azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

"First of all, I would rather believe that there is a creator, then that everything happened by chance."If one follows where the evidence leads, we see a planet and universe that is diametrically opposed to design or hyperagency, one that is probably devoid of divine touch and one that is very, very much a natural phenomenon contingent on natural processes.But consider for a moment what you state here. You would "rather". For you, it's a matter of preference and not a matter of what accurately explains and accounts for the world around us. You want to exist in the comfort of tradition and the safety of ignorance in the same way that a young child might ignore the fact that he or she is devoid of companionship because they would prefer to remain in the comfort of their imaginary friendship with their imaginary friend."It doesn't make sense to say that if you look at a car, that somehow everything crashed together and made a car that RUNS."You're absolutely right. And we can demonstrate precisely why that wouldn't make sense. We use artificial designs to produce and manufacture artificial objects called cars that exist to serve a specific human purpose. And we can demonstrate to you how that car was precisely built, we can even show you the philosophy of transportation leading to the development of the car, we can even take you to a manufacturing plant and watch humans and other robots assemble the car for you if you want. But the universe and the planet earth are not cars.The universe is a product of elemental forces acting upon one another. It might seem very complex, but it's just a combination of simple interactions overlapping with one another in various ways."This "powerful being" already thought of that and gave us a book that he inspired called the bible. "And many Biblical scholars can attest to the fact that the Bible more than likely isn't the product of divine revelation or divine production. In fact, because of the various writing styles in the Bible, Biblical scholars know almost unequivocally that many of the books in the Bible have multiple authors from various cultural sources over varying periods of time. The Bible is folklore."He gave it to us so that we could know more about him"And we can be fairly certain that this is wrong - insofar as reality and the history of human life is concerned. But I recognize that this is what you would "Rather believe". This is your preference. It has little to do with reality or human history. This is what you would like to believe. But there is nothing objectively or ontologically true about your beliefs, and god-belief tends to oppose reality and transforms the worldview of many into something unreal and unrepresentative of how the world and the universe really works. And this is precisely why you have to "rather believe" it. And I won't knock you for it.But god doesn't exist. And any complex definition of god, as Paul Tillich would conclude, is simple idolatry and revokes the divine status of god, transforming that status into a very pedantically human entity absolutely devoid of its uniqueness.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

Bibledefendy"It doesn't make sense to say that if you look at a car, that somehow everything crashed together and made a car that RUNS."It is ironic that you say this. We are saying the same thing.It doesn't make sense to say that if you look at a creator, that somehow everything crashed together and made a creator that CREATES.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

What evidence is there that everything didnt happen by chance? Dont things happen to people by chance every day, or is everything that happens, good or bad, God's plan? Though i do realize that it "feels" good to think that there is a creator than that everything happened by chance, whether or not the former is true is always up for debate. I am currently in a battle within myself, especially after reading Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, even though it is a totally deistic view of religion. The FACT is, God didnt give us a book called the Bible, the Catholic church found the Books in the Bible and decided which books would be called the Word of God, with no chance of debating the actual existence of such a thing.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

Couldn't of said it better myself.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

In the car analogy, "crashing" together is instantaneous.It took literally trillions of years for our universe to become the way it is and throughout that time things have gradually developed. Human life didn't spawn out of nowhere, that's what YOU believe, that man was crushed from dirt, if you actually believe Genesis. What science actually supposes is that multiple forms of life exist down to the simplest level, we've recorded and documented the process of evolution in current years, there are fossils that point exhaustively at a common ancestor, and that life gradually developed up to our level, each predecessor and prototype sustaining itself.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

I believe in God.. as we can simply see today it was to simple to say you don't believe in God because of the matter that you never saw him!!!!! yet i am telling you... how can you ask if there really is God? it only indicates that deep within you there sis ca triggering factor that you still have faith in the Supreme being
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

it is left over from when we had no answers to these questions so we made answers up. the idea of a god was around long before the bible - were those gods all made up?? - then why not one more
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

YES!! why are we always losing these things. i have aswered the debate topic. yes. i have just reaffirmed my position
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

