azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

99.9999% of the universe is completely uninhabitable, so if indeed the universe was designed for life, then it is apparently a very poor design. The universe wasn't designed for life. The argument is that the universe was designed for life here and the fact that we exist is something that needs to be explained BECAUSE the universe is so inhospitable to life.somewhere is not so much a result of divine intervention as it was a result of basic probability. Basic probability in this regards would put the emergence of life on naturalistic means at basically 0 if you accept the prior argument.I'm not making the argument that there is a multiverse, but certainly at least it seems plausible and it would lay the anthropic argument to rest. There is no more evidence for God than there is for a Mutiverse.A Multi-verse of the Gaps argument then eh? Science can't explain why the big bang would have a cause and since they don't like what it would mean they have to try to force a different theory that has no evidence to support it.Because the experiment was repeated by another chemist with conditions much more similar to those of early earth, and got largely the same results.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=primordial-soup-urey-miller-evolution-experiment-repeated Once again this is not proof of anything. Another, "It could have happened this way!" Can we just be honest with one and other and say based on the evidence no one knows how life came to be on Earth? According to?BiochemistsIf you wish to know, please visit this video which explores the process step by step.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H0RXDrfyZc&feature=related Ah the source of all knowledge, youtube.Don't bother giving me a citation that I know you got from a website, unless you physically posses this particular issue of Scientific American from 1991 which I highly doubt. What I want to know is what website you got this information from.You have a library near by, use it?It is verifiable. It has not yet been elevated to full-fledged theory yet, it has however undergone significant scientific testing and is much more scientifically supported than Intelligent Design. It is by no means the only hypothesis out there, but currently it is the most well supported explanation.If by well supported you mean virtually no evidence to suggest it could actually happen, then sure. edit I apologize also about the perceived tone above as well. I was answering your other dispute and didn't see this one and attempted to go through it quickly. As I read through this again it sounds a bit sarcastic and dismissive on my end. I'll have to properly address this at some point but I've run out of time for today :)
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

you cannot see wind or gravity..but you can detect them right? well you can detect god as well...every time a baby is born..every time a plant grows..every time a human dies..every time you breathe ask your self how am i alive? if there was no god then we would not exist..how do you think you are living every day?how do you think we were brought to this life? if you think we used to be monkeys then who created those monkeys..if you say they were small organisms then i say who made those organisms? and i can keep going forever! the answer is simple...there is a god! ;)
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

you cannot see wind or gravityBoth are measurable and testable. well you can detect god as wellIf that was true, we wouldn't be having this discussion.how do you think we were brought to this life? if you think we used to be monkeys then who created those monkeys..if you say they were small organisms then i say who made those organisms? and i can keep going forever! the answer is simple...there is a god! ;)Then who created God? The proposition of infinite regress is of no advantage to your argument. if there was no god then we would not existHuman existence can be explained without positing any sort of Deity.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

there is only one god...he created humanity...and you ask who created god? i dont think tht is the question he is god he created us...how could the one who created us be created? the creator of all! ;) that particular question is of no advantage to your argument ;)
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

If the universe needs to be created, why doesn't God? How do we explain the origin of God? The fact that you cannot answer my question tells me that my question is of advantage to my argument. If you say God has always been, then why can the universe not have always been? Does it not require fewer assumptions to say the Universe is infinite?You're just trying to explain the unknown by calling the unknown "God", but this is not an explanation as we still don't know how the universe came about. To say "God did it" gives us no greater insight into the nature of things. It discourages exploration and inquiry into the matter.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

well i have to say i haven't reached an age were i can specify how to give what i want to say and the way i say it..as a person who believes in god i decided to stick to my belief and defend it in anyway necessary but being in my age the amount of info and proves i can provide for my discussion is limited... but as for what you believe in i can say you are also trying to convince yourself that what you cant feel or see or sense does not exist...which gives us no greater insight into the nature of things just as you said... it discourages exploration and limits a person's desire to provide his own believes and standing up for them and as a closure i would like to state that i stand up on my belief and respect you for standing with yours in such a way..still you are free to believe what you want to believe and so am i...
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

