God Is Real

I will first logically break up my opponents arguments. Before I start I will quote their very last line " It is faith and belief that makes a god real, not evidence or proof." p1. A strong belief in something equates in that something existing p2. People have strong beliefs in the existence of a god c. god exists To show how absurd this line of reasoning is I will present the following comparison: Many kids strongly belief in Santa. Strong belief and faith in Santa make him real. Therefore, Santa is real. Does this make sense at all? Let me go through my opponents contentions. This should be brief. 1. Faith. A term commonly coined by christians and other religious people right? "All you need is faith". However faith does not prove that god is real. Rather it proves that you believe god to be real. This debate is about the existence of god. The title is "God Is Real" not "The belief in god is Real". 2. God does not have to be proved in order to be believed in. I find this contention ridiculous and the reasoning behind it more ridiculous. I agree that many people wish there was a purpose to life. However just because you want something bigger than this life doesn't mean that the thing exists. We find more illogical reasoning here. p1. What people desire is the truth p2. People desire there to be a god c. god is truth. Again- Just because I strongly desire santa to be true doesn't mean its true. Just because I desire my dead friend to come back to life does not mean it will happen. Religion is often used as a mechanism for many to cope. My opponent has proved this through his reasoning. 3. The universe's creation. This is nothing more than the god of the gaps. We do not know what caused the big bang or for that matter what caused the beginning of everything. What caused the beginning of the universe? We don't know? Oh lets just say god did it! This is absurd and only raises more questions. What created god? What created the thing that created god? You get into an infinite loop of causes with no origin. If something as simple as our universe cannot be explained fully- then why answer the question of the origin of the universe by adding on a much more complex question by bringing in a god. It gets more complex when you bring in the christian god- who cares about your internal thoughts, your sin, what you do with your genitals. The same christian god who is all powerful and all knowing yet could not know of a better way to forgive than to come down and have himself tortured. My opponent does not provide an answer to questions that science cannot answer. Rather he fills in the gaps with god- adding only more questions to a complex issue. 4. god. This whole contention seems to argue something completely different. I do not deny the fact that people have faith. Faith is not knowledge. People can belief in magic and fairytales and god all they want. The title of this debate is God Is Real not "God is believed to be Real". I end this round with stating that my opponent totally ignored my initial first two arguments and rather than provide evidence for the existence of god which would go against my third- he simply says that proof is not needed for the existence of god. If you claim that god is real then you should prove god is real. It seems as though my opponent is unclear about his own position in this debate. An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence. Until my opponent provides that evidence- then there is no reason anyone should believe that god is real.