http://www.debate.com/rss/debates/ This RSS feed lists the newest debates on Debate.com, regardless of category. en-us 2008-05-17T20:14:25-08:00 2008-05-17T20:14:25-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/To-be-decided./1/ Gonna take an idea from some other people and do this, because I'm bored and don't know what to debate about. As you can see, this debate is 5 rounds. In the contender's round 1, he/she will propose 3 different topics of debate that COVER VARIOUS FIELDS. (I don't want 3 debates about abortion but worded differently, for example. Then in my round 2, I will choose one of the debates to well...debate on. In the contender's round 2, he/she will choose a stance on the choice (PRO or CON) and choose whether to go first or second. If he/she goes first, to keep the number of arguments per person equal, he/she must include the opening argument in the response, and cannot post an argument in the final round. (Either forfeit or spam, or something.) However, if I am forced to go first, the debate will proceed as normal. So if all goes as planned, we will each get a normal 3 rounds to debate. http://www.debate.com/debates/To-be-decided./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T18:31:39-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/To-be-announced./1/ Gonna take an idea from some other people and do this, because I'm bored and don't know what to debate about. As you can see, this debate is 5 rounds. In the contender's round 1, he/she will propose 3 different topics of debate that COVER VARIOUS FIELDS. (I don't want 3 debates about abortion but worded differently, for example. Then in my round 2, I will choose one of the debates to well...debate on. In the contender's round 2, he/she will choose a stance on the choice (PRO or CON) and choose whether to go first or second. If he/she goes first, to keep the number of arguments per person equal, he/she must include the opening argument in the response, and cannot post an argument in the final round. (Either forfeit or spam, or something.) However, if I am forced to go first, the debate will proceed as normal. So if all goes as planned, we will each get a normal 3 rounds to debate. http://www.debate.com/debates/To-be-announced./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T19:49:10-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/Halo-3-has-more-gameplay-value-than-most-games/1/ I say this because halo 3 can be turned into A. a raving game by making a track on a map and then making a VIP vatiant with one vip and with a car B. it can be a regular shooter. C. it can be somewhat of a survival-horor* shooter with the infection varient and custom map. or D. a sports game courtesy of the geys at roosterteeth. if anyone thinks differently please respond intellegently* *probably spelled wrong* http://www.debate.com/debates/Halo-3-has-more-gameplay-value-than-most-games/1/comments/ 2008-05-17T16:50:53-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Council-on-Foreign-Relations-The-CFR-is-a-shady-organization./1/ First a background: The CFR was founded in 1921 by Colonel House(1) (a Marxist(2), ah!) and received important funding from the Rockefeller Foundation(!) and the Carnegie Foundation(!) by the late 20's.(3) It has become more and more influential since then and the longer it has been around, the more presidents there have been who are members. That's a well-known fact and can be found on the official website of the CFR as general knowledge. Example: All the presidential candidates right now? All members. (1)http://www.cfr.org/about/faqs.html (2)House was the author of the book, "Philip Dru: Administrator…" In this book House says his goal is for "socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx." (Circumstantial, but it's harder to prove he isn't a Marxist than to prove that he is which is really bad enough so go on – try it. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0839807929/qid=1006272779/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/107-2873861-4328511 (3) http://www.hirhome.com/cfr.htm (Go down real quick to th http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Council-on-Foreign-Relations-The-CFR-is-a-shady-organization./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T14:10:30-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/evolution-is-a-big-lie.-we-did-not-ocme-from-monkeys./1/ I can't imagine how you can believe we came from monkeys. doesn't it just make more sense to just say we adapted? Just because we changed our environment doesn't mean we automativally can mutate ourselves and just "evolve." When people get mutetions, they suffer from various illnesses. Can you name me ONE mutation that is positive? Just one. That's all I'm asking for. You can't, simply because there is none. We are made in the image of God, our heavenly father, so when genes in our body changes it goes from good to something bad. How can you explain how things so complex such as the eye can just have "evolved"? you can't. The fact is, evolution takes faith. How you can believe in something that is so absurd with no evidence is beyond me. Do you realize the probability of us getting here by "chance" is so miniscule that it takes more faith for you to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in unicornes. Every time I talk to athiests, they can't back their claimes up. All t http://www.debate.com/debates/evolution-is-a-big-lie.