Absolute Truth
My position: morality is relative. Your position: truth is absolute. For context, please state your religious beliefs, if any. I am atheist....
Kalam Sucks Butt
Does the kalam such butt? Ima say NO WAY!! Argument (1) Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence. (2) The universe has a beginning of its existence. Therefore: (3) The universe has a cause of its existence. (4) If the universe has a cause of its existence then that cause is God. Therefore: There was no nature and there were no natural forces ontologically prior to the Big Bang nature itself was created at the Big Bang. That means the cause of th...
It is more probable that god exists: qopel debate
God is a maximally great being, and...
We live only once.
I look forward to debating anyone. This debate is about logic base thinking. This is debate is a burden of proof on both of us for one cannot prove or give any evidence that we live only once. But this debate is to g...
It is most probable that a god exists.
I've sent this challenge to Nimbus because (s)he agreed to debate the existence of god with me. I'll lay down some basic definitions.
God is a maximally great being, and by definition, you cannot conceive of anything greater tha...
Rhetoric, Unfortunately, Is More Important Than Dialectic
My argument here is that, for better or worse, rhetoric is more important than dialectic. This is in a few areas: 1) The art of persuasion, 2) Actual policy, and 3) The usefulness of language. First, rhetoric compresses nuanced meaning into words that accommodates the scarcity of attention span when discussing issues. That is by being artistic rather than logical, ordinary listeners can more easily pay attention and relate with what is being said. Lingo and jargon is ineffective and...
Shared BoP Is Elitist
This debate is about the characteristic of burden of proof in public policy debates. To demonstrate, Con and Pro will pretend to be two people actually participating in a social program. Con will be a "strong" person. Pro will be a "weak" person. Before participation, Pro was skeptical of the social program necessarily being safe and respectful. Pro did not have evidence in advance of experience which proved the social program's unreliability, so was forced to "go with the program"....
Atheism is An Untenable Position
While I am not concerned withdefinitionsfor atheism here (see 1.1), I think a passing comment on the clarity of my positionin regards to atheismbeing an"untenable position"are in order. By 'untenable', I merely mean to say that the given position (i.e. atheism) cannot be held consistently given the consideration of existing counter-factuals. These counter-factuals take their form apart from calling the atheist "del...
That the mind is a purely physical substance.
That the mind is a purely physical substance, existing in the brain and that all dualist accounts supposing the existence of a non-physical soul are false.
Rules:
1. A forfeit or concession is not allowed.
2. No semantics, trolling, or lawyering.
3. All arguments and sources must be visible inside this debate.
4. Debate resolution, definitions, rules, and structure cannot be changed without asking in the comme...
Occam's Razor Exploits Goodwill
This is a simple argument that explains the problem with tolerating Occam's Razor in debate. For those unfamiliar, Occam's Razor is the idea that among plausible explanations, the simplest one should be chosen: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/occam.html http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/occams-razor.htm http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/OCCAMRAZ.html The problem with Occam's Razor is it allows people to claim possibilities as sufficient reason for wh...