azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

This wills, this abiltiy to decide is not the component, but is a direct consequence of it. There have been many names given to it, but the most common today is the word soul. We are separated from all of creation because of our soul. We posses something in us not of this world. The soul cannont be calculated into an elemental composition because it is not material. If not material than what? The soul is spiritual.If we are on earth and have an earthly body where did we receive this soul? This question implies that there is somebeing greater than this world. A being that gave us a soul. Our soul knows this and is eager to be with this Creator. Who is this Creator?This Creator must be greater than us. The pot is never greater than the potter. So we come to a god and man. Creator and creature.You're just asserting without evidence. If we have a soul, provide pictures, instrument readings, etc. Don't just assert that something exists and continue onwards. If a man is to say to another that he should not be doing something there has to be a standard moral system they are both complying to. Where did this standard come from? Why does every human civilization seem to know this basic standard of morals?Evolution shapes morality, that's also why it isn't so universal.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

I don't think you understand. You are just asserting that there is no soul. You have absolutely no evidence that there isn't. You are asking Me to do Your homework and prove to You that there is not a such thing as a soul.Through a line of reasoning i came to the conclusion that there is a soul and that there is a God.You tell me i need evidence such as pictures, instrument reading, etc., but this is not the only way you can have evidence that something exists. How many pictures have you seen of the wind? Yet through basic reasoning we can conclude that there is a such thing as wind. We know it exist because of the cause and effect it has on this world.Evolution does not shape morality. If this was so than for each part of the earth that is extremely different than the other we would have extremely different moral systems. We do not have extremely different moral system. Everywhere on earth and all time periods the same basic moral system has prevailed. It has always been wrong to kill, cheat, lie, steal, etc. This can be seen from the most ancient civilizations.And if there ever was a civilization (such as the mians) that did not follow the basic morals, there was always another group of people that either corrected them or took controll over them.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

I don't think you understand. You are just asserting that there is no soul. You have absolutely no evidence that there isn't. You are asking Me to do Your homework and prove to You that there is not a such thing as a soul.I don't have to prove anything. I am not making positive claims. You assert that there is a god and that there are souls. You made positive claims, and must therefore prove them. This is burden of proof.Through a line of reasoning i came to the conclusion that there is a soul and that there is a God.Which is no doubt fallacious as god is defined to be unable to be evidenced or proven.You tell me i need evidence such as pictures, instrument reading, etc., but this is not the only way you can have evidence that something exists. How many pictures have you seen of the wind? Yet through basic reasoning we can conclude that there is a such thing as wind. We know it exist because of the cause and effect it has on this world.The concept of god has no perceivable effect on the world. There is no evidence backing the assertion. The concept of a soul is superfluous as various fields that study the brain have deduced natural explanations for behaviours, and drugs are able to change personality.Evolution does not shape morality. If this was so than for each part of the earth that is extremely different than the other we would have extremely different moral systems. We do not have extremely different moral system. Everywhere on earth and all time periods the same basic moral system has prevailed. It has always been wrong to kill, cheat, lie, steal, etc. This can be seen from the most ancient civilizations.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_morality Try researching your claims. Also, even if evolution were inept at this task, it is not evidence for a god or souls. Positive evidence doesn't work that way unless we have a clear dichotomy, which we do not.And if there ever was a civilization (such as the mians) that did not follow the basic morals, there was always another group of people that either corrected them or took controll over them.If you study world cultures you find that societies have very different attitudes on all sorts of moral judgments. For example, South American cultures tend to be conservative towards gender roles and sexuality, while in the Nordic countries of Europe it is extremely liberal. On matters of violence and retribution the middle eastern countries foster extremely aggressive attitudes, hence honour killings and suicide bombings. On matters of stealing, each region has differing definitions (Can intellectual property be stolen? Is there a minimum value before the law enters in? What punishments are administered?). On issues of lying, cheating, and killing no two people can seem to agree, for example whether you ought to lie for a good cause, or white lie, whether you can kill in self defense or at war, and cheating has as many supporters as detractors it would seem.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

People who do not think there is a God are asking people who do to prove that there is, But I say that the evidence that God exist is overwhelming. Prove to me that God DOESN'T exist.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

People who do not think there is a God are asking people who do to prove that there is, But I say that the evidence that God exist is overwhelming. Prove to me that God DOESN'T exist.We're not here to do your homework. I say there's overwhelming evidence that gravity is a conspiracy, prove me wrong, but debate doesn't work this way.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

