1598
rating
20
debates
65.0%
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Topic
#799
If God were immaterial, God therefore would not exist.
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 5 votes and with 23 points ahead, the winner is...
Dustandashes
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 5
- Time for argument
- Two days
- Max argument characters
- 30,000
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
1495
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9
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Description
Round 1: Opening Arguments.
Round 2: Rebuttals.
Round 3: Rejoinders.
Round 4: (Double) Rejoinders.
Round 5: Closing Arguments.
Stipulations:
Definition of exist: to be (Cambridge Dictionary.)
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Con
Tie
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Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:
concession
Criterion
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Tie
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Better arguments
3 point(s)
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2 point(s)
Better legibility
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Reason:
Concession
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Tie
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Better arguments
3 point(s)
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2 point(s)
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1 point(s)
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1 point(s)
Reason:
Concession
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Tie
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1 point(s)
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1 point(s)
Reason:
Conceded debate.
Criterion
Con
Tie
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3 point(s)
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2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
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Reason:
Concession
I think you're on the right track, I don't know if I would have used shapes as evidence for the immaterial. Numbers can work. Where can I find "twelveness" in nature? Those analogies have their limits though. If I was trying to disprove materialism I might have gone with something like logic. The concept of logic by necessity must be immaterial for it to function at all. We could discuss that more if you'd like. Or I would bring up moral truths as examples of immaterial realities, that's always fun. Can altruism be weighed? Can you look at justice with a microscope...where in nature is the truth that you shouldn't murder people? Can that truth be experienced with the five senses? Are those truths made of particles? You get the idea. Just some more ammunition for future debates with real materialists.
My apologies for my forfeit. I grossly overestimated the time I had available to respond. It's up to you: we can end the debate here, and allow my forfeit to determine the outcome, or we can pick up where we left off in Round 3. Either decision is fine.
Lol nice alter ego dude
'semantic realm' of reality is something I came up with in my anti-materialism debate. I'm impressed to see that this (and not consciousness) is how you defeated it.