Instigator / Pro
4
1266
rating
119
debates
15.97%
won
Topic
#566

The existence of God is impossible

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
6
Better sources
2
4
Better legibility
2
2
Better conduct
0
2

After 2 votes and with 10 points ahead, the winner is...

Barney
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
One day
Max argument characters
30,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
14
1810
rating
49
debates
100.0%
won
Description

No information

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:

Full forf.... wait what?

This one was easy.

The resolution as outlined was that God is impossible. In my view pro has to provide some Justification as to why God is not just unlikely, but impossible. Pro argues that Gods implicit spontaneous self generation renders him impossible. I felt con highlighted this well in R2 - that the Big Bang has the same issue - yet we exist and no realize that there is no issue. I feel this slightly edges out pros argument.

On top of this, pro was clearly unable to beat cons semantic definitional argument, I normally give tremendous leeway to the victims of this form of semantic chicanery, but pro doesn’t appear to offer any semantic response, with his star wars point it seems pro doesn’t realize that pro is talking about figurative not literal existence.

As a result pro marginally fails his arguments and loses the counter argument. Arguments to con.

While I would normally give Conduct to pro here due to the semantics, pros called con mentally ill, and his last paragraph was pretty substantial violation of debate etiquette. Language and manners always beats semantic mark downs. Conduct to con also.

All other points tied.

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:

RFD in Comments.