It's not the role of any disbeliever to disprove your claim that a god exists. That's absurd.Are you familiar with the burden of proof? If so, where is your "overwhelming evidence" of god's existence?So far, much has been asserted - nothing proved.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

I think that people who are praying at the moment might as well pray to a carten of milk. Think about it, saying your prayers at night or asking god for something will not cause that thing to happen. example: you wish to win the lottery. God is not a force that will make this happen. Religion seems to make worshipping God helpful and a "prayer being answered" was the will of god, whereas if you ask the carten of milk to give you the winning ticket would be put down to good luck.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

I think that people who are praying at the moment might as well pray to a carten of milkI think that you have no right to say that to people. I just showed this argument to my mates and we are offended beyond belief. Think about it, saying your prayers at night or asking god for something will not cause that thing to happen. example: you wish to win the lottery. God is not a force that will make this happenNo one said that would happen. If God exists (which he does) then everything has a perpose. For example: Someone died in hospital and a woman held his toes and cried out "GOD HEAL THIS MAN" - prayer. The heart beat detector thingy started bleeping again. Not only proof of God, but proof that prayer works.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

Ok, ok. The milk carten was a bad example. I thought of it because I was drinking a glass right there and then. How do we explain things that happen in other religions and the different Gods that are out there. I am familiar with three different religious people at the moment as I myself go to church, but the confusing thing is which God is real or which God grants miracles. I'm sorry if I offended people out there with my previous comment, but I've researched into this a lot and it shows that the likelihood of a God is slim.If time travel were possible or I actually met a God like figure, I would happily swallow humble pie.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

This argument against the stupidity of prayer is taken from an argument that was saying people who pray to God think their prayers are being answered. They 1) have their prayer granted. 2) have their prayer denied. Or 3) Need to keep praying. Now if i were to switch my prayer from God to the milk carten all three things can still happen. The difference being that it isn't accredited to God. It is accredited to the milk carten and in consequence coincidence.The problem is that this can be applied to anything. I normally use UPS to deliver my mail. UPS Either Delivers my mail, cannot deliver my mail, or I need to continue to wait.If i were to switch my mailing method to a milk carten, Either my mail cannot be delivered, I need to wait longer, or the milk carten by some random chance gets my mail delivered.So the argument using the milk carten does not provide an argument against the existance of God, but simply shows that people are able to give credit where it isn't due.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

The problem is that this can be applied to anything. I normally use UPS to deliver my mail. UPS Either Delivers my mail, cannot deliver my mail, or I need to continue to wait.Indeed it can. If the object you replace god with has a statistically significantly higher rate of success than the milk carton then it works. If the success rate of the milk carton and whatever you are comparing with is the same, then it's a placebo.This is the point too, praying to a milk carton or god has the same success rate, implying that prayer does not work.If i were to switch my mailing method to a milk carten, Either my mail cannot be delivered, I need to wait longer, or the milk carten by some random chance gets my mail delivered.In your example the success rate of the milk carton delivering mail is zero, the UPS method is much greater than zero. Therefore using UPS isn't a placebo.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

I see, I understand. The problem is that praying to God isn't the illusion. Believing that praying to God and a milk carton are the same thing is an illusion. The milk carton argument works because we cannot see the forces at work and i would suppose this is just another factor that helps prove your case, but whether we can see something or not should never be a factor and deciding whether somthing exists.I don't believe that God and a milk carten have the same rate of success. How often has someone prayed to a milk carton and a miracle happened? This is of course if you allow for room for miracles, but even if you don't.A lot of prayers have been answered and acredit to pray to God, that haven't had any miraculous or incredible factor to it.There has never been any incident of prayers being answered by milk cartons. The milk carton has a significantly loser sucess rate than God. By the way the argument is stated people assume that God and the milk carton have the same success rate, but this has never been proven nor tested. Almost no one if anyone at all has ever prayed to a milk carton and had sucess. Even if they had God's sucess rate is still high and stronger with a better track record, than the milk carton.Unless two people were to pray for two identical things, both praying to either the milk carton or God, over a period of time, I don't think this argument can be valid.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

