azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

I believe in a Supernatural God. I believe that He loves us and wants to reach us to get us to heaven. My argument starts from a fundamental premise of existential uncertainty. For, given my premise, and assuming the best, I have shown that a God exists. I have shown that if you believe God doesn’t exist, then you are certain to go to Hell. But if you believe God does exist, then my argument gives a reason to believe in Him and His love for us, which is what any loving God would want. We all know that we exist. We can use the five senses to prove to ourselves that we exist. One of the ways that we can use our sense to validate the world around us is touch. Touching things like a marble floor or the leaves on the trees just outside the front door can lead us to believe that we are real and the world around us is real. We base our sciences on the five senses as they are the tools that lead us to understand the world around us through experiments. We have named that very practice Observational Science. A fundamental law in the physics realm that we have discovered using Observational Science states that matter cannot be created or destroyed. It only takes a different form. For example, when you burn wood in a fireplace, the wood is not disappearing, but turning into oxygen, carbon dioxide, and many other gaseous chemicals. We can also apply this principle to origins. What we have discovered regarding the Conservation of Matter contradicts that of what we have speculated through Historical Science: The spontaneous creation of the universe as a result of the Big Bang. All throughout history science and theory have been changing as a result of new discoveries that either prove or disprove a certain hypothesis, but the one thing that seems to stick throughout all the contradictions is The Big Bang Theory. If The Big Bang Theory cannot explain things like how the universe was created if matter cannot be created or destroyed or the faint sun paradox, then why aren't we discarding it and looking for another solution to the issue of origins? This is what leads me to the existential uncertainty part that makes my argument unique and strong. Evolution argues that we are all just animals that have evolved slowly over millions of years. Our species came out on top as a result of what many secular scientists call Natural Selection. If we came out on top when we allegedly emerged from Africa, then why is there still more powerful animals out there like gorillas and lions that could easily wipe out a human? Our existential crisis lies there. The lions and gorillas should have wiped out the human race assuming we were a more primitive and less evolved species back in that time period.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

People generally want to make themselves feel significant, and by believing there is a god, it is much easier to say that our lives have meaning. Although having faith may bring peace to personal lives, it brings along with it severe problems such as segregation. The way we define culture is based on religion(vice-versa) and without religion the world would undergo far less human-led catastrophes(Hitler?)
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Not true. I dont believe in God to feel good but because I know there is a God and has searched for a God and has found him. I dont just fake belief in God but want to have a good relationship with God. God is proven true through his son Jesus.There is truth out there but you cant just disregard truth based on what you feel is True. You just need more truth and better reasoning and may want to consider to search for a God. Because if you play the game "oh maybe God is real" then your playing a dangerous game. Because if God is real and you havent gotten Right with God through his son then your going to Hell. A Righteous God must send all Unrighteous to Hell. You can only be justified through his son. If you really care about the truth then you will really search for God sincerely.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

"A Righteous God must send all Unrighteous to Hell.""unrighteous", according to dictionary.com, by definition, is:"not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil"A Greek named Epicurus once said:"If God is willing but unable to prevent evil,Then he is not omnipotent.If god is able but not willing,Then he is malevolent.If he is both willing and able,From whence comes evil?If he is neither willing nor able,Then why call him God?"If your God is righteous then why hasn't evil been abolished?
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

If God prevents all evils, then certainly you should not be rewarded after your life. A person who believes in God believes in life after death, a life which never ends. And Surely, all Unrighteous will be sent to hell.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Couldn't God bring his children to heaven just because He loves them rather than as a reward?
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

You are on your way to Hell where all evil will be confined. God is giving you time because He wants you to be saved from Hell, but you are going to make your bad mouth be heard until your words are drowned in the fire, aren't you?
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

"If your God is righteous then why hasn't evil been abolished?"God created the universe as a perfect place, but Adam and Eve fell into sin. God gave everyone free will. In other words, He gave us a choice. We tend to choose evil over all other things. We are immoral, sinful beings that need a Saviour. God gave us a choice so that He would be worshipped by truly willing beings. It makes glory all the more amazing. You are blinded by your bias thinking and that will, sadly, get you ended up in Hell.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Are you righteous?If no, then probably you would abolish.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Tottally agree, it gives false sense of belonging to something bigger than just being a piece of meet, blood and bones that have to reproduce and than live happily until they dissapear.There are other psychological, socialogical and practical reasons why religions came to be, but most of those have disappeared as the society/civilisation has advanced. I firmly believe that at a certain level of society development, religion was practical thing to have, but as a tool it lost its purpose when society moved on and created more sofisticated tools due to more collected knowledge, experience and applied logical reasoning.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