-we-did-not-ocme-from-monkeys./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T14:06:51-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/It-is-not-unreasonable-for-a-Libertarian-to-support-Barack-Obama./1/ More specifically, Libertarianism is the freedom to do as you will as long as it does not harm anybody else. This includes fiscal conservativeness while maintaining liberal social views. Of course, Barack Obama has views that differ from Libertarianism but he is a candidate who is good with Libertarian issues and can win. As Libertarians we often have to choose between voting for a candidate we agree with more or voting for a candidate who can win and has a large amount of acceptable views. Barack Obama is such a candidate. I am also arguing that is unwise for a Libertarian to vote for a candidate who cannot win even if they have many Libertarian views. - Obama supports the ending of No Child Left Behind, which will lesser the government and imporove education. - Obama supports civil rights for all people like Libertarians. - Obama supports lower taxes for the middle class like Libertarians. - Obama wants to crack down on mortgage fraud. Libertarians are huge on crime, es http://www.debate.com/debates/It-is-not-unreasonable-for-a-Libertarian-to-support-Barack-Obama./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T12:24:40-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-evolution-is-a-lie-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys/1/ 1 debate per person please. 1 debate per person please. I can't imagine how you can believe we came from monkeys. doesn't it just make more sense to just say we adapted? Just because we changed our environment doesn't mean we automativally can mutate ourselves and just "evolve." When people get mutetions, they suffer from various illnesses. Can you name me ONE mutation that is positive? Just one. That's all I'm asking for. You can't, simply because there is none. We are made in the image of God, our heavenly father, so when genes in our body changes it goes from good to something bad. How can you explain how things so complex such as the eye can just have "evolved"? you can't. The fact is, evolution takes faith. How you can believe in something that is so absurd with no evidence is beyond me. Do you realize the probability of us getting here by "chance" is so miniscule that it takes more faith for you to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in unicornes. Every ti http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-evolution-is-a-lie-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys/1/comments/ 2008-05-17T09:27:30-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/The-theory-of-evolution-is-a-lie.-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys/1/ 1 debate per person please. I can't imagine how you can believe we came from monkeys. doesn't it just make more sense to just say we adapted? Just because we changed our environment doesn't mean we automativally can mutate ourselves and just "evolve." When people get mutetions, they suffer from various illnesses. Can you name me ONE mutation that is positive? Just one. That's all I'm asking for. You can't, simply because there is none. We are made in the image of God, our heavenly father, so when genes in our body changes it goes from good to something bad. How can you explain how things so complex such as the eye can just have "evolved"? you can't. The fact is, evolution takes faith. How you can believe in something that is so absurd with no evidence is beyond me. Do you realize the probability of us getting here by "chance" is so miniscule that it takes more faith for you to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in unicornes. Every time I talk to athiests, they can http://www.debate.com/debates/The-theory-of-evolution-is-a-lie.-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys/1/comments/ 2008-05-17T10:38:30-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-Evolution-is-a-lie-and-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys./1/ 1 debate per person please. I can't imagine how you can believe we came from monkeys. doesn't it just make more sense to just say we adapted? Just because we changed our environment doesn't mean we automativally can mutate ourselves and just "evolve." When people get mutetions, they suffer from various illnesses. Can you name me ONE mutation that is positive? Just one. That's all I'm asking for. You can't, simply because there is none. We are made in the image of God, our heavenly father, so when genes in our body changes it goes from good to something bad. How can you explain how things so complex such as the eye can just have "evolved"? you can't. The fact is, evolution takes faith. How you can believe in something that is so absurd with no evidence is beyond me. Do you realize the probability of us getting here by "chance" is so miniscule that it takes more faith for you to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in unicornes. Every time I talk to athiests, they can http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-Evolution-is-a-lie-and-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T11:34:21-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-Evolution-is-a-lie.