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Topic
#3972

If the world exists, then there must be a God who created the world

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

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After 1 vote and with 5 points ahead, the winner is...

Intelligence_06
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Religion
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Last updated date
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Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
Two weeks
Max argument characters
30,000
Voting period
One month
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Multiple criterions
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Round 1
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Best.Korea
Pro
#1
God is the unmoved mover and the uncreated creator.

If the world exists, then there must be a God who created it.

It couldnt have come out of the ass. Someone had to create it.

There are only 2 possibilities:

1) Everything has a cause
or
2) There are things which dont have a cause
or
3) Things go in circle (a causes b, b causes c, c causes a).


If everything has a cause, and every cause has a cause, it goes into endless shit and doesnt make any sense. Something cant come from nothing. Its like one ass coming out of the second ass that came out of third ass that came out of fourth ass that came out of fifth ass that came out of sixth ass and so on to infinity. It doesnt make any sense. There must be the first ass that didnt come out of any ass.


Option 2: There are things which dont have a cause.

Obviously, the unmoved mover must be supernatural, since it doesnt bow to logic of "everything must have a cause".

Only the Christian God can be the unmoved mover, since it says so in the Bible.

You may say: "Bible isnt real"

Ooooooh really? Then whats this:


Thats right. Its the Bible.

We know that Bible is real. It says so in the Bible, and we have a photo of the Bible which proves its existence.

My position comes from science. Bible is scientifically correct and historically accurate.

Everything in the world points to the existence of God.

God created trees, butterflies, cars, rivers, mountains and HIV.

HIV is the proof that God exists. God punishes immoral people and rape victims with it.

Thanks to rivers, we have water to drink. Yes, some people will drown, but their drowning is a part of God's general drowning plan. A plan would not work without people drowning.

God is all powerful, but that doesnt mean he wants to create a perfect world in which no one starves or gets raped.

Yes, God is all loving. Its just that sometimes you have to suffer greatly so that you could feel God's love.

Its not like God could have designed your brain so that you dont have to suffer or drown or get hit by a car to feel his love.

I think I have proven beyond an unreasonable doubt that God exists.

Unmoved mover sounds gay, so I should have the support of the gay community too.

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Intelligence_06
Con
#2
1. Definitions

Pro did not cite any reputable sources on what "God" is, and the only statement which sort of resembles a defining statement for said term is:
God is the unmoved mover and the uncreated creator.
Putting oxymoronic descriptions such as this does not help one to prove the existence of something, especially since:
  • Pro made it unclear what "unmoved mover" is and did not attempt to prove how or why such thing is possible.
  • The same for "uncreated creator".
  • Even if the description serves to actually convey a logically coherent and understandable concept, the way it is worded confounds instead of aids the normal method of understanding.
Nor did Pro define what "world" is. Is it Earth, or is it the entire Cosmos?

From M-W:

1a: the earthly state of human existence
b: life after death 
—used with a qualifier
the next world
2: the earth with its inhabitants and all things upon it
These are the two commonplace definitions I can find within the site. Upon closer inspection, entry 1b is to be dismissed as nothing in the topic implies the heavens or anything of a similar caliber as there is nothing stated by Pro to be "before" the world other than the supposed "God".

Therefore, "world" shall be equated to the term "earth", in a geological, ecological, anthropological or sociological meaning.

Before moving on, I would like to point out one more discrepancy in Pro's flawed argument.
There are only 2 possibilities:
1) Everything has a cause
or
2) There are things which dont have a cause
or
3) Things go in circle (a causes b, b causes c, c causes a).
In which Pro has listed three hypotheses and above all claimed there are only 2.

2. Eternal Universe Theory

2) There are things which dont have a cause
Pro has admitted that such things could exist, and attempted to put "God" in this category even we don't have a clear idea what "God" is to him at this point. In this case, if an entity such as "God" which is clearly possible to exist to Pro is not caused by anything, so could the world itself or the universe itself. It is not impossible that the Earth just sprung up on its own and spontaneously created animals and plants, it is just so impractical that the chances of that actually being true is close to zero and the possibility is negligible in scientific exploration nowadays.

However, the prompt clearly states:
If the world exists, then there must be a God who created the world
which means that in order for Pro to win, Pro must dismiss all theories regarding how the world came into existence brought up that does not involve a "God" creating it, proving that each one of "those" hypotheses has a likelyhood of exactly zero.

The theory for which the world created itself is not entirely falsifiable, although promising evidence points to others makes this theory as unlikely as it is. The chances of it are never zero, preventing the prompt from being true.

3. The Bible

You may say: "Bible isnt real"
Ooooooh really? Then whats this:
Thats right. Its the Bible.

Pro has presented a source that I can't even click open. Even if I can, I highly doubt that a single imgur page is enough to prove the Bible to be absolutely true.

