Instigator / Pro
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1377
rating
62
debates
25.81%
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Topic
#1733

God put medicine in plants for every single disease that exist

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
3
Better sources
2
2
Better legibility
1
1
Better conduct
1
1

After 1 vote and with 3 points ahead, the winner is...

MisterChris
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Two weeks
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
7
1762
rating
45
debates
88.89%
won
Description

The evidence clearly points to that god put medicine in plants for all diseases.But since we have not discovered all the medical properties in plants. I have to change the burden of proof a bit.Let start the new year right. My burden of proof is my believe that god put medicine in plants for every disease is likely to be true.

80 percent of the world uses plants as medicine
http://www.medicinehunter.com/about-plant-medicines

70 percent of the new pharmaceuticals made come from plants
https://news.mongabay.com/2007/03/70-of-new-drugs-come-from-mother-nature/

70 percent of modern medicine is the bootlegged version of what god created

Medicine in plants is referenced in our media

in Shrek 1 Fiona ask donkey to find a flower that is blue with red thorns to heal Shrek who has been shot by an arrow. In monster hunter the game.You use plants to heal yourself.In Pokemon you can buy an revival herb to revive your Pokemon from fainted.In Pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky. You can use ginseng to power up your Pokemon power.

Though there are some disease we have no cure for.I believe there is a cure for it in plants. we just have not discovered it yet.

For example in the plant chaya is being called gods miracle plant because it is curing people of diseases in foreign lands. We have disease but a plant ends up being a cure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knIZhHdsVik

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

I'm accepting con's phrasing of the BoP to mean the plants cure things. Outright cure rather than merely coincidentally treat, bridges the gap to God.

I do not expect all diseases and all plants to be listed. If say mint leaf cured HIV and the common cold, that would be sufficient to show them curing several things (in that case, just a couple important things). Con played a little game with trying to expand the number of things each would need to cure, this seems bastardly at first but the resolution calls for the absolute of "every single disease that exist" making it a valid criticism. With this in place, and no plant shown to cure several diseases (I believe 8 was the threshold), this has to go to con.

Pro's lost a lot with the Gish Gallops, and worse the bolding of gish gallops. Bold text should be headings or quotes, to guide the audience to important areas of contention.