The face of a newborn child is the only evidence you need to prove the existence of a wonderful, powerful God who blesses us all.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

Good point, aside from the fact that the scientific theory of evolution provides another reasonable explanation.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

The theory of evolution hardly disproves the existence of a God.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

While that may be true, consider the theory of natural selection. It's easy to hypothesize that humans that find the faces of newborns to be fascinating and adorable will spend more time nuturing and caring for the infants. Better cared for infants are more likely to survive and pass on those genes, leading to more humans who find babies' faces mysteriously awe-inspiring.That seems like a simpler and more logical explanation for why the faces of babies are so compelling than having to manufacture a supernatural deity, creation myth, etc.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

The theory of religion hardly disproves evolution.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

Evolution is a fact. I think you mean 'natural selection' which is a theory put forward to explain how it works.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

It's not the role of science to disprove the existence of any god. That kind of logical absurdity is typical of religionists. The onus is squarely on those who claim that a god exists.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

More reasonable. There's evidence for evolution, but none for God.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

nature (and natural occurrences) proving the existence of god is a completely bogus argument. When the Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophers were pondering God's existence not once did they attend to the level of 'proven-by-nature.' There is no true rationale behind it! If you could causally link the face of a newborn child to the existence of an omnipotent god that somehow manages to escape all access in this universe...then you would be a flying pig :P
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

If you are a creationalist, please spare me the rebuttal.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

That is a really good point. The "proven-by-nature" argument is about as airtight as creationalism.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

Prophecy: bible predictions 2000 years ago. Israel will become a nation again. Israel will be hated by all nations. Europe, revived roman empire, to be the final world government. EU gives rise to Antichrist, who will come out of Spain (10th nation of EU) and form a peace contract with Israel for 7 years. 666: mark of the Antichrist - a biometric identification system that will facilitate commerce. Increase in technology, earthquakes, transportation all in association with Israel becoming a nation. Check out http://www.jvim.com/ for amazing biblical prophecy.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

Ok, so the Bible says the descendants of the Israelis will reunite. That one happened. But the other predictions are just absurd."Europe, revived roman empire, to be the final world government. EU gives rise to Antichrist, who will come out of Spain (10th nation of EU) and form a peace contract with Israel for 7 years."How is Europe the revived Roman Empire? Even if we pretend that it is, there's no way Europe is going to take over the entire world."666: mark of the Antichrist - a biometric identification system that will facilitate commerce."Seriously? I can't believe people up-voted this crap.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Of Course God Is Real

If anything could prove the existence of God beyond a doubt, it is love. If we were only evolutions of animals, we wouldn't be capable of love. We wouldn't be capable of sacrificing ourselves for those we love.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

Love can be explained biologically, no God required.Note that this does not make it any less beautiful.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Of Course God Is Real

"Blessed more are those who have not seen and still believe."[:
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

With that kind of logic you could pretend like anything you want really exists. You could pretend that you will find a hundred dollars every day for the rest of your life based on no evidence at all, but that wouldn't make it happen.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

When in sexual arousal the body releases phenylethylamines, these produce the feeling of love. Love can easily be explained by science through biology and chemistry, that might sound cold, but I don't believe it makes it any less beautiful.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

That's not it at all. Emotions are completely natural, animals show compassion all the time, this is why you dog licks you and why you don't fk with a bear's cubs. What does the existence of a creator have to do with the possibility of love? That's such a random association.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Of Course God Is Real

I am totally lost with this one. i dont really know what to believe in sometimes. i think that there is so much going on to say the existance of god exists that what real evidence do we have that says that god doesnt exist? maybe all the different types of religion are scattered everywhere but if you join them all together then you will see that all religions are all going on about the one god in the end making that to have this many followers, it sort of says that god does exist in his own way
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

