to prove much about God. Our science is still not mature enough. However, our science is able to prove enough to definitively say that God exists; even if we can't say much more than that about the nature of that God.In this debate, I will outline what science can prove about God, and how that is enough to refute the statement that "God Does Not Exist".ScienceScience is great at showing us the truth about things we can observe, alter and manipulate. Unfortunately, for the most part God doesn't fall into one of those categories. Our science is a bad candidate for trying to understand God because God is not something we can measure. Even so, there is something important that science teaches us: that there are rules to the universe.Every day, science gives us more and more evidence that the universe has a set of rules by which everything must follow: Laws of gravity, laws of relativity, laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy; mechanical laws, laws of electromagnetism, laws of chemistry and laws of quantum mechanics. Science has found, through exhaustive testing and observation, that these laws exist and hold our universe together. Without these laws, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.Some argue that the mere existence of these universal laws is proof of God (i.e. proof from intelligent design). Though there may be some validity in that stance, I am not going to use that argument in this debate. Instead, I want to focus on what enforces these laws. This is an aspect of God I call "The Great Enforcer"The Great EnforcerImagine you are standing still. Imagine you have a rock in your hand and are holding the rock in mid-air. Now imagine you let go of the rock. If I were to ask any sane person what would happen to the rock when it is released, every one would say that it would fall. Even a little toddler would answer correctly. If you repeated the experiment again, ten times, a hundred times, a million times, each and every time the result would be the same. The rock would drop towards the earth. But why? When you let go of the rock, why does it fall? Why doesn't it go sideways, or up, or just hover there?The simple answer is because of the law of gravity, namely that objects with mass exert an attractive force on other objects with mass. The earth is pulling the rock towards itself, and the rock (in a very minor way) is pulling the earth towards itself. That sounds like a satisfactory answer at first glance. However if we look a little closer, it actually is insufficient.The law of gravity is exactly what it says it is: a law. It is merely a rule that exists, and we only know about it because we've observed it. Yet laws, rules, don't have any power on their own. They require something to enforce them. Without something to enforce the laws of the universe, the universe would be chaos. Things would happen randomly, predictions would be impossible. Yet science proves to us, time and time again, that the universe is not chaos, that the universe has rules. But, more importantly, science proves that something is enforcing those rules, with everything, in every situation, without fail. This is The Great Enforcer.An Aspect of GodThe Great Enforcer is an aspect of God. By testing the Great Enforcer against the requisite attributes of God, this will become easy to see.OmnipotenceScience shows us that the Great Enforcer is omnipotent. We have found no object that is exempt or immune to the power of the Great Enforcer. All matter and energy, everything in the entire universe is subject to the laws of the universe, and there is nothing we have found that can break these laws. The Great Enforcer has total dominion over the universe.TranscendenceScience has shown us that the Great Enforcer is transcendent. We've learned that the Great Enforcer has been enforcing the laws of the universe from the very beginning of time. There has never been a recorded or studied time in which the laws have not been enforced. The Great Enforcer holds its power throughout all of time.Similarly, the Great Enforcer has enforced laws across all of observed space. We have found no place where the Great Enforcer has not been able to enforce the laws of the universe. The Great Enforcer holds its power throughout all of space.Finally, the Great Enforcer enforces laws dictating space and laws dictating time. It also enforces relativistic laws that deal with both space and time. In order to enforce laws regarding space and time, the Great Enforcer must exist outside both. If it were affected by its own enforcing of the rules, then it would open the possibility of a gap in which it would be unable to enforce the rules in a given time or space. We have no evidence of such a gap.OmniscienceScience has shown us that the Great Enforcer is omniscient. We have found no instance of a situation or object that the Great Enforcer doesn't know about. It is impossible to fool or distract the Great Enforcer, or to hide from its power. The Great Enforcer has knowledge of everything in the universe, and thus is able to enforce the rules for all.God ExistsScience has shown us that the Great Enforcer exists; every day it gathers more proof that there is something in the universe that is enforcing universal laws. Science has shown us that there is no object, no place, no time and no situation that is not subject to the power of the Great Enforcer. The Great Enforcer has the attributes of God, is omnipotent, transient and omniscient. The Great Enforcer exists, the Great Enforcer is an aspect of God, God exists.Even if my opponent argues against the Great Enforcer meeting the criteria for one or more of the attributes of God, my opponent would still need to come up with another explanation for what the Great Enforcer is. Something that can literally control every thing in every place across all time certainly sounds like the definition of God.SummaryMy argument is as follows:P1 -> The Great Enforcer ExistsScience has given us more than ample evidence that the universe has rules and there is something that enforces those rulesP2 -> The Great Enforcer is an aspect of GodThe Great Enforcer meets the criteria for omnipotence, transience and omniscience. It has the power to enforce the rules over everything, everywhere, in every time and in every situation.C -> God ExistsIf an aspect of God exists, God exists.AfterwardAlthough science can prove the existence of the Great Enforcer, unfortunately it can't tell us anything about it. The reason is because science actually uses the existence of the Great Enforcer as one of its founding tenets. Specifically, science relies on the idea that if you perform the same actions to the same objects in the exact same situation, you will get the same result. In other words, science requires the Great Enforcer to enforce the laws of the universe the same from experiment to experiment. Without the Great Enforcer, science is meaningless. And, as the Great Enforcer is part of the basis of all science, science itself can't be used to learn more about it. This is what I meant when I said we are like the first humans, looking up at the moon. Our knowledge of reality, our science, is not mature enough to be able to get a true understanding of God. All we can know is that God exists, and from there, do our best at making guesses as to what this God is. However, to deny the existence of God, to say there isn't a force out there that has total dominion and control, is to ignore the proof science is showing us. It makes as much sense as staring up at the moon and shouting that it's not there.