Im gonna refute some common arguments:1. T: If there is no God how was the universe created?A: I don't know, but you choose to jump to a conclusion instead of waiting for a better answer. Also, how was god created? Also, I could use this same argument to "prove" Santa created the universe.T: He's eternal, he was always there.A: I could use the same to state why the universe is here.2. T: If there is no God, how do we get our morals?A: Morals come from evolution, as a human who doesn't harm other human beings will overall increase reproduction. Also I could use this argument to justify why Santa is an almighty creator.3. T: Life is so incredibly unlikely how could you not believe in a intelligent designer?A: Life is not unlikely, as the universe is so huge, and theres been so much time, its definitely wouldn't be a stretch to say that the universe would have life.4. T: So many people believe in god though!A: Basically the whole world believed the earth was flat at one point. People in North Korea think that their country is the best country. Bad argument.5. T: The universe is so complex, it entails a god.The universe being complex is a human opinion, to another life form it could be simple, and boring, to another amazing, and unimaginable.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

1) If Santa created the universe, then Santa would be God??? Plus, do not throw out any solution too quickly. I could say that the best way to get to space would be to be launched into space via a nuclear bomb. You would have to explain why that would not work.God is eternal because God created time. You have to explain how time began. Otherwise, the universe cannot be eternal, otherwise, I would conclude infinte time passed.2) That does not explain a lot of morals. Plus, why is increasing reproduction good or bad? Plus, if Santa created the universe, then Santa would be God???3) Fun Fact: If you needed to get correct a 100-digit password to get life, the chances of you reaching that even with the size of the observable universe and several billion year universe lifespan, chances are you're not going to guess the password right. The question that people often ignore is how likely is life? Even scientists do not know the answer to that question.4) To be fair, that is a bad argument.5) Complexity is not a human opinion. It is like the difference between a pure black screen and the Mona Lisa. A pure black screen contains low complexity and can be easily compressed, whereas the Mona Lisa has a much higher complexity and cannot be as easily compressed. It is not subjective.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

If Santa created the universe, then Santa would be God??? You will find that several people have reduced the definition of God to be just whatever created the universe.Some use even less.That does not explain a lot of moralsYes, evolution is a good explanation of how our morals arose - groups could outperform individuals but required trust, cooperation, etc.Evolution better explains our blend of cooperation and competition than a morality derived from an all-good, loving god.100-digit passwordIf I throw a bucket of sand up in the air and then try to calculate the odds that each grain of sand would land exactly when and where it did - at what digit number would we conclude that I never threw the bucket?Complexity is not a human opinion.Complexity alone is subjective - relative complexity, like you are referring to, can be determined.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Yes, evolution is a good explanation of how our morals arose - groups could outperform individuals but required trust, cooperation, etc. Naïve evolutionists think that everything evolved because it benefits survival. This is simply false. The reason is deeply rooted in biology and is called inclusive fitness, or fitness in relation to others. It can be explained like this:Human females preferentially choose a mate who shows evidence of health and good genetic quality. A primate with strong, muscular arms, teeth, and feet is a more attractive mate.If a primate has offspring, each offspring receives half the genes from the male and half the genes from the female. Biologists call this passing on genes from parent to offspring.Thus offspring can receive genes from their father that make them healthy and well-adapted for living, passing genes to their offspring, but they can also inherit genes from their mother that make them sickly and maladapted.The fittest offspring will survive and pass their genes on to the next generation, whereas the sickly and maladapted offspring will die, which cancels out their passing their genes on to the next generation.The moral argument for evolution is not about selfish genes. It is about altruistic genes. The genes that allow for a person to take care of his children and make sacrifices to raise them, which are the same kind of genes that allow a person to protect the weak and helpless.Inclusive fitness describes genes that promote survival, health, and reproductive success in relation to others. Morals are necessary for groups to operate effectively.Evolution better explains our blend of cooperation and competition than a morality derived from an all-good, loving god. Morality, as we use the concept, could not have resulted from the process of natural selection. Natural selection did not create the higher order processing that allows us to reason about justice, mercy, right and wrong, or about the kinds of complex emotions that lead to moral judgments and prosocial behavior. The biological mechanisms required for such reasoning are qualitatively different from mechanisms like vision, hearing, or digestion.If I throw a bucket of sand up in the air and then try to calculate the odds that each grain of sand would land exactly when and where it did - at what digit number would we conclude that I never threw the bucket?  Accepting the conclusion (never threw the bucket) is one that derilects the evidence (the way each grain of sand is randomly distributed in mid-air). The odds of each individual grain of sand landing exactly as it was intended to when it escaped the bucket, given the evidence, is one.Complexity alone is subjectiveNaïve evolutionists believe that every evolutionary phenomenon occurred through random mutations which transformed species or trait frequencies (or which inhibited or increased some harmful or beneficial trait). However, this is not the case. Evolution has not occurred simply through the accidental accumulation over time of random mutations in our genomes.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Not a scientist, eh? We know the universe did not arise by natural means out of nothing due up the 1st Law of Thermo and that the universe is not eternal due to the 2nd Law. It is not your ignorance that is the problem, but your anti-science naturalism.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

