The Abrahamic God almost certainly does not exist.

THAT'S a consolidation? My goodness, God must be pretty darn amazing. I'm actually okay with you changing the debate resolution from the Abrahamic God in general to the one specified in the New Testament; the God who Jesus is not only the embodiment of, but the son of as well, because I generalized to the Abrahamic God because I thought of it as a courtesy to my opponent. I feel almost guilty though, because the God Con just described with Westminster's 'consolidation' is even more difficult to believe in, for it is a far worse definition by those made by modern Christian apologists and hermeneuticists. However, that statement was one to be proven, not asserted, so here I go. The Three Main Reasons the Abrahamic God Does Not Exist 1. Stupid Design Now, not intending to pre-empt the arguments from my opponent, let me simply say that the teleological arguments, or arguments from design (if something, such as a watch or a human eye, LOOKS designed, it IS designed), often forget the abhorrent design flaws in humans, the Earth, and indeed, the whole galaxy in which we reside, the Milky Way. Oh, and the universe too. That's right. The universe. Actually, let us begin with the universe, because I am nothing if not ambitious. First of all, there are two main theories of the universe after the Big Bang: It will return to its singularity and be destroyed, or it will continue expanding to the point where you won't be able to see other solar systems without a telescope. So God will either destroy the UNIVERSE, or make it so wide you will never be able to see it. [1] Moreover, excluding the Earth, and her sister Gliese 581c , there is nowhere in all of the known universe which would support human beings. Quite peculiar, considering He created the heavens and the Earth for us. Heat, cold, radiation, meteor collision, you name it. "But wait!", I hear you say, "that just proves God exists, since Earth is hospitable to life!". I'll get to Earth in a second. Ahh, the Milky Way. What a wonderful place! It holds us, after all. Too bad it's going to be destroyed. [2] The Earth. Beautiful. Magnificent. Home to, if I may be so bold to say it, the miracle of life. But alas! She is a cruel mistress. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis. Not to mention that approximately 99.9% of all life that has EVER existed in the lone known safe haven for life, is extinct. [3] Gone. Died out. Speaking of life, it only took 3.5 billion years for multicellur organisms to even appear. [4] THIS is the efficiency of an omnipotent being? And let's not forget that the Earth and all its flora and fauna were made for humans, and so how odd is it that two-thirds of it can't be lived on? And most of the third which remains is either too hot, or too cold, or too barren, or too dangerous? "Ahh!", you say, rudely interrupting once more, "that is why it is such a miracle that God made humans able to survive so well!". Did he really? Humans. The smoking gun, if you will, of stupid design. We can't detect fatal things such as poisonous gas, magnetic fields, ionizing radiation, CO, CH4, CO2, ect. We can't fly. We can't breath in water. We can't do the many things that other species do, nor can we do many things better than other animals (hearing as well as dogs, for example). I'll end this point with Christopher Hitchens' observation: "Humans have existed for about 100,000 years, at least. Prior to modern health and medicine, the average lifespan was 20-30 years. Most babies die during the first five years of life, either at birth or from diseases. Natural events like lightning storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other mysterious phenomena terrified these humans. You can imagine what it was like then, knowing nothing of how nature works." "So this god just sat there in his heavenly throne with folded arms and watched everything happen for 98,000 years before finally deciding ‘Okay, it's time to intervene.' And the best way to do that is a human scapegoating sacrifice in primitive Palestine, where the news would take so long to spread, it still hasn't reached large parts of the world". [5] Some design, huh? And some designer too. We must ask ourselves whether it a flawed God which created flawed humans, or flawed humans which created a flawed God? 2. Impossible by His Own Nature Omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent, eh? Let us see... Omnibenevolent: Faith is seen in Christianity as one of the three major virtues. [6] Assuming faith is a 'belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence', [7] it is safe to say it is a sacrifice of critical thought. Now, is this a good thing? To demand of us a sacrifice of the one thing that we here at Debate.org employ? I submit to you, it is not. Nor is he good to punish all mankind for the sins of Adam and Eve [8]. And lest we forget the commandment which tells us not to covet our neighboor's goods. What happens if we break this commandment? Well, Con's definition tells us that He is 'terrible in His judgments', so I'll leave that up to your imagination, but think about that for a moment. Terrible punishments for what you THINK! Read 1984 and tell me that is not Thoughtcrime, and then tell me God isn't awful. I could go on about all the evil that exists and how it contradicts God's very nature, but that's too easy, as well as too boring. Omniscient: This is one is simple. If God knew everything, He wouldn't have had to test the fate of Abraham [9] or Job, [10] because he would have already known how faithful they were. I could expand, but thus above is the proof from the bible itself against omniscience from God. Omnipotence: This has been attacked in a million ways but I'll put it like this: If God is omnibenevolent and omniscient, then he cannot be omnipotent, because then he would not be excused from the contradictions pointed out above. I'll close this point on the way Epicurus put it: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" [11] 3. Epistemology and Science Going past Berkeley and Descartes, and assuming we can know anything outside our consciousness, then we can know God does not exist. Why? Using the scientific method. To put it simply, let us call God's existence a hypothesis. Now, a hypothesis is true when all the evidence points to it being true, and none of the evidence points to it being false. That the Earth revolves around the Sun is not a fact, it's a hypothesis, but all the evidence points to its truth, and no evidence negates it. (or, in another way: Hypothesis: This keyboard exists. All evidence supports this hypothesis. No evidence negates its, Ergo, it is true) The same thing can be said against the God hypothesis. NO evidence has ever supported its truth, and almost all the evidence regarding claims for existence in scripture has been negated. In this way, we can know God does not exist. To summarize: 1. God is either terrible at design or very cruel to design everything as He has 2. He cannot exist as described by Con and Christian theology, because it is contradicted by both logic and empirical evidence 3. We can know God doesn't exist using the scientific method in the same way we can know anything [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#The_future_according_to_the_Big_Bang_theory [2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision [3] lassp.cornell.edu/newmme/science/extinction.html [4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution [5] atheistfreedomwall.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/god-of-suspicion/ [6] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theological_virtues [7] thefreedictionary.com/faith [8] biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3&version=NIV [9] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac [10] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job [11] thinkexist.com/quotation/is-god-willing-to-prevent-evil-but-not-able-then/411189