I see, I understand. The problem is that praying to God isn't the illusion. Believing that praying to God and a milk carton are the same thing is an illusion. The milk carton argument works because we cannot see the forces at work and i would suppose this is just another factor that helps prove your case, but whether we can see something or not should never be a factor and deciding whether somthing exists.It's a comparative approach to determining the efficacy of prayer. It isn't anything more. We know that a milk carton doesn't answer prayers, so it is the control. If we pray to X and it has the same success rate as the control, then it doesn't answer prayers either.I don't believe that God and a milk carten have the same rate of success. How often has someone prayed to a milk carton and a miracle happened? This is of course if you allow for room for miracles, but even if you don't.You're using confirmation bias. Try praying to both, for the same things that can be easily measured, for a month. Record each prayer and effect. You praying to god will be about the same results-wise as the milk container.A lot of prayers have been answered and acredit to pray to God, that haven't had any miraculous or incredible factor to it.There has never been any incident of prayers being answered by milk cartons. This is an example of confirmation bias. Things which do nothing can have success out of pure chance, and when we remember these successes but neglect to account for the failures we get a bias. This is related to the placebo. Sugar pills can have a marked effect on some conditions because the person believes it is a real drug. The point of praying to a milk container and god is to determine the success rate of the control (the milk container, which cannot answer prayers and so any success is purely random) to the proposed god. If the results are within the same area, then we know that "god" doesn't answer prayers and the success is purely random.The milk carton has a significantly loser sucess rate than God. By the way the argument is stated people assume that God and the milk carton have the same success rate, but this has never been proven nor tested. Almost no one if anyone at all has ever prayed to a milk carton and had sucess. Even if they had God's sucess rate is still high and stronger with a better track record, than the milk carton.People pray to idols with apparent success all the time. Lucky shoes, socks, a pendant, all are attributed to success. Don't assert that god is more successful than a jug of milk, do it yourself and record the results. I may know the outcome of it, but this is something you must see yourself to believe.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

Of course you have to have a creator behind a creation. You cant have nothing create something. Doesnt make any sence. I mean everything we know beggins with something out of our control, such as our birth for christ sake.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

In my personal view, yes. But I don't believe in God as in a "merciful" deity, who we all must try to please otherwise we'll be damned to hell. I believe that's about as real as Zeus. I believe that God exist's as the universe - that God is "the circle of life", what causes birth and death, and nature, and that we are all, literally, part of God.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

Yes of course God exists. Some people say that if god exists, how come he allows bad things. we have brought this on ourselves. if we could all live in harmony, none of this would ever happen. I f pandora, and i am not dissing women, hadn't been so curious(ruled by her womanly instincts) we would be perfect and nothing could go wrong. also eve. if we didnt eat the one apple, we would not have pain and suffering
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

I don't think that human logic can prove whether or not there is a God. For example: If there is a God, and Christianity (the most believed religion in which there is a God) is true, than all of the doubters will go to Hell. If there isn't a God, then everyone dies and there is nothing better than this. People who believed there was a God will be faced with the same circumstances as the people who were right. Why would anyone take this chance in believing there is no God?!
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

The christian religion or at least the catholic religion which was the first and only christian religion founded by Jesus, does not believe that doubters will necesarily go to hell. Catholics believe the God is an understanding God and will know each individuals given circumstance. This means that if the individual didn't have the proper environment to fully understand and come to reason on God's Existence, but was still a good person, and followed his teachings(this can be done without knowing what they are just as a child mimicks it's parents without know the actual word or it's meaning.) that person has a very good chance of going to heaven.This doesn't now mean however that a person that openly disputes God just because he does not want to live that kind of lifestyle will have the same out come.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

What are you talking about???!!!! Catholicism was not founded by Jesus! Do your research before you say something like that! Catholicism was not founded until about 107 AD! The very first Christians were simply Jews who studied the prophecy of the Old Testament and when Jesus died, they became Christians; there were no denominations, these Christians were just continuing the Jewish faith. And I am also not so sure about your claims on the Catholic faith. God chooses people to believe in him, and if you are not chosen, although you have free will, it is still predetermined that you will go to Hell.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

