Hey everybody. Tonight we're debating whether or not God exists and we are starting right now.

With Stewart's opening statement, thanks so much for being with us.

Stuart, the floor is all yours.

James, appreciate you having me on.

David, a pleasure. Looking forward to tonight, just totally

wiping the floor with you, of course, every time. Opening statement, we'll just get right to it.

You know, I think atheism is a faith.

I don't want to trigger David or any atheists tonight,

so I won't go as far as saying it's a religion. But I think it's a faith. an

so I won't go as far as saying it's a religion, but I think it's a faith just like Christianity.

There are faith assumptions, presumptions, and there are many things you cannot prove just like the starting question of

does this universe have a beginning does God exist you can even go to

They're all philosophical questions obviously that we're talking about, or at

least the vast majority of them tonight. And so things like human rights, for

example, one of my points will be morality.

I believe that there certainly are objective morals.

And in thinking through objective morals,

I often connect it to, okay,

where do ethics come into play? Where do something like do ethics come into play?

Where do something like human rights come into play?

From an atheistic perspective,

I think atheists can be good people.

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