God probably doesn't exist.

I would just like to point out that MY OPPONENT is Pro, and I am Con. As it is one of my opponent’s first debates on this website, I would point out that since my opponent instigated, then he is the one to post the first arguments. I would now like to take this time to refute some of the arguments brought forth by my opponent. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL My opponent’s contention boils down to this: God is morally perfect. There is evil. God doesn’t stop evil. Therefore, God doesn’t exist. This is a flawed argument in the sense that God doesn’t intervene on purpose. There are several reasons for this: Firstly, God wants to wait as long as possible to allow as many people to come to him. He wants as many people as possible to repent their sins and approach God. He wants people to give Him a chance. A story exemplifying this is an atheist barber and a minister. The minister and barber are walking down the street, and they see all the suffering around them. The barber says “This is why I don’t believe in God, look at all this suffering! Why doesn’t he stop it? ” The minister doesn’t say anything. Then they come upon a homeless person, with a wild mane of hair and a far too long beard. The minister says “You must not be a very good barber, if you were a good barber you wouldn’t let people around here have that kind of hair. ” The barber is furious and says “Why blame me for what he looks like? He’s never come to my shop! If he did, I would make him look nice! ” The minster looked at the barber and said “That’s like God. If you went to God’s shop, he’d fix you up. ” [1] A second theory on why God doesn’t intervene is because it is part of his plan. His is omniscient, so he will always know what will happen. For example, a man prays that he will pass his exam and become a lawyer. He fails his exam. Why didn’t God answer his prayers? The same man later on becomes an entrepreneur, making his way up to CEO of a massive company. These are just two theories on why God doesn’t intervene. The issue with this is because we only can witness ex materia creation, not ex nihilo. We can’t take the rules for “ex materia” and then sic them to “ex nihilo”. This is incorrect. Simplified, the Kalam argument is this: If x is true, y is true. X is true. Thus, y is true. This is one of the fundamental natural laws, everything that exists has a cause. EVERYTHING. The universe is a “thing”, it is made up of planets, stars, and matter. Because the universe exists, then it has a cause. WHERE did God come from? He just existed. Before the universe, before time, before anything, God just existed. He then created the universe, and thus us. I will now move on to my own contentions. C1: RANDOM CHANCE What is the probability that we humans came into existence the way we did? What I mean is, what is the sheer chance that everything happened as it happened? What if the planets were slightly bigger? What if the particles that collided in the Big Bang slightly smaller or larger? What if a dinosaurs went extinct earlier, or later? What are the chances that we as humans, have our organs in the places we do, our mouths where they are, our bodies working the way they do, what is the chance EVERYTHING happening the way they happened? The odds are astronomical! This is also known as the teleological argument. Someone who doesn’t believe in God puts all of this down to pure chance. However, a far more logical answer is someone, or something created all of this. [2] C2: EVERYTHING HAS A MAKER A famous example of this argument is a watch. If you find a watch on the ground, you don’t know who made the watch. But you do know that SOMEBODY created the watch. What created DNA? What created the Big Bang? What created us, the way our bodies work? Certainly we are the greatest creation of all? Science has not yet found an answer to some of these questions, so the logical answer would then be God. He created everything. C3: THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT God is the most powerful thing there is. Existence is greater than non-existence. If God doesn’t exist, then there must be something that is greater than God. There isn’t. Therefore, God exists. This argument uses the simple logic of inequalities, greater than and less than. Let’s simplify this argument into numbers. God is infinite, there is no number higher. Existence is greater than non-existence, it’s like saying that 6>4, it’s true. Infinity > X. If Infinity doesn’t exist, then following the road of logic Y > Infinity. But this isn’t true, there is no number higher than Infinity. For these reasons, VOTE CON. . http://www.newchristian.org.uk... . http://www.existence-of-god.com...