No one is predestined to go anywhere but heaven, whether we follow this destiny depends on us. Maybe you should do some researchs because anyone who followed Jesus after he was crucified was no longer considered part of the Jewish community. The followeres of Jesus were outcasts and perscuted by leading Jewish figures. A lot of them weren't even Jews, but uncircumcised gentiles.Whether Catholicism had a name or not untill 107 AD has hardly anything at all to do with the fact that Jesus founded it. The word catholicism originates from from the Greek word Katholikos, which was later Latinizedinto Catholicus.The meaning of the word is 'Universal', which in itself means, 'of or relating to, or affectingthe entire world and all peoples therein'. It means, all encompassing,comprehensibly broad, general, and containing all that is necessary.Catholic means all people in all places, having all that is necessary, and for all time.It is also biblical (and we all know the new testament in the bible is considered a compliation of all of Jesus teachings.) It is in Matthew 28:19-20, "Go, therefore and make disciplesof all nations...teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you;And behold, I am with you all days, even unto the consummation ofthe world." That is a statement of Universality, Katholicos, Catholicus, Catholic.And before you argue that he did not say the exact word catholic keep this in mind: Language is a tool to convey meaning and understanding. Jesus didn't have to say the exact word "catholic" to say catholic. . Jesus founded christianity which was later given the name Catholicism. No where from Jesus' life time to 107 AD when it was a more organized church with a name did it change. Nor were there any other denominations that broke off from the catholic church untill around the 16th century.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

god isn't in the mind... but god is the metaphysical thing inside us the strength is god and the weakness is human.. if we questioned where we get our mental strength.. we don't get the answer and we're not creating it because it's there,, we just gotta name it... so name it god, allah, jesus, whatever... but the fact that it's there is inevitable.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

god is in the heart of a man. it depends on us whether we believe in god or not.. it is only our faith, nothing else.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

Conclusion - yes he does. He is the mighty and powerful Lord who created everything. There are, however, real scientific evidences that lead up to the fact that God is real. You may argue that he is fake, if he is real why did he put evil sides in this world, in the Bible, God allowed demons to roam around and he made HELL for them. Needless to say, demons are scared of him.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

I believe that what we believe IS the most important thing.God is metaphysical, beyond the human realm of thought and imagination, by definition.For the cynics, this means that whether He exists or not, evidence proving either will be extremely improbable."What if you're wrong?" is a common retort, focusing on time wasted believing in a personal God, and consequences. It is a valid point. But, from the other side, WHAT IF I'M RIGHT? What if there IS a heaven, and there IS a hell?Personally, I hope and believe that my life on earth consists of more than an organic accident, and that when our organs start to fail, we have more to look forward to other than decomposition and the fading out of history.Belief in this has more to offer us. And what if it is nothing, a shared, extremely large LIE?Then it is beneficial; belief in God, true belief, is better than looking for the "purpose in life"As I stated, "evidence" this and "logic" that will NOT work in this debate as well as compared to a debate about the growth rate of potatoes.The question, the one that will affect your life, is this, and you ARE free to make any choice you want:What is it that you truly want?
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

Here is an interesting analogy:Imagine you are Mario, running to the right.But just TRY and imagine (from Mario's perspective) that if he took a step TOWARDS the viewer, things would be different? He would be outside of the plane, and the inhabitants of the original dimension would have extreme difficulty understanding what the heck just happened. On the same thought, who are we to judge and make rationalizations about an omnipresent, omniscient God? We have difficult imagining the fourth dimension in mathematical terms, plain numbers and such. I say that all our arguments need a serious looking at; we say something contradicts and is inconsistent. Add another perspective, from a more sophisticated point of view. The argument crumbles, yet it isn't understood, from the smaller perspective.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

The question concerning the existence of God depends on the five most consequential questions in life.1. Where did we come from?2. Who are we?3. Why are we here?4. How should we live?5. Where are we going?One thing that must be agreed upon is that there are intellectual, emotional and volitional obstacles to both sides of the debate. A person must be willing to make a thorough investigation of the evidence with an open mind. Many suggest that only science delivers truth and deals in matters of fact while religion stays in the realm of faith. No matter your position on the existence of God, it’s virtually impossible to know everything about a particular topic, and it’s certainly impossible when that topic is an infinite God. So there has to come a point where you realize you have enough information to come to a conclusion, even if unanswered questions remain.Because we are limited human beings with limited knowledge, faith DOES have a role in this debate. The less evidence you have for your position, the more faith you need to believe it (and vice versa). Faith covers a gap in knowledge.However, it must be acknowledged that evidence alone cannot convince some people. We humans have a tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth.With this said, IS THE TRUTH REALLY KNOWABLE? I say it is. Contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.God does exist based on the following: the beginning (yes it had a beginning) of the universe; the design of the universe; the design of life; and moral law.Examine the evidence.