God does not exist

1.) Obvious Lack of Evidence This point is why I made the debate in the first place, I have hosted debates with the same topic an abundance of times. Yet, surprisingly, I get the same answer everytime of pure nothingness. I get the same argument every time of “Well, the universe just had to be made by God, it’s so big!”. The absence of evidence for one thing is not evidence for another, let’s use this simple analogy. Let’s say a cookie is missing (the missing cookie being the answer to the creation of the universe) and we have some suspects. Todd (God) as well as his 6 brothers (scientific theories). It sounds incredibly, and rightly, stupid if one says “well, we have no evidence that the 6 brothers took the cookie; therefore Todd must’ve taken the cookie!”. You would either have to directly prove that Todd/God took the cookie with solid evidence or disprove every single major scientific theory ambiguously with no doubts whatsoever. The latter is quite difficult to do since the Big Bang theory and its counterpart the Inflationary model are indeed quite hard to disprove due to their abundance of evidence (i.e Cosmic Microwave Background, the flatness of the universe, etc.), so I’m afraid your only choice to provide solid, direct evidence for the existence of God, which is why you accepted this debate… I hope. 2.) Imperfections Now, as I understand it, God’s main purpose to it to provide a happy life for “good” human beings. Then, please, explain to me the unjust (inhumane to say the least) genocides that have taken place throughout the entirety of mankind. How can it be that millions of innocent Jews (estimates, on the lower side, include 6 million https://www.ushmm.org...) were slaughtered in the Holocaust along with Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled individuals, etc. ? Surely a God would have prevented something like this from happening? Surely I do not need to tell you the experiments Nazis conducted, the gigantic crematoriums, the starvation, the disease in these concentration camps? Here are just a few more genocides to stress my point slightly further Armenian genocide (1915) - Over a million deaths Cambodian genocide (1975) - 1.7-2 million deaths Darfur (2003, you would think we would be civil by 2003?) - 300,000 dead; 2 million displaced (http://endgenocide.org...) Native American genocide - ??? (estimates range from millions to tens of millions) [1] Then there is the bubonic plague (50 million people died; 60% of Europe’s population at that time [2] , smallpox, and all these diseases that also wiped out millions. Why would a loving God allow these diseases kill millions let alone exist in the first place? Why is that babies die at birth (even in 2014 with our technology, 23,000 babies in the U.S alone died at birth? [3] Why is it that an estimated 48.9 million people, or 19.4% of the non-institutionalized civilians, have a disability? [4] Why is that over 35% of the world’s population lack basic sanitation? (~ 2.5 Billion People; [5] Why is that roughly 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day with roughly half (1.3 billion) living in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 per day)? [6] Let's move on to imperfection about the universe. The Universe is insanely large; the observable universe alone is 13.8 Billion light years in diameter [7] Here’s a simple analogy; imagine that our entire Solar system was shrunk to the size of a grain of sand. The Milky Way Galaxy, a galaxy with a rather mediocre size, would be the size of the continental United States. Now shrink the Milky Way Galaxy down to the size of a dinner plate, the observable universe would be the size of the continental United States. That’s insanely large for a universe meant only for human beings, considering that the majority of these places we won’t be able to visit since anything outside our cluster of galaxies is receding from us faster than LIGHT. There are roughly 50 sextillion (50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) planets in our universe [8] you can’t expect to be “unique” from such vast of a number. Even if the probability that an Earth-like planets arises is something like .0000000000000001% there would still be about 50 or so Earth-like planets just like our own. Why would a God make a universe so big, knowing that we would never be able to explore practically none of it? 3.) Number of Religions Why is your own religion, that you were most likely born into by sheer luck of being conceived by a particular family, the correct one out of 4,200? [9] Why are there so many religions, each preaching the same thing; that they are the word of “God”? It’s simple really, God was a human invention with tremendous flaws, whether it be the Catholic church collecting money from indulgences [10] or a religious cult getting people to commit mass suicide, why would individuals truly following the “word of God” do such atrocities directly contradicting their own religion? Humans need comfort; whether it be what comes after death or what the answers to the world’s most difficult questions are (such as with the Ancient Greeks, in which they used Gods and Goddesses to explain nature, weather, etc.). However, if everyone had this mentality, progression would be practically nonexistent, as it nearly was prior to the scientific revolution, in which great minds finally started to take a more secular approach and question the church, leading to some of history’s most substantial steps to a more modernized and civil society. 4.) The “Holy” Bible Let's take this famous piece of holy writing which has, in my own humble opinion, singlehandedly brainwashed generations of ignorant individuals, conceived from their own ignorance. I would not be surprised to see my opponent use the Bible as evidence, in fact, I would in fact be surprised if he chose not to. However, I will show how the Bible is unreliable to the best of my abilities, although, it is quite undeniable if you look with an open mind as I have asked my opponent to do. Here I have listed 10 pages worth of contradictions, lies, injustices, etc. in the Bible that I have simply cherry picked from THOUSANDS. [https://docs.google.com...] Let that sink in for a moment, if a scientific textbook has just one undeniable error; it is recalled and replaced with corrections. Yet a scientific textbook is far less important than the Bible! Why should the Bible, which people base their whole entire lives off of, be exempt from this? It shouldn’t! Thousands of errors, yet billions still choose to follow it due to their hammered in ignorance. Yet, I guess, as the saying goes, Ignorance is bliss. Here is a select few in case the reader does not want to go to the trouble of clicking the link. GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time. GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later. GE 1:28 God encourages reproduction. LE 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin.I will now show why the Bible clearly can’t be used as evidence in a scientific debate. Here are a few self-contradictions GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness. GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day. Some scientifically inaccurate information The Genesis 1 creation account conflicts with the order of events that are known to science. In Genesis, the earth is created before light and stars, birds and whales before reptiles and insects, and flowering plants before any animals. The order of events known from science is just the opposite. 1:1-2:3 God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them? 1:3-5 "I have given you every herb ... and every tree ... for meat."Since many plants have evolved poisons to protect against animals that would like to eat them, God's advice is more than a little reckless. Would you tell your children to go out in the garden and eat whatever plants they encounter? Of course not. But then, you are much nicer and smarter than God. 1:2 All animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats, mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were created by God. 1:30 Here are some websites listing THOUSANDS of contradictions each https://infidels.org... http://bibviz.com... http://www.thethinkingatheist.com... It is evidence, as you see, that the Bible is too unreliable to be used as evidence; even if just one out of the thousands were to be indeed a contradiction, it would still be too unreliable to be the “word of God himself”. Sources: [1] - http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com... [2] - http://www.historytoday.com... [3] - https://www.cdc.gov... [4] - http://www.serviceandinclusion.org... [5] -https://www.cdc.gov... [6] - https://www.dosomething.org... [7] - https://phys.org... [8] - https://www.extremetech.com... [9] - https://en.wikipedia.org... [10] - https://www.britannica.com...