Debate: is god true?
Side: yes, god is true

Okay, I'm going to quote C. S. Lewis. It's better in context."For example, some people wrote to me saying, 'Isn't what you call the Moral Law simply our herd instinct and hasn't it been developed just like all our other instincts?' Now I do not deny that we may have a herd instinct: but that is not what I mean by the Moral Law. We all know what it feels like to be prompted by instinct - by mother love, or sexual instinct, or the instinct for food. It means you feel a strong want or desire to act in a certain way. And, of course, we sometimes do feel just that sort of desire to help another person: and no doubt that desire is due to herd instinct. But feeling a desire to help is quite different from feeling you ought to help whether you want to or not. Supposing you hear a cry for help from a man in danger. You will probably feel two desires - one a desire to help (due to your herd instinct), the other a desire to keep out of danger (due to your instinct for self-preservation). But you will find inside you, in addition to these two impulses, a third thing which tells you that you ought to follow the impulse to help, ans suppress the impulse to run away. Now this thing that judges between two instincts, that decides which should be encouraged, cannot itself be either of them. You might as well say that the sheet of music which tells you, at a given moment, to play one note on the piano and not another, is itself one of the notes on the keyboard. The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys."He goes on to talk about weaker and stronger instincts. It would be assumed that stronger instinct would win, but the Moral Law often sides with the weaker instinct. As well, we cannot call any one instinct 'good' and another 'bad.' Every instinct is good in the appropriate situation, in the appropriate amount. Equally, every instinct is bad in the inappropriate.One might say that maternal instinct is always good. but haven't you heard of over-protective mothers? They love their children so much that the children hate it, and negative effects result.Because we need something does not mean that we will have it. yes, those that have it are more likely to survive and pass it on, but how did they get it in the first place?One little note here, philosophy is technically science. Also, many philosophers aren't religious, and many scientists are. Just go to a Catholic hospital. The doctors don't just wave their hands and pray that their patients get better, they actually work to help them This requires a great deal of scientific knowledge in many cases.About God helping those who help themselves, it's fairly easy to explain. I don't know if you've had any teaching experience, but this will probably be understandable even if you haven't.I help teach a second grade class, and the floors are not carpeted. Because the floors are not carpeted, the chairs and desks have tennis balls on their legs to stop them from scuffing the floor. The problem is, these tennis balls fall off very easily.Student A: A tennis ball falls off of her chair, and she immediately works to put it back on. However, she finds it very difficult and is struggling.Student B: A tennis ball falls off his chair and he completely ignores it.Student C: He purposely pops off the tennis balls and complains that he can't get them back on.Student D: He purposely pops off the tennis balls and struggles to get them back on.Student E: The tennis ball falls off and he (without trying) says "I can't do it, help me." (at this age, "help me" means "Do it for me") When told to try, he continues saying variations "I can't do it, do it for me!"Who are you most inclined to help? Student A, of course, who is trying and struggling.Student D is iffy, because he's the one who made the problem in the first place, but the fact that he's at least trying makes me inclined to help him.In the case of Student C, it's his own fault and he should at least try to fix it. I'm not going to help unless he stops complaining and tries.Student B should not just ignore it, and I would tell him to put the tennis ball back on. Whether he complains or struggles puts him in the place of either Student D or C.Student E (is very frustrating in many situations) I will not help unless he tries. He tends top throw temper tantrums because I do not help him, and this gets him into trouble.Now do you understand the "God helps those who help themselves"?About Mother Theresa and rich folk, this is also fairly simple. It is not about an heir of saintliness. It is what is given in relation to the giver. Yeah, Bill Gates may have helped more people, but Mother Theresa still gave more, regardless of numbers.Look at it this way. There's a billionaire and someone who's working at McDonald's for a living. The billionaire donates a million dollars to the poor, but still has a few billion left for himself. The person working at McDonald's gives a hundred dollars to the poor, and can barely afford to feed himself. Then the McDonald's worker continues donating to the poor even when he can't afford it, whereas the billionaire says "Okay, that's off the check-list, maybe another million in a few years just to keep people happy." Who was the better person?Faith is not in any way a hindrance. Give me an example of when faith is a hindrance.All religious at some point doubt, and this makes us stronger.I believe that the most religious people are converts, not people who, like me, were raised in this faith.C. S. Lewis was once an atheist. Sean Forrest has been a part of just about every faith there is in his search for the truth, and has come to believe that Catholicism is the truth, and now preaches it. St. Paul originally captured and killed Christians in the horrible ways they did back then, but converted so fully that he is now a saint (He went from utter hatred to utter adoration when God struck him blind and spoke to him. God later returns his sight.). There are many others as well.God always answers prayers, just not always in the way we expect. He has done great things, even for immediate problems, in this very age. He worked through Blessed Pope John Paul II and caused a girl to re-grow a bladder, among other things. God saved my teacher's life when his car was almost hit by a semi. He suddenly lost a wheel and ended up in a land that should have had oncoming traffic, but there was suddenly none. If that is not an immediate problem, do tell me what is.I do not equate science with randomness. I said that it is not random, and because it is not random, someone must have made it be not random. No random chance could have created something that is not random chance. Because, even though the whole of reality is not random chance, the appearance of reality must have either been random chance or created intelligently.And God is not a thing. There is no such thing as God, because God is a pure Who, not a what. God exists, and has no limits. Everything in the universe has limits, and these limits defy the fact that something must have come into existence from nothing for the universe (limits and all) to exist. This thing appearing on its own would defy its own limits, and thus must have been created by someone without limits. As God is not a thing, He does not have the limits of a thing.