God represents a way to live life. If there was no God then there would be no reason for people to not do whatever they want. Yes there would be rules and such in the framework of our government. But internally speaking, there would be no need to follow such rules. A world without God is no world indeed.As for the problems for segregation, well you're just basing it off of certain individuals who chose for themselves to pervert the foundational value of their "religion", those who use religion as an excuse. They don't represent the whole of religion. It's more about the interpersonal relationship with God and oneself.As for the Hitler comment, well he was just a corrupted individual. I'm pretty sure there are corrupted atheists too like Mao Ze Dong, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. Religion doesn't define a person, it's ones individual morals that define him/her self. No individual person is a representation of their whole entire faith, that's just silly and absurd.Actually the foundational theme in just about all religion is to love each other. In one sense, religion can just be another way for living out their moral code. Just how you carry it out is a different matter.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Christianity does not serve to make one feel significant, but humble oneself. It brings meaning and clarity to an otherwise pointless life. Religion brings peace where it can, but it must bring seperation, however this and the other disasters would happen regardless.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

You put it perfetly. Jesus Christ told us to humble ourselves before his father. So that eliminates the argument of "faith is only here to make people feel significant" right there. :D
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

So does that prove anything? we are here to present evidences on whether God is true or not, We are not talking about the "affects" of religion. Based on your opinion about segregation, yes its true but does it affect the so-called "Ultimate Truth".
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

this does nothing to disprove the existence of a god. an explanation for why such a concept may have been created does not disprove the god.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

You don't seem to understand God, or people, or regimes, or war, or religion.As far as wars it's not true of motivation if you think Hitler was inspired by religion. Just because He isolated an idea and phrase thar had an appearance of religion. It was done so for greed and power and hate. There is no where in the New Testaments where Jesus or His followers command or even suggest murder.And there is a time for peace and a time for war. So the Christian response was to sacrafice our lives to stop Hitler and the atrocities.So if you want to blame defending the innocent that can't help themselves, then YES religion does cause war. But religion didn't come through Hitler evil regime, it came from a Christian people Clothed in compassion, and with the force of defending those who couldn't defend themselves.Same with the Civil War! Blame it on Christians to not sit back while others were trampled on. Instead over 300,000 people from the North lost their lives or were injured. Over 300,000 gave up someone they loved to help others. They gave up a parent of young children, a spouse in a young family, they gave up physical wholeness in the name of religion. You are absolutely correct! But let me ask you, what if they didn't?
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

The Truth us God.Does The Truth make you feel significant or does it reveal just how tiny you are in the grand scheme of things?The idea that you can keep people from naturally segregating themselves is preposterous. The idea that you can do away with religion is also a fantasy.You know what else would end segregation, religion, and human led catastrophe?Wiping out all of humanity in one movement. No, God is The Truth, and that means if you love God you love The Truth. If you love The Truth, it should be evident that we all fall short and have been shown much charity. Pass it on, show some charity. Love eachother.And that is true religion right there.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

That is funny given the sheer volume of murderers committed by atheists in the last 100 years.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