While I like the enthusiasm.... there needs to be more substance to your arguments. Atheists don't respond well to... "Because God did it!" Personally I have found Lee Strobel's books, The Case For Faith and The Case For A Creator to be a pretty good starting point. I would also recommend anything that Dr. William Lane Craig has been a part of.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

i do agree on tht matter...but my arguments are not yet started...hehe i can only promise you one thing...my arguments will be even more full of substance once i get started. i truly admire your opinion and im thankful to your statement my friend :) also i say...thank you for your recommendation ;)
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

No problem! I do like to see people attempting to seek and come up with arguments. There are a lot of very smart, capable atheists that will fight everything you have to say and the only thing they seem to respond to is well-reasoned and informative arguments. Good luck on your searching and reading!
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

I believe that anything in the universe will exist depending on our degree of belief therefore anyone who believes in god he exists there is no possible evidence against it. Think of this as a twist of I think therefor I am. I think therefore it is.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

This is an utterly disgraceful misinterpretation of "I think therefore I am". When Rene Descartes proposed this idea, he was speaking of whether the "self" exists. This statement is simply saying "since I am able to think, therefore I must exist. And thus, I think therefore I am."This is by no means a way to prove that another being other than the self exists.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

Well, if you think that evolution was able to morph individual elements into life (single cell organisms, viruses, multi cell organisms, all the way to the most advanced life form of today), then I beleive you have to dig a little deeper.Certainly evolution can take human life forms and over time selectively weed out undesireable traits, but I have a hard time believing that evolution could have caused single cell to human evolution.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: let's us reason

Ok I am way too lazy to read this crap, so can I ask someone who is not lazy to sum up the best 10-15 arguments on each side and i will evaluate and correct both sides as best I can ^^.Also to note I have no intention of ever 100% proving or disproving the existence of God, that is impossible. I believe in God because I believe that the probability of his existence is high enough to warrant belief ^_^.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: Yes

Hmm. The biggie. Well, I suppose atheism is pretty logical. However, I believe God is real - but not a person. It is some scientific entity perhaps.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: Yes

May be but there is not a single way know, God is more of a figure that is known for the all knowing full potental and everything as the universe is all everything all knowing all prudocts miricles and all god is the universe god is all life death alive not alive elements and light the universe is all for god is are place
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: Yes

Well even though there is no phsyical evidence that a God exists. And even though I have previously made a statement on a similar debate about my opinion on whether Gods exist, I like to think he does because then everything doesn't seem pointless. Besides the Bible says we have to believe. You cant believe everything you see. The mind plays tricks on you. But just as well you can not not believe everything you dont. I've never seen the most top secret Government base that has no evidence of it existing but i believe it exists. Theres no hard evidence it does but I believe its there. So i like to keep my faith the he does exists just like I know that base exists. Besides whatever is on the base is powerful so if we ever were attacked, im glad its there you know.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: Yes

I believe God exists. I believe in evolution too. One of many reasons I believe in him is reproduction. It just seems too odd that life consists of reproduction, specially the first micro-organism. Did that tiny creature know it was going to die and had to reproduce so life can go on?
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: Yes

Yes of course. The mere fact that you printed the word gives life to the concept. Does beauty exists? Hatred? Love? Jealousy? Why is not god an equally believable entity. Atheism is facile and childish.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: Yes

It is up to the beholder. If someone is a believer, then God does exist.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

You know all the Athiests who say that that God doesnt exist is wrong. You can think all you want that God dosent exist but when you die you will be right in front of God and He will said you said on the Internet that God doesnt exist and He will say thats me. Then you will say I believe in you right now and then Jesus will say that its too late and He will send you to hell. Thats all I am going to say its your opion whether God exist. You will regret that you said God doesnt exist.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

Are you sure? Have you died before?Do you actually have any arguments that aren't rooted in mindlessly rehearsing what you hear every week in church? Have you ever bothered to challenge your faith?
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

No I havent died yet. But it says in the Bible that there is a Hell.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

How did I guess you were going to say that? Now on the second point:"Do you actually have any arguments that aren't rooted in mindlessly rehearsing what you hear every week in church? Have you ever bothered to challenge your faith?"Any research, logic, any rational thinking and investigation at all? Any response to the points that Bohemian and I have made calling into question the veracity of the Bible? Anything to actually make this a decent debate?
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