I do believe in God and have experienced Him in my life! A year ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer, basically I was given a year to live, it was considered terminal. Well, I have been healed by the power of Jesus Christ, three months ago I was divinely healed in Lakeland Florida. I went because I had heard that people were being healed at this revival and I didn't have any other options so I went to worship God, and the pastor literally said someone here has stomach cancer and needs to come up here, so I waited and waited and I knew in my heart, I could feel the burning in my spirit that it was me he was talking about so I made my way up to the stage. He came up to me and said in the name of JESUS be healed and without even touching me I fell back on the ground literally slain in the Spirit and it was like my stomach was a wave pool, like a washing machine . . . so I come back to TN and go to the doctor and there is no cancer anywhere, I just wanted to add this to the debate because miracles like this need to be known and accounted for. I know that God exists and that there is power in the name of Jesus that there is healing in His name and He is good!!!!
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

Great story, unfortunately in this setting it is meaningless without evidence. Christians often use emotionally charged stories of miraculous recoveries because people are too afraid to ask for the evidence.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

ask yourself, how did humans existed in this world? It is very impossible that without any creator, people would exist in this world. A pair of cells is needed in order to produce a new living thing.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

all humans existed becoz of the improved science and moder techniques.........its true that it is very impossible without any creator, people would exist in this world but I say that it is SCIENCE the creator
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

every time we try to assign to god some specific act, science comes along and shows plausible ways it could happen without god. The Miller Urey experiments of the 1950s showed you could take elements present in the early stages of earth and apply electricity to simulate static electricity/lightning - the result was amino acids and oganic compounds. the fact that inorganic can turn into organic and that better and more complex beings can come from lesser beings are both easily observable and all that is necessary for evolution to explain our existence.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

of course. Looking around us we see things that cant be explained away by futile theories created by people to fill the void in their life.Take Yellowstone. Travel there, walk around and tell me if it takes more faith to believe that it was a random act of evolution or a planned act of an all-powerful God.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Of Course God Is Real

Of course I believe in the Lord. How else could we have possibly been created. I also believe that yes animals have evolved but they were put on the earth by God. Such as humans were.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

I do believe in God I was brought up with it and I'd like to think that there is a chance that something happens to me ... not just in a dark abyss or something.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

The evidence of God's existence is all around us: You, Me, Life the World, the Universe. There is no way science can explain how something can just come into existence out of nothing. The Big Bang Theory? Where did that little ball of matter that exploded come from? How did it come to be? There is no way to explain the existence of everything in the universe without God or some sort of higher power. In science, one has to know how to explain something, but we don't have to understand God. One must just have faith. The existence of God is what makes sense to show where everything came from, while science does not makes sense in this subject. Why did we come to be? What causes us to have morals? Do you really want to believe that your mind, body, spirit, and whole being are just a random collection of matter, that you mean nothing. I don't know about you, but that is such a grim thought to me.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

You, Me, Life the World, the Universe is proof of You, Me, Life the World, the Universe - not god."Where did that little ball of matter that exploded come from" - god only shifts the question to where did god come from. if god is allowed to exist forever, then why wouldn't something simpler.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

evolution more aptly explains the morals that we have than god. competition is better explained by competition by groups for resources than a god that says thou shalt not covet, and love thy neighbor as thyself
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

i think so because if you dont what will you bieleve in.The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

I believe in my god Jesus Christ, because there is proof of him being here on earth. Not because of the Bible,. Because the simple fact that explores and scientist found proof.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

There is less historical evidence for Jesus Christ than for Robin hood. The scrolls that date before the year 384 after Christ (when the modern bible was formed for political reasons) - describe yoshua (meaning savior in Aramaic, and not a mans name) as some sort of spirit/ghost. And there is no evidence or historical record of Jesus that dates from the time he was supposedly livingCompare the historical evidence of Buddha for example (who lived approximately 500 years before Christ) They practically have the laundry list of Buddha
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: YES!!

of course........god exist....Nd the people who dnt believe that god exist dont belive on themselves......
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

Well at least theres something 'higher' than us anyway. Definitely something fishy going on with it all, maybe we're being controlled by white mice? Not sure, but I'll go with a YES.
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Yes because he has spoken to me.
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Seen a shrink lately?
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he spoke to me after that and said he was lying to you - then we had a good laugh (and a good scotch)
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how do you know it's god and not satan?
Debate: Do you believe in God?
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I believe in a "God"
Debate: Do you believe in God?
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Yes, absolutely. I can point to a great many things where I know for certain He is with me every step of the way. Does that give me any reason to judge someone else that doesn't believe? Absolutely not.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