-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys./2/ I can't imagine how you can believe we came from monkeys. doesn't it just make more sense to just say we adapted? Just because we changed our environment doesn't mean we automativally can mutate ourselves and just "evolve." When people get mutetions, they suffer from various illnesses. Can you name me ONE mutation that is positive? Just one. That's all I'm asking for. You can't, simply because there is none. We are made in the image of God, our heavenly father, so when genes in our body changes it goes from good to something bad. How can you explain how things so complex such as the eye can just have "evolved"? you can't. The fact is, evolution takes faith. How you can believe in something that is so absurd with no evidence is beyond me. Do you realize the probability of us getting here by "chance" is so miniscule that it takes more faith for you to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in unicornes. Every time I talk to athiests, they can't back their claimes up. All t http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-Evolution-is-a-lie.-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys./2/comments/ 2008-05-17T13:24:38-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-Evolution-is-a-lie.-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys./1/ I can't imagine how you can believe we came from monkeys. doesn't it just make more sense to just say we adapted? Just because we changed our environment doesn't mean we automativally can mutate ourselves and just "evolve." When people get mutetions, they suffer from various illnesses. Can you name me ONE mutation that is positive? Just one. That's all I'm asking for. You can't, simply because there is none. We are made in the image of God, our heavenly father, so when genes in our body changes it goes from good to something bad. How can you explain how things so complex such as the eye can just have "evolved"? you can't. The fact is, evolution takes faith. How you can believe in something that is so absurd with no evidence is beyond me. Do you realize the probability of us getting here by "chance" is so miniscule that it takes more faith for you to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in unicornes. Every time I talk to athiests, they can't back their claimes up. All t http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Theory-of-Evolution-is-a-lie.-We-did-not-come-from-monkeys./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T18:41:26-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/There-is-an-immoral-side-of-the-Pro-Life-side-of-Abortion./1/ The "Right to Life" movement claims to be the moral side of the abortion issue, but there are things which are highly immoral about making it illegal to perform an abortion. First of all, it is very likely that this child will be unwanted, and unwanted children aren't going to be treated well. It is also likely that this child will be brought up in poverty, either in an orphanage, or in a poor household. It is fair to assert therefore that there is a high probability that this child will grow up in misery. It is therefore immoral,and irresponsible for the government to make it illegal to prevent such a tragic situation. It would also be difficult for the parrents who planed the abortion,and so outlawing an abbortion will make it painfull for the parrents and children alike. The population of the Planet is growing at a very rapid rate. Before World War Two the population of Earth was at about two billion people. Now the population of Earth is at about six billion peop http://www.debate.com/debates/There-is-an-immoral-side-of-the-Pro-Life-side-of-Abortion./1/comments/ 2008-05-16T20:56:54-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/Welfare-should-exist/1/ Let me begin by stating the definition of Welfare. Financial or other aid provided, especially by the government, to people in need. - www.answers.com That being said, why should we refuse to help the very people who come to America for freedom and a good lifestyle. They vote for president too, so why should be left in the dirt while we stay rich and happy. If you remember a certain document that states this? I present the declaration of independence! "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm Now i let my opponent take the floor. http://www.debate.com/debates/Welfare-should-exist/1/comments/ 2008-05-17T18:54:02-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/Attending-church-creates-makes-a-person-more-relgious-and-in-effect-brings-you-closer-to-God./1/ Although, it is widely known that a church is a house of God, I do not believe that it is the only place where you can be connected to God. In fact, I believe that you can be close to God in any location. I think that the rules of the church are often created by the church "officials" and not from the bible. It is also common that interpretations of the bible can alter your understanding of God's word. Isn't it better to read it on your own and understand what it means to you? Many people feel that they are religious because they attend church every Sunday, through illness and different weather conditions. But isn't it possible that some of these people are just going through the motions? Some people who do not attend church on a regular basis might be seen as betraying the church or simply lazy. But these people who stay at home on sunday mornings might be more religious than those sitting in the pues trying to keep their eyes open. In the bible it clearly states that praying can take http://www.debate.com/debates/Attending-church-creates-makes-a-person-more-relgious-and-in-effect-brings-you-closer-to-God./1/comments/ 2008-05-17T08:12:15-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/Prolly-Should-Be-a-Word/1/ I think prolly should be a word because... 1. It is easier to spell. I'm not even sure how to spell probably. Is that right? 2. It is easier to say. Probably is three syllables, and makes you trip over your words. Prolly is only two syllables and makes life easier. 