Yes I have challenged my faith. That God is real if He wasnt then then we would be dead and also there would be no world. It would be nothing. Its your faith to decide if He is real. Also God spoke in the Bible about and afterlife there is a Heaven and a Hell. Heaven is for people who believe in Jesus and follow his ways and do his will. Hell is a place where people go when they did wrong stuff on this earth and that includes if say that God doesnt exist.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

Okay that's little better.That God is real if He wasnt then then we would be dead and also there would be no world.Why? Why could these things not happen as a response to the laws upon which matter and energy respond to, or as a result of some unseen events outside of our current knowledge base. Why the Christian God? Also God spoke in the Bible about and afterlife there is a Heaven and a Hell. Heaven is for people who believe in Jesus and follow his ways and do his will.I understand that these words are written in the Bible. I also understand that the Bible dictated a cure for leprosy that definitely does not work, that it dictated a method for making a spotted cow that definitely does not work, that it dictates a cosmological map that is not anything like what we see when we look through telescopes, that the OT was simply a hodge podge of different writers from different times and nations and ethnicity weaving together fables from throughout the Fertile Crescent region, that Christ's teachings had a lot in common with the Mystery Cults and Buddhism, both of which came first. I know that a lot of religions say a lot of things that conflict with each other, that conflict with non-faith based observations, that serve primarily as constructs to explain the formerly unexplainable, to act as an intellectual placeholder until we started observing things better, as well as to collect power into the hands of religious leaders and serve as societal control. And why should an all knowing being care if we believe in him or not. I, personally, have a lot of love for the universe, and if God did exist, he would know that I respect his work, regardless if I believed he was responsible for it. And how are infinite punishments for finite transgressions moral, omnibenevolent?
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

What I'm saying to you is that the bible is wrong. How can you be certain, it isn't?
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

This is a circular argument. When atheists say, "God does not exist", you simply cannot argue to the contrary by quoting the Bible. The Bible, though written by man, is written under the influence of God. If God does not exist, that means that whatever has been written is not written under "His" influence. It is therefore a subjective claim, which means that one cannot claim or conclude that the statement "Hell exists" is an objective truth.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

If you cannot demonstrate that this even has the slightest possibility of being true, then why should I be afraid? I love when people threaten me with fiction...
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

@Bohemian In the Divine Revelation of Hell Jesus spoke to the person that He said my Word is true. I also have another question for you you said that everything in the Bible is wrong well I guess when Jesus is going to take his people away from this earth and leave the nonbelivers on this earth called the Rapture isnt true? And if the Bible wasnt true then there would be no earth and no humans and no God if the Bible wasnt true. And I guess when Jesus comes back on this earth to put his kingdom down its not true? All of these things will happen there is even signs happpening that its getting close to His coming.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

@Bohemian In the Divine Revelation of Hell Jesus spoke to the person that He said my Word is true.Divine revelation can only be considered true by the person receiving it, to everyone else it is hearsay. Because we were not there to see it, and because there is no evidence of it having ever occurred, we cannot be certain it is true. The more fantastical the event, the less likely it is true. In my experience, if someone is telling you of some amazing event that only they saw, there is a very good chance they are making it up or exaggerating.Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.I also have another question for you you said that everything in the Bible is wrongI didn't say everything in the bible was wrong. Even a broken clock is right two times a day. I conceded that many of the places and some of the people in the Bible were real. I contend that all of the supernatural/magical aspects of the bible are false, if not complete misrepresentations of normal events.when Jesus is going to take his people away from this earth and leave the nonbelivers on this earth called the Rapture isnt true? And I guess when Jesus comes back on this earth to put his kingdom down its not true?If the rapture was/isn't true then the above described events wouldn't occur. You're essentially asking me if you're right, would you be wrong...this is a nonsense question.All of these things will happen there is even signs happpening that its getting close to His coming.People have been saying that we are "seeing the signs, we must be close" for over a thousand years. Everybody thinks End Times is going to occur in their lifetime, just like 80% of people think they are above average drivers. It's ego.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: Yes

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Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: unknown

I hate to sound like a one-debate-topic-pony, but I must admit that the relative dearth of religious debates lately may have played a secondary contributing factor to my lower activity on this site. So I guess I must respond :)My answer- unknownThe two best methodologies for objective inquiry I know of are science and logic. Modern naturalistic science has rules about accepting unfalsifiable claims and the supernatural as answers to inquiry. This is simply due to the fact that method cannot be used to verify such claims.Logic? Well both sides have long presented logical attempts to verify their claims, but when we are talking about an all-everything being who is above and beyond every rule of the universe, it is difficult to ascertain if our understanding of logic is complete or accurate enough to make strong claims about such a being
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