There is a place god will send you if you are bad where you will burn in agony for all eternity. But he loves you, right?
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

Actually, Hell isn't some burning in agony thing. The concept is simple. You can accept God's love, and He will forgive all of your sins and errors as any good loving parent would. Or, you can not accept, which means you have chosen to be estranged from God. That's what Hell is - not eternal punishment, eternal separation from God.There's a really great author you might want to explore on this kind of stuff - Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal church. He's written about a dozen or more books along these lines, the best being Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism and Sins of Scripture. Wow, talk about kicking * and taking no prisoners!From Spong, I've learned that what I read in the Bible isn't particularly what was actually in the Bible. Wait! What? Huh!?You're dealing with multiple translations of ancient texts, most of which were oral traditions for thousands of years before they were ever committed to writing. This is one of the reasons you can get something as simple as this concept of estrangement and have it warped into this idea that the televangelists love to throw around that God hates every fiber in your being and just can't wait to have you burn in agony for all eternity. That's trash.Hope that helps a bit. Try this little experiment. Go to a book store, and grab two or three different versions of the Bible off the shelf. Try King James, New Revised, and say Living Bible. Then pick a verse, and compare it among the three. This will knock your socks off. You'll find entire paragraphs added and subtracted between versions. That is not the "word of God."
Debate: Do you believe in God?
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YES a BIG YES. I believe in a GOD who created me. I believe in HAND that creates the rules by which we choose to live or not. I BELIVE in a GOD who Loves.
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God is Himself, so that we can be His people.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

1. The Argument from ChangeThe material world we know is a world of change. This young woman came to be 5'2", but she was not always that height. The great oak tree before us grew from the tiniest acorn. Now when something comes to be in a certain state, such as mature size, that state cannot bring itself into being. For until it comes to be, it does not exist, and if it does not yet exist, it cannot cause anything. As for the thing that changes, although it can be what it will become, it is not yet what it will become. It actually exists right now in this state (an acorn); it will actually exist in that state (large oak tree). But it is not actually in that state now. It only has the potentiality for that state. Now a question: To explain the change, can we consider the changing thing alone, or must other things also be involved? Obviously, other things must be involved. Nothing can give itself what it does not have, and the changing thing cannot have now, already, what it will come to have then. The result of change cannot actually exist before the change. The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change. Nothing changes itself. Apparently self-moving things, like animal bodies, are moved by desire or will—something other than mere molecules. And when the animal or human dies, the molecules remain, but the body no longer moves because the desire or will is no longer present to move it. Now a further question: Are the other things outside the changing thing also changing? Are its movers also moving? If so, all of them stand in need right now of being acted on by other things, or else they cannot change. No matter how many things there are in the series, each one needs something outside itself to actualize its potentiality for change. The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by "God." Briefly, if there is nothing outside the material universe, then there is nothing that can cause the universe to change. But it does change. Therefore there must be something in addition to the material universe. But the universe is the sum total of all matter, space and time. These three things depend on each other. Therefore this being outside the universe is outside matter, space and time. It is not a changing thing; it is the unchanging Source of change.From the Handbook of Christian Apologetics by Peter Kreeft and Fr. Ronald Tacelli, SJ (Intervarsity Press, 1994
Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: Yes!!

"Briefly, if there is nothing outside the material universe, then there is nothing that can cause the universe to change. "Not necessarily. You're skipping over the much more likely reality that things cause each other to change, in an interrelated cycle.
Debate: Do you believe in God?
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exactly. In nature there is something called synergy. that is, when two materials fused together make for a stronger (for example)material than the sum of the strength of the materials separately. This happens because of how they interrelate for certain mathematical forms are stronger than others. A tetrahedron is a stronger form then a box for examplehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tetrahedron.svg different forms coming together randomly can cause huge exponential changes