3. A lot of people say prolly already. It is used in text messaging, instant messaging, and in everyday talking. 4. Prolly is just a fun word to say. Say it to yourself now. It just makes you want to smile. If it doesn't, then at least it will make other people smile. In conclusion, prolly should be made a word because typing it over and over again with the little dotted red line underneath it is driving me crazy. No, I'm just kidding. ;-) Prolly should be made a word for people who have accents and say it already will be given a break. I just like the word prolly and I think that you should too. Saying prolly is just like people saying yal or ain't, except I don't know how to spell yal. Sorry! Thanks http://www.debate.com/debates/Prolly-Should-Be-a-Word/1/comments/ 2008-05-16T18:29:02-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Big-Bang-Theory-Does-Not-Require-A-Singularity-At-T-0/1/ There is a common mistake regarding the Big Bang Theory that all correct formulations of it require a singularity to occur at the very beginning of time. This is based on the flawed assumption that general relativity is applicable by itself during all periods of time going back to pre-Planck Time. This is simply not so: I seek to show that the need for quantum gravity arises before time zero occurs, and that recent findings in quantum gravity demonstrate that a singularity does not actually occur and that spacetime never attains infinitely small values of volume. http://www.debate.com/debates/The-Big-Bang-Theory-Does-Not-Require-A-Singularity-At-T-0/1/comments/ 2008-05-17T10:37:08-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/Paying-into-the-current-social-security-system-should-be-mandatory/1/ My opening argument is very simple. 1) Social security is not even. People do not get the same amount of money as someone did 30 years ago. Soon all of the baby boomers will reach retirement age and the social security funds will dry up. Most of these social security funds will come from younger Americans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)#Claim_that_it_is_a_pyramid_scheme 2) Social security discriminates against the poor, as they pay an extra social security tax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)#Claim_that_it_discriminates_against_the_poor_and_middle-class 3) It gives a very low amount of money back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)#Claim_that_it_gives_a_low_rate_of_return 4) I recommend that the social security system sets up private savings accounts. These savings will not be used for government purposes and they will not be moved to other accounts unless decided so by the owner of the http://www.debate.com/debates/Paying-into-the-current-social-security-system-should-be-mandatory/1/comments/ 2008-05-17T16:19:56-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/Americans-are-ruled-by-the-Tyranny-of-Popular-Opinion-./1/ Americans are ruled by popular opinion. We talk a lot and understand little. For Example: Music Some people think rap is bad, others think rap is good. Ask a person why they think rap is bad or good and they will find it difficult to explain themselves, or, at best, they will give vague and superficial explanations. Granted that opinion has existed for ages, we Americans have taken it to a new level. We live for our opinions and love our bias. We have taken it so far that we are afraid of truth. Why is this? It is very simple, we care more about what other people think of us then ourselves. I recently got into a debate with a so-called devout Christian. At the end I proclaimed that Christianity is the worst religion to see her reaction. She said you don't know that. I then said God is fake. She screamed that's not true. I asked why. She yelled you have to have faith. I could have kept going but I would have received more of these "quick-exit" answers. Her screaming and y http://www.debate.com/debates/Americans-are-ruled-by-the-Tyranny-of-Popular-Opinion-./1/comments/ 2008-05-15T18:46:17-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/the-usfg-should-substantially-increase-public-health-assistance-to-sub-Saharan-Africa/1/ Observation 1: inherency 1.The current US aid programs are sending aid with a neoliberal mind set Sanders 01 Accompanying neoliberal reforms of the macro-economy have been health sector reforms. Key components include user fees, insurance schemes and introduction of managed competition; and rationing of health care through the identification of public health and clinical "packages", comprising a set of (often limited) interventions. 2.And western hopes of improving the African economy are based on western ideals of improving trade liberalization. Bonds 07 However, what becomes clear from all these events is the establishment's urge to merely revise and restate mainstream conceptions of Africa's plight. Witness Tony Blair's Commission for Africa report, for example. Africa is poor, ultimately, because its economy has not grown The public and private sectors need to work together to create a climate which unleashes the entrepreneurship of the peoples of Africa, generates employme http://www.debate.com/debates/the-usfg-should-substantially-increase-public-health-assistance-to-sub-Saharan-Africa/1/comments/ 2008-05-15T19:28:06-08:00 http://www.debate.com/debates/zero-is-greater-than-infinity/1/ I believe that Zero is greater than infinity, this is because any number from one to infinity multiplied by infinity is infinity but any number at all!!! multiplied by zero is zero even if its multiplied by infinity. http://www.debate.com/debates/zero-is-greater-than-infinity/1/comments/ 2008-05-15T19:08:05-08:00