Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

That's a very interesting point, because if God didn't warn the Israeli people against those foods, people would claim that an all-knowing God should know better.Two points:1. Does the Bible contain warnings against every single cause for deadly allergies?2. Are you asserting that some parts of the Bible do not apply to us today (for whatever reason)?So said the rebel teenager that demands his father to pay the fines for his crimes.I am not a teenager. I am not rebeling against your God. I do not want him to pay for any of my crimes.But if your God is real, and he is our "father", and he is all powerful, and he loves us... then reason would suggest that He is a very neglectful parent when it comes to stopping a tsunami from killing hundreds of thousands of his beloved children (among which are quite a few innocent babies).Especially given that He has in the past intervened with human history.Not only that, but He also seems to be an unfair and choosy parent. Does it not bother you that this Biblical God has a favorite people (Israel)?If it was mere consciousness, there would be a general agreement regarding this, since everyone is consciousThat is far from the truth. Most people, me included, live most of their lives either rehashing the past or in some projected future created by the mind.We are slaves of our brains, and that is why we are rarely conscious.An argument that have existed for almost a thousand years and is constantly being revised and criticized is not a stupid fallacy, or it would have been dropped long ago, instead of resisting for a millenia.I'm afraid it is. If you would like me to break down the specific fallacies contained in the argument that "silaswash" presented then please let me know. But before I do, please, read his statement again.The ontological argument does not rely on being 'great' but on being 'the greatest.' Two points:1. By who's standards is he the greatest?2. If there was a consensus that God is indeed the greatest conceivable being, does the possibility of Him not being a real being alter His status as the aforementioned?And because it could be caused by biological processes, then it was? What's preventing Mars from being a completely lifeless planet and all the methane have been created through mud volcanoes?Cue applause. I just wish you would apply the same inquiring mind when it comes to assertions made in your Bible, such as God created the world in 7 days. Citation needed. I never heard of this, but I am pretty sure it is speculation based on long distance photography.It is based on high-res photos and also on our findings of identical patterns here on earth. By the way, to go back to my previous point: when you read your Bible, did you at any point shout "Citation needed" after what you read?Actually, stuff can more or less be created out of thin air (from massless energy, actually) in a process called Pair ProductionCool. Let's look at Pair Production since you brought it up.The creation of a particle (and its antiparticle) usually from a photon.For this to happen you need enough energy to create the pair, and that energy must be at least the total rest mass energy of the two particles.So guess what. It's not out of thin air after all. There is no know process by which entropy can be reduced, and an Universe that has existed since forever would have infinite entropy and would have long decaied into heat death.You are trying to apply a simple thermodynamic model to the universe in general. For this model to work, the space and energy must be finite. Since the universe appears to be infinite you cannot speculate by using entropy.Furthermore, even if this model could be applied to the universe, the fact that the universe is expanding, means that the maximum possible entropy is also rising. This actually moves us further away from heat death, not closer.Why? I mean, if I kill you, I get to have all that you have, for free. Why is it best if I don't kill you? I have to share food, water, women, and other resources with you.Please consider the following:1. Is believing in the Biblical God the only reason that stops you from killing me?2. Is it by chance that the millions of people who don't believe in the Christian God don't go out killing each other?3. Is it by chance that the ancient civilizations, before Christ and the Bible came out, valued human life and good behavior?That would have been a good argument if morality was a product of modern civilization. It isn't. It is as old as mankind, kind of one of the first things we "figured out".Who said modern? The greek Hippocrates and the ancient Egyptians performed loads of surgical procedures. That was even before Christianity came about.it was also during that time that most famous philosophers examined the human condition and came up with great ideas and findings. Murder is defined in the dictionary as killing a person without a justified reason. Death Penalty is, in the mind of its supporters, justified by the crimes of the person.If murder is universally rejected, and murder must have a justified reason, should the justification for murder be also universally accepted?Is your father accountable to you for not giving you a bicycle when you were ten years old?No. But that was not what I meant with my argument. If the Christian God is real and he has power over the physical world, and he knows that a tsunami is about to kill thousands of us, then is He not accountable for safeguarding us from an event we are powerless to prevent? What kind of parent is that? Can you find me a human parent who, in good mind, would not prevent something bad from happening to their children if they could? No.Does that not suggest that the Creator is not bound to the descriptions and characteristics provided in the Bible?Peer pressure.So all the atheists and non Christians out there who are well behaved, only do so because of peer pressure... At this point I will withdraw from this debate and bow to your superior understanding of human nature. That explanation is clearly beyond anything I can comprehend and puts you way ahead of me both intellectually and philosophically. Well done. Cue applause again.