The Catholic Church is harmful to society
Rules
No semantics.
We share an equal burden of proof.
The first round will be for acceptance; the second round for our respective arguments; and the third round for rebuttals to the arguments in round two.
A Perfect Being Cannot Exist
Theism is more reasonable than Atheism
RESOLUTION: Theism is more reasonable than Atheism
Burden of Proof
The world was created by G-d as oppossed to evolution
I would like to begin by explaining my contention. The world did not come about by a random explosion of particles, but was rather placed and planned specifically by a Divine figure. The question in the forefront, without all its details, is how is it possible that a random explosion caused something so detailed and perfect? How is it that human intellect of today in its complete, original origin evolved from random happenings of nothingness that just happened to be there with no source? As I...
The cause of the universe must be a sentient/ personal being
In round 4, my opponent will simply put:
miracles occur, but almost never to atheists
please show something that happened to an atheist, that would have been called a miracle had it happened to a religous person, because of its scientifically inexplicable nature. no semantics pleas what are thought of as miraculous events are heavily documented and readily available. someone can see with no retinas even though this seems scientifically impossible etc, just to use an example. the common objection of atheists and skeptics is that things just happen to occur by probability...
Could the Zonkey be the coolest thing ever?
I think that the newly discovered animal by myself, the Zonkey, is just about the coolest thing to ever exist....
"principle of double effect" opens a slippery slope, see ectopic pregnancies
people say the ends do not justify the means. they use the principle of double effect as a way around what might otherwise be thought of a an evil means etc. but at least as applied in any cases I can see, and probably in theory too, it opens up to a slippery slope. people like to say these hardline rules, the ends don't justify the means but principle of double effect works, help avoid "slippery slopes" etc. but even these "principle of double effect" arguments open up a can of worms, a sli...
God's Existence is More Plausible Than His Non-Existence.
God will be defined as a Maximally-Great Being. God has all great-making properties (such as honesty, power, etc.) to their maximal extent, and no lesser-making properties. God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent.
I will take the Pro side and pr...
The ontological arguments justify a belief in God
Intro: I as the affirmative will be arguing that there is at least 1 valid ontological argument for the existence of God and Con will attempt to refute every argument I make. This debate is between myself and Magic8000 as a result of a previous debate for the existence of God, where the ontological argument I produced didn't get enough attention due to character space. Con in this d...