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New Life Begins at Conception Big Bang Created the Universe
Debate Score:72
Arguments:42
Total Votes:82
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 New Life Begins at Conception (8)
 
 Big Bang Created the Universe (23)

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Which Belief Requires a Bigger Leap of Faith?

Just as the title says. Which belief requires the greater leap of faith? Which claim is easiest to support with factual evidence?

New Life Begins at Conception

Side Score: 22
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Big Bang Created the Universe

Side Score: 50
Cuaroc(8829) Banned
3 points

Seeing that life actually begins before conception.

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
Chuz-Life(497) Disputed
2 points

Banned for being too stupid to even notice the word new in the question.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
Akulakhan(2985) Disputed
1 point

No he's still right... That sperm and egg cell were alive before conception.

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
CrocoDuck(28) Banned
2 points

This is truly broken debate. Chuz just showed up how dumb debate could be created :(

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
Nox1(6) Banned
1 point

Yes, idiot let's ban everyone you don't agree with :D

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
3 points

This one. How am I supposed to believe that the universe just happened?

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
3 points

The Big Bang requires more proof. Apparently, it all started with some dense matter in the center of space. Of course it could never be randomly created, so we must asume that the dense matter has allways been there. Now if the dense matter has allways been there, why has energy suddenly come out of it and caused it to explode. There is nothing there to cause it!

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
2 points

Though both can be (and likely are) true - Obviously this one (the Big Bang Theory) is much harder to prove and therefore requires a somewhat greater 'leap of faith. '

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
Nox0(1393) Disputed Banned
6 points

for illiterate freaks it must definitely look strange

....just another from your pathetic tries to put abortion against something where it will look worst....

I have an idea for your next debate.:

What is worst?

Abortion vs. drinking water

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
Chuz-Life(497) Disputed
2 points

The only thing more pathetic is your total lack of any consideration of the question. It's about the level of belief required and it was to bring some perspective to both debates. Fool.

Banned.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
2 points

Knowing that matter can't be created (or that humans haven't figured out how to yet) or destroyed, yet matter exists due allegedly to the big bang, I have to go with this one with the huge loop hole.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe

It's true. Scientists can only theorize about how the universe began but they know for certain how a new life begins.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
2 points

New Life begins at Conception

I do not consider this view/position to be strictly a belief; it is a fact of reality. It is pretty broad, but I will presume the topic is about specifically human life. As I understand the definition of what the word "faith" to mean is to place "trust and/or confidence in a person or thing"; this is the first definition given. So this being said I would have to take a leap of confidence and trust to "believe" in the Big Bang theory without any sound evidence that I can test for myself and would lead me beyond a reasonable doubt that it is fact. Versus something I have participated in the cause of (I am a father) with a female gender of human beings (my wife, the woman I am mutually committed to), have witnessed the ultrasound as well as the birth of that new life (our son).

Hmm, I think I will stick to "New Life begins at Conception" as factual based.

Supporting Evidence: Reference for definition of faith (dictionary.reference.com)
Side: Big Bang Created the Universe

Since new life could be anything from a cell to an ant to a polar bear, I guess it would be pretty easy to believe that.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
Chuz-Life(497) Clarified
2 points

Since new life could be anything from a cell to an ant to a polar bear, I guess it would be pretty easy to believe that.

If you can believe that a polar bear can be created by conception.... why can't you accept that a human being is created by conception?

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
shoutoutloud(4303) Clarified
1 point

I believe they're possible lives at conception. It is a new life, but it is a new polar bear? I doubt it.

Yes, it is a new life.

And yes, it is a possible polar bear.

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
1 point

I think you would have to have a lot of faith in the Big Bang Theory and that out of the blue without any cause it sprung the universe into existence because I don't see how you would believe that something without a cause would spring into existence.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
1 point

It is impossible to know for sure how the universe started. Not sure how the options are really related.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe
Chuz-Life(497) Clarified
2 points

Not sure how the options are really related.

Easy. Some people have a harder time accepting the fact that a new life begins at conception than they do the idea (theory) about how the Universe began.

"Which one requires the bigger leap of faith?"

Side: New Life Begins at Conception
1 point

Exactly, there is really nothing relating those 2 topics. Thanks for clarifying.

Side: Big Bang Created the Universe