Personal pictures as avatars should be disallowed on debate.org.
If this site is about ideas, then there is no need for faces. What a person looks like has absolutely no bearing on the validity of a point so why introduce that data? Personal photos could easily be faked. They pose a distraction. They encourage prejudice and stereotyping. They reduce personal security. They serve no relevant purpose. They encourage classism. They encourage sexism....
The Purpose of the US Constitution is to Legislate Morality
Resolution:
The Purpose of the US Constitution is to Legislate Morality
Sodom and Gomorra were neither Judged by God as wicked nor destroyed because of homosexuality
Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve all heard of the story of Sodom and Gomorra. We’re told grand tales of a city so ‘wicked’ that the entire male population is gay! Gasp! And God, not liking gay people, or gay sex, decided that He had had enough with such evil, and wiped Sodom and Gomorra off the map. Our pastors, families, and neighbors, repeatedly tell us that both cities were annihilated bec...
Really what is the truth about the earth and how we got here?
20 billion years ago. Nothingness. Then suddenly some unknown atom massed outwards into space, if only we could get our hands on this "atom", as there was space for this explosion to expand into there had to be time and existing matter there before. According to science outside the universe, it's a void where nothing can exist. So how did anything come together to begin with? So far I would say im being logical. Then the next part is chemical evolution, how and where did all these chemicals get...
One Can Be Both Agnostic and Atheist
You cannot be both Agnostic and Atheist. Burden of Proof is shared, make your argument....
The Cleaners
Everyone knows about vote bombing, which is the practice of a small group pouring all their votes with no justification onto one person. Purposes for doing so may range from just wanting to raise each others' percentages to purposely trashing another person's win rate. Whether or not CWO, as made infamous by the other debate, exists to vote bomb or not, one fact is clear: vote bombing exists. I myself have been victim to it several times. The first few by a single person who made several a...
The new testament is without contradiction.
The way this debate will go is I will show that there are contradictions, the person I am debating will attempt to show that there are no contradictions in the bible. Round 1 will merely be accepting the challenge. In round 2 I will begin my arguments for a contradiction. I define contradictions in the bible a the bible taking both sides of a mutually exclusive dichotomy. Mutually exclusive meaning that if one is true the other is by default false. Good luck to my opponent....
Does the Christian god exist?
Thought I'd try another one of these debates. Bit of a one-tune joe, but hey. By the Christian God, I mean the Personal Creator of the universe, who is all-powerful, all-loving, all good and all knowing, and who promises salvation through Jesus Christ, and who, to a greater or lesser extent is depicted by the Bible. Atheism, the position I will be defending is, for the purpose of this debate merely defined as the belief that there are better arguments to negate the proposition above, than...
Homosexual couples can raise children just as well as heterosexual couples.
This debate is based on my opponent's assertion that homosexual couples cannot raise children as well as heterosexual couples. He's agreed to debate me on this topic before; however, due to my work schedule I was unable to participate and had to forfeit. Apparently he has a lot of credible sources to back up his point of view. While I don't care about the automatic loss, I'd like the opportunity for my opponent to defend his beliefs. I'm planning on taking Thursday off, so hopefully that plus th...
Poop has DNA
I'll argue that poop has DNA, Con obviously debates it does not. First round acceptance only....