If all that is required for Pro is this level of proof, then I demand:
  • Real witnesses(or at least textual accounts) of Hogwards school of wizardry & witchcraft, since the obviously-popular series Harry Potter says it is real
  • The location of Charlie's chocolate factory, since the bestselling fictional book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory says it is real
  • Biology backing up how an organism such as Medusa or Kerberos could exist since Greek Mythological stories say they are real
  • Fossil evidence of dragons since Chinese, Nordic, Welsh, etc. mythological stories say they have existed
  • Infinity stones, since Marvel says they are real.
Just to name a few examples. Note, that all these tales and books do exist, despite that we can't falsifiably prove or disprove absolutely that any of those existed.

Proving something is real in the Bible because the Bible says it is real is circular reasoning.

4. Inheritance

Suppose there IS a "God" that is the origin of everything that is not being created by anything else. That still creates a problem: Is the world DIRECTLY created, or it is formed from something before it?

Scientific evidence suggests that is the latter.
Formation
When the solar system settled into its current layout about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth formed when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become the third planet from the Sun. Like its fellow terrestrial planets, Earth has a central core, a rocky mantle, and a solid crust.
I would consider NASA a more authentic source, than, for example, Imgur.

Why is this a problem? Let's use another example. Say I made a stool using wood. Obviously, my parents made me from their cells, and my grandparents made my parents using their cells, and my great-grandparents made my grandparents using, you guessed it, their own cells. Using the conclusion of that "God created trees, butterflies, cars, rivers, mountains and HIV", if that were true, it would be equally as true to say, that my great-grandparents, who by this time have all died, made a stool in 2022. And that is not counting what made my great-grandparents.

If person A who is skilled in only making hammers, and another have purchased his hammers to make a wood sculpture, this does not mean person A made the sculpture. No matter how many examples are given, the line of reasoning stands: What what the thing I created created, cannot be assumed to be created by me. Replacing "me" the last sentence with "God", which Pro assumes to be an entity conceptually, and we arrive at this conclusion:
  • Unless we can prove that God DIRECTLY created the world, the topic is not proven true.
    • If we have any evidence that something that is not God created the world, the topic is not proven true.
Because we have solid evidence that the world is created via gravitational pull of minerals around the Sun, which isn't God, the conclusion is that, it is false that it MUST be God who created the world.

4. Misc. Rebuttals

HIV is the proof that God exists. God punishes immoral people and rape victims with it.
That is kind of shooting randomly first, then putting up a target over where the bullet ends up and call it a bullseye. Additionally, this is one of the reasons why rape is seen as bad, besides other social implications such as a lack of consent. Rape is an activity that is likely to transmit STDs, you are correct, because HIV viruses have evolved to thrive and maneuver in conditions where people have sex.

Surely, HIV is a thing and rape is bad, it is just this still fits in the evolutionary narrative that requires no God at all.

God is all powerful, but that doesnt mean he wants to create a perfect world in which no one starves or gets raped.
"All powerful" is impossible for any plausible individual, as if we define a moment t1, it is impossible for "Eating steak and only eating steak at t1" and "Not eating at t1" to be both fulfilled. The inability to any action would negate an entity from being "all-powerful".

Its not like God could have designed your brain so that you dont have to suffer or drown or get hit by a car to feel his love.
This alone negates God from being all-powerful, and does bring no constructive evidence that our brain is directly designed as opposed to evolved for billions of years.

I think I have proven beyond an unreasonable doubt that God exists.
I think Pro has not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that God exists(or even "can" exist)

Conclusions
  • "God" is not clearly defined using any authentic sources and the only claim resembling a definition gave it oxymoronic qualities which should not be taken as actual definitions of said term.
  • "World" is not defined by Pro, so I used M-W to define it as the planet Earth.
  • It is logically possible that the universe itself is eternal if God can be eternal, and if the universe is eternal, it removes the need for there to be a God.
  • Just because the Bible exists and says God is real does not really prove God is real, especially since Pro made no connection between his idea of what "God" is and the biblical God, citing nothing.
  • The problem with inheritance results in that unless we can prove that God directly participated in the creation of the world and there is no other explanation for the world's origin, the topic is automatically false.
  • Pro's R1 case has been dismantled. Vote CON!

Round 2
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Best.Korea
Pro
#3
Sorry, your argument is too long. I have no patience to read it.

But I dont need to read it in order to know that its wrong.

I think your argument is wrong because you didnt disprove the existence of Bible.

If Bible exists, then God exists.

Bible is part of the world which we live in.

I have already sent you an image of the Bible to prove to you that Bible exists.

Its on you to prove that Bible doesnt exist. If you cant prove that Bible doesnt exist, then I will consider myself right.

Also, to make matters worse for you, I am going to create one more argument that you cannot disprove. This one I call "the circle of logic":

Premise 1:
If Bible exists, then Bible is right.

Premise 2:
Bible exists.

Conclusion:
Bible is right.