If one really think about it, having a God as an ultimate creator of universe is actually just shifting the problem one step further. If anything that exists has to have a creator, than who created a God. If God does not need a reason to exist, than there is no difference to say that universe does not need a reason (creator) to exist. Those two claims are equivalent and question is which one can accept as an axiom from which to derive the rest of reasoning.Way to freaking go, that is something I've been trying to explain for a while.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

We seem to be logical beings evovled into what we are in a material universe where everything has cause and consequence. As such we tend to fill in all gaps and holes or our knowledge the best way we can based on our experience of that universe. God as explanation is easy (and trivial) one that gives answer on many problems which we are/were anable to unswer. People believed that Sun is circling around the Earth, and that Earth is a disk from which one could fall down. There is no difference in other matters, albeit certain one are probably impossible to answer since we can't get physical evidence to support any of theories (such as if there is God or not). Also religion has offered a simple trivial answers about world which maybe were needed in a certain period of human history. Today there are much better answers and no need to rely on dogmatic dictatorship such as religion offer.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

An actually very lame argument considering the universe is physical, and therefore has to obey physical laws that would be broken by an evolutionary explanation.God, on the other hand, is immaterial, and therefore is not bound by physical laws such as a regress.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

There's no nice way to say it, this is stupid. If the universe were eternal, it would break down through entropy. It must have had a beginning as it is undergoing entropy, the entropy started at a point in time........and it wasn't the stupid singularity which was nothing but it exploded and tuned into you. The Bible answered this stupidity 2000 years ago......."they worship and serve the creature (created thing) rather than the creator". You're trying to equate the universe with God, the created thing with the creator. There is no comparison.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

If the universe were eternal, it would break down through entropy. Not really, Mr. Saint. The 2nd law of Thermodynamics to which you are referring applies ONLY to closed systems. Which the Universe decidedly is not. And besides, that 2nd Law does NOT claim that closed systems will "break down" totally. No...it only posits that the rate of entropy will increase over time, if no new order or energy is infused into the system.But as I said, the Universe is NOT closed, and with Supernovas exploding and also with Dark Energy, it seemingly is armed with additional power sources and order-giving parameters all the time.It must have had a beginning as it is undergoing entropy, the entropy started at a point in time........and it wasn't the stupid singularity which was nothing but it exploded and tuned into you."Must" have had a beginning? Who says? It could be eternal. It is just that out limited minds are incapable of grasping the notion of eternal or or infinity, as we have zero experience with either term.And the singularity was not "nothing." if it existed that is. It was an infinitesimally small but unimaginably power-laden point of energy and heat. So much energy that if it were the size of the Earth, an equivalent of one grain of sand on that Earth would be more power than has been unleashed by man in ALL the wars, bombs, cars rockets, machines, etc. over the history of the Earth.The Bible answered this stupidity 2000 years ago.Sorry, the bible is a collection of Hebrew mythology and stories and poetry and allegory that does not even ADDRESS the issue of Cosmology, let alone answer it. (I discount the book of Genesis, obviously, as I believe it to be a purely allegorical tale meant to remind its audience of the sanctity of the Sabbath while they were in Babylonian captivity and losing sight of their traditions.)You're trying to equate the universe with God, the created thing with the creator. There is no comparison.I am not trying to do that at all. Since I do not believe in god. But you are right in claiming no comparison. As the known Universe and its attendant Laws of Physics and Thermodynamics are quite real and provable, while your god is neither of those things.SS
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

Your argument is self-contradictory since without God, logic and reason don't make sense. Why? because you can't empirically test them without using them, which is circular reasoning, therefore you argument is ludicrous
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Atheism

Could not have put it better. We don't understand all the laws of the universe and energy but that means we haven't worked them out yet. May be human beings can never explain all things. Yes some people may attribute unknown and undiscovered laws of energy or the universe to god, they can also blame the fairies. It is creative and imaginative and a very human response to unknown dilemmas and questions. The questions you pose about god cannot be answered because all religions are based on faith. Why do we need this? to reassure ourselves because many people cannot face up to the fact that they are just another animal species and part of a natural process that will start and finish.
Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

If you want to be an animal, then by all means be an animal. That means you are no better than the turkey I ate on Thanksgiving day. I'm a man, made in the image of God. You can be a turkey if you want to.