Why was this down-voted I wonder?
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

This appears to be our friend's M.O. I don't think srom actually cares for debate...
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

It's Srom, who keeps downvoting everything he disagrees with.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

I agree that it is logically difficult to prove a negative, but there are many facets of evidence that dispute the existence of god. Just because someone came up with the Flying Spaghetti Monster and it is hard to prove a negative, doesn't mean FSM exists.You can look at the origins of the idea. Probably no one believes in the early gods man came up with. We take for granted that man has made up thousands of false gods for thousands of years.You can look at the beliefs themselves. Man has used gods to enforce order and morality and to explain unknown phenomenon - lightning, asteroids, comets, earthquakes, volcanoes, sickness, childbirth, etc. As humans have learned the truth behind these phenomena, the scope of god has always been diminished until we are now left with a near powerless god existing basically to kick off the big bang.You can look at the material itself for contradictions. Not only does the bible contradict all science, right down to the speed of light and answers only by saying god doesn't care about physics; It also contradicts itself on what would seem to be important issues: the order of creation, Jesus' grandfather, Jesus' last words, etc.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

Given the following: -There is no evidence for the existence of God.-There is no evidence against the existence of God.Due to the fact that there are an infinite number of false premises, and only a limited number of true premises, it is better to err on the side of skepticism. This is why the burden of proof rests on the believers. Until such time this burden of proof is satisfied, the logical position is the position of skepticism.I cannot say with absolute certainty that God does not exist, but I will live my life as if that were the case until proven otherwise.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

I cannot say with absolute certainty that God does not exist, but I will live my life as if that were the case until proven otherwise.I cannot say with absolute certainty that God exists, but I will live my life as if that were the case until proven otherwise.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

I cannot say with absolute certainty that God exists, but I will live my life as if that were the case until proven otherwise.Why? I gave a reason for why I came to my conclusion. What is your reason?
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: yes

If I were being cynical, I could say that if you don't believe, and God doesn't exist, there's no benefit. If you don't believe, and God does exist, there's potentially a lot of consequence. If you believe and God doesn't exist, there's no harm. But if you believe and God does exist, there's great benefit. But I'm not cynical. I believe in God because the universe is too beautiful and precise and harmonious to be an accident imo. I cannot say for certain. But there's this internal truth in my heart that tells me there is a higher power. And for that, I will believe until proof is given to the contrary.
Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

If I were being cynical, I could say that if you don't believe, and God doesn't exist, there's no benefit. If you don't believe, and God does exist, there's potentially a lot of consequence. If you believe and God doesn't exist, there's no harm. But if you believe and God does exist, there's great benefit.There are three major problems with Pascal's Wager.1) This is only the case if Christianity were the the only religion, and the christian God the only God to consider. It's not. There are hundreds of religions and thousands of Gods. Which effectively turns your 50:50 wager into a 1-in-a-million wager. It is just as likely that you would burn for not accepting Ahura Mazda.2) Even if we only considered the judeo-christian God, do you not think he would see through your facade of belief only for the sake of self-interest? Do you think he would grant you admittance into heaven if he knew this were the only reason you believed?3) Is it even possible to choose belief? Do you not believe only what you've been convinced is true? If asked could you spontaneously change belief?I believe in God because the universe is too beautiful and precise and harmonious to be an accident imo.Beauty is not inherent, you see things as beautiful because that is what you perceive them to be. Does the repulsiveness of maggots, cow feces, or vultures disprove God? So why would beauty prove him/it? It's a nonsense argument.Nor is the Universe as precise or as harmonious as you would like to think. 99.99999% of the universe is completely inhospitable to life and especially to humans. Stars are consumed on a regular basis, and entire planets are destroyed by such cosmic events. Radiation bombards space, sterilizing entire galaxies. Meteors reduce planets to unlivable wastelands. The vast majority of the universe we cannot even perceive. The amount of the universe we can actually see is like a single raindrop in the ocean.To say that the Universe was created for our benefit would be akin to the flea living on your cat's left testicle thinking that your city was created for it's benefit.