Debate: The God Debate: Does he exist?
Side: No

Throughout history, humankind has sought God. Sought to find some proof, some indication, some hope that God is or might be, and that search goes on today.Humans seeks to find a trace of God in the vastness of eternal space, they seeks some indication throughout the far reaches of the universe within the very heart of nature itself that there is, or might be, some guiding intelligence however remote, that maybe that would, perhaps be God. They seeks, and continues to seek, a trace of God, but has not yet found that trace; and yet, while humans seek and searched in vain for a trace of God, human ignorance found God; or at least, believes it found God. Human ignorance not only found God, but also has direct knowledge as to what God said and did, what God wants, what God thinks, what God likes, and what God hates.The human ignorance that found God has nothing to do with religious believers today. God, or the illusion of God, was found long ago in the childhood of the human race. Human ignorance found God long before humanity found science, long before the wheel was invented, or fire was captured and became mans friend. In that bleak cold, dangerous world stood our ancestors. Humankind was in its infancy, struggling to understand the forces of nature, to escape its enemies, to feed itself, and to reproduce its kind. The human mind was emerging from the darkness of animal instincts into the beginnings of reason. Their only thought was Survival! It was a dangerous world with enemies, everywhere; and so ignorance created faith in the face of necessity; and God was born!This God that ignorance found, or formed, looks a great deal like a man. They tell us it has a face, hands, bowels, a foot (maybe two). They tell us it has nostrils and likes to smell the burnt offerings upon the primitive altar. This God, that ignorance found or formed, also has remarkably human desires and emotions. It hates, it loves, it feels anger, and it feels compassion. It has favorite individuals, and a chosen people. This God is definitely of the male sex, and has definite male tendencies. It is often angry, easily enraged, swears, destroys things, pouts, shouts, deceives, and often rests. The God that was found by a primitive and ignorant people some thousands of years ago, just happened to have the same world outlook, and the same beliefs about nature as the people who found him. This God thought the sun revolved around the earth, and that a day could be made longer by simply stopping the sun for a while. It is truly amazing, the number of similarities there are between the beliefs of God, and the beliefs of the people who discovered God. The story that I’ve told about the discovery of God is not unique. It has happened many times, and in many different places all over the world. Whenever primitive people needed a God, they have always found a God, tailor-made. It was their own God, and always resembled them a great deal. The God always had the same enemies and the same morals, as the people who found him, and many of those Gods were authors who wrote books about their God.The very fact of this debate, or any debate about the Bible, is irrefutable proof that the Bible cannot be "the word of God."Why are some humans still a slave to such a primitive superstition and why are they afraid to think outside of the box, to question and to investigate? I say you should just set your mind free! Get up off your knees and stand upon your own two feet, raise your head, open your eyes and start to use your mind. The use of the human mind has raised us above all the other animals and has made us the master of the entire earth. The human mind and our ability to reason is the only hope we have of surviving in our modern, atomic, world. We must learn to use our minds. Once the mind is free, it will open up to reason.