Go ahead now. Prove to me that Bible doesnt exist.

I am waiting.
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Intelligence_06
Con
#4
Sorry, your argument is too long. I have no patience to read it.
I think this is probably somewhere along the lines of "bad conduct", yeah.

Pro has generally offered a whopping 30,000 characters as the limit. Pro must have manually changed this option as the default character count is 10,000 if no touches were bothered. Deliberately expanding the upper limit, then losing patience because the arguments are going to be long, can be seen as an act of inconsistency and untrustworthyness.

To point out another fact, the last round didn't event take me 10,000 characters. It is entirely Pro's fault for Pro not having no patience to read my argument, as obvious as it is.

If Bible exists, then God exists.
The Bible does exist, I accept this fact. Due to the existence of the Bible and various other texts that defined and layered attributes upon what God is, technically, God exists, but only as a concept or idea. There is yet to be any solid proof brought upon this place that God exists physically or even metaphysically, so even if "God exists" due to the Bible existing, it is not enough to prove that God created the world.

As a reminder, these are required for the Pro position to be justified:
  • There are NO other possible explanations, other than that a God directly participated in the creation of the world.
The existence of the Bible gave a scarce possibility regarding the origin of the world, however, it does not eliminate EVERY OTHER hypotheses. It is possible(albeit still improbable) that God put the sun there along with some rocks, indirectly creating the world as opposed to directly. In that case, due to the problem with inheritance in structures, we cannot say God created the world if this is the case.

Its on you to prove that Bible doesnt exist. If you cant prove that Bible doesnt exist, then I will consider myself right.
As a reminder, participants of a debate cannot vote on said exact debate.

Conclusions
  • In order for Pro to prove his side of the resolution true, it must be proven that there are no other possible explanations, other than that a God directly participated in the creation of the world.
  • Pro has failed to bring proof that all other explanations are impossible
  • As a result, the topic is unproven, it is not a "must" for a god to create the world. Vote CON.


Round 3
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Best.Korea
Pro
#5
I dont see anywhere in your arguments the proof that Bible doesnt exist.

If you cant prove to me that Bible doesnt exist, then I am afraid you lost.

I sent you photos of the Bible as proof for the existence of the Bible and God.

Maybe you dont believe your own eyes? But then what do you believe?

If Bible exists, then God exists.

We, the reasonable Christians, know that the Bible exists since we have Bible in our homes where we read it every day.

Until you prove to me that Bible doesnt exist, I am afraid we have nothing to discuss and I have no reason to read your arguments.
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Intelligence_06
Con
#6
The entirety of the latest entry made by Pro can be handled by my R2 argument. Just because the Bible exists does not prove that the only explanation of the world existing is that God created it directly. This point was missed entirely due to Pro's admitted carelessness.

Extend as a standalone point is nevertheless still dropped, until we meet in the next round.
Round 4
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Best.Korea
Pro
#7
Con admitted that the Bible exists.

By admitting that the Bible exists, Con admitted that God exists.

At this point, I have proven everything I needed to.

Bible is an obvious part of the world and an obvious proof that God exists.

It says so in the Bible. We know that because Bible exists.

I was ready to take a picture of my Bible to further prove that Bible exists, but that wont be necessary since Con accepted that the Bible exists and my argument was proven entirely.
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Intelligence_06
Con
#8
The entirety of the latest entry made by Pro can be handled by my R2 argument. Just because the Bible exists does not prove that the only explanation of the world existing is that God created it directly. This point was missed entirely due to Pro's admitted carelessness.

I restate, Pro exhibited no resistance to my framework in R1 and R2.

Extend as a standalone point is nevertheless still dropped, until we meet in the next round.

Round 5
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Best.Korea
Pro
#9
Con admitted that the Bible exists.

Con admitted that world exists.

Con admitted that the Bible is part of the world.

By admitting that the Bible exists and is part of our world, Con admitted that God exists.  Hence, he forfeited the debate.

At this point, I have proven everything I needed to.

Bible is an obvious part of the world and such world is an obvious proof that God exists.

It says so in the Bible. We know that because Bible exists.

I was ready to take a picture of my Bible to further prove that Bible exists, but that wont be necessary since Con accepted that the Bible exists and my argument was proven entirely.


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Intelligence_06
Con
#10
Con admitted that world exists.
It is worth noting that this statement just makes the Pro's case(if you can even call it one) more confusing since the topic resolution clearly states that it is assumed the world exists, and we start from there. This statement does nothing except to let the public see how little idea Pro knows what he thinks he is talking about.

By admitting that the Bible exists and is part of our world, Con admitted that God exists.  Hence, he forfeited the debate.
I restate a point that has been made back in R1 and still has not been noted by Pro, just proving the Bible exists does not eliminate every other explanation in terms how the world is created. Pro has not even attempted to justify why the story in the bible is accurate to real life. I extend this point seeing as Pro probably gave up.

Vote CON.