I'll read that later. The thing is, though, a lot of groups of people are easy to debate, easy to beat, and hard to win against. Racists, religious people, and conspircay theorists for example. One thing you'll learn is that almost all of them that you meet will have the same questions as the one before, so you'll have to give out the same answers frequently. I was seriously thinking of keeping a copy-paste document of various counters so I didn't have to re-type them, but if some of them know each other they might catch on. So, you'll have to re-type "but evolution isn't random, and here's why..." or "Pascal's Wager is flawed because..." or "Hitler was a Catholic, and here's some proof...but even if he was atheist, that wouldn't mean all atheists are evil, or that atheism is wrong, and here's why..." Just be forewarned. It's best to either come up with or find arguments that are original and novel, and lead in with them, so they are caught off guard, and so they can't rely on their stock answers. That's if you initiate the debate, that is. If they do...it'll be a circular debate, most likely.

 

Actually, I decided to read it. You may wish to look up on logical fallacies, as this dude used one very early on, and then used a few others afterwards. You did point it out, but it's possible to miss one. Here's a good site for this, here's another, and here's a third which is specifically for atheists. The point is, if you point out "you used a straw man fallacy" or "you used a false dichotomy" it sounds more authoritative, and it should shame them into fixing their argument if you show them WHY it is fallacious.

Honestly, I think you did fine. It was an easy opponent, but you did fine. I'm not the best, however. I think if anyone here can educate you (and me) it would be todangst, Rook_Hawkins or Maragon, who also gives you a passing mark.

P.S. shit, Meagan seems to have said basically what I said about them using the same arguments over and over again.

P.P.S. when someone uses wikipedia as a primary source, they lose automatically. How do you know they didn't write it themselves? 

 

LOL.

Wikipedia said it. I believe it. That settles it. 

OK, well you're like, Grade B. Those three are Grade A. (WHY did I forget DeludedGod? Oi! That dude's full of awesome.) You are right, though. Sorry.

haha! I love Wikipedia. Sometimes it lets you get away with the most fucked up shit. A buddy replace John Cusack's picture with Adolf Hitler's. It stayed up for 3 days. I replaced the discography of christian hard rock band "mewithoutYou" with the discography of "Simon & Garfunkel", their member list with the members of "the Beatles" and their band history with the entire text of "the Origin of Species". Took them a week to fix it all.