Debate Challenge

[bennyboy]

There is a specific subforum for formal debates.  You should arrange with the moderators to make a thread there.  If you intend to debate both of us, I prefer you make a separate thread for each of us.

If I were still on staff, I'd vote against allowing a debate in the formal debate section until the OP has established him/herself as a member. As it is, someone will have to make a request to staff.

Well, I don't think a declared Christian should have to buddy around with a bunch of atheists in order to initiate a debate.  The OP can write sentences, and has expressed a wish for a debate.  My guess is it won't really go anywhere, but I'm willing to do the first step with just a declaration.

[rexbeccarox]

I'm just saying: I'd vote against it. Doesn't matter, though, because I retired from staff

[robvalue]

I'd also be interested if he could tell me why I should care if there is a god.

To me, atheism is not some sort of actual position by choice, it's a simple reaction to reality. If there's a god, good for him. I don't care. I don't know why people think proving its existence makes any practical difference.

[ignoramus]

Hello. I have been engaging in debates with atheists on the existence of God for many years now, and I still have yet to find a worthy opponent who is capable of defeating me. I'm here to issue a challenge to any atheist with the guts to take me on. Would anyone be interested?

Really. No need to. You have been defeating yourself all by yourself. You don't need us to prove to you that God is a figment of your imagination. You already know that!
If you want reassurances, you and your religious mates can just pat each other on the back all day. But you come here instead. This is where the critical thinkers live.
You come here to reinforce  that 100 foot thick wall we call indoctrination.
The more logic we throw your way, the stronger your mental gymnastics need to be to fight off the laws of reality and the universe.
This is why you can never be defeated. Your ideas cannot budge, which means you cannot progress or learn anything new.
This is why we call your type sheep. Just being here tells us you've already lost.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Ok, BennyBoy and Chad have accepted. I don't care which one of you debates me, but I'm glad to see 2 takers of the challenge. We can do it on this forum.

There is a specific subforum for formal debates.  You should arrange with the moderators to make a thread there.  If you intend to debate both of us, I prefer you make a separate thread for each of us.

My guess is that I'd have to play devil's advocate. That could be kind of fun.

[Whateverist]

Yeah, step into the dark side. Powerful it is.

[Faith No More]

I agree entirely but question the role of "just" where I bolded it.  Lots of things are inventions of the human mind.  Many of those are celebrated.  I think 'god' is an invention of the human mind in the same way as symbolic language.  Both are something that arise almost everywhere people have gone and at all times.

Sure, but I meant god is just a human invention relative to an honest to goodness invisible wizard hiding outside of time and space.

[Catholic_Lady]

TruthIsGod, with all due respect, what do you hope to achieve. Do you think the whole forum will implode? I won a debate recently. My opponent was not able to defeat the 5 Ways of Aquinas. Some spectators claimed that he did a bad job and that they could have done better. They haven't. The Five Ways remain decisive.

Is that why I haven't seen Metis in months??

[Jackalope]

There is a specific subforum for formal debates.  You should arrange with the moderators to make a thread there.  If you intend to debate both of us, I prefer you make a separate thread for each of us.

If I were still on staff, I'd vote against allowing a debate in the formal debate section until the OP has established him/herself as a member. As it is, someone will have to make a request to staff.

Yep, this. After the last couple of train wreck debates, I doubt very seriously anyone is going to step up and volunteer to moderate such a debate. I certainly won't until all participants have demonstrated a bare minimum familiarity with intellectual rigor.

[Cyberman]

And certainly with more than two posts and eleven minutes log time.