Science Debate Topics for Kids — page 2

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• Con insisted:"It must be the same person on the other end, and not a replica since nobody on Star Trek expected to cease to exist while another took their place." Rebuttal: Again, my opponent assumes that personhood is lost in transport. Since the observable science dictates…
• Con said:" They work....by reassembling them from the information and the original parts." Rebuttal: Indeed. The Star Trek version of the technology does not follow an entirely rational method. However, that is not the burden. Consider the round one established guideline:…

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• He's accusing me that I committed several logical fallacies! I love philosophy and will explain to the reader how all my opponent's arguments fall short. Definition Battle My opponent spent half of his last round accusing me that I've changed the definition. He alleges that I…
• It rained on me in Montreal, so I learned all what I need to know to defend the resolution. My opponent seems to argue that this resolution is basically a "Rain of the Gaps" argument, which is similar to God of the Gaps argument [1]. While I also hate these types of arguments,…

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• My opponent essentially forfeited the debate. First, microevolution leads to macroevolution. Here is an analogy as to how this works: Talk.Origins notes:Microevolution and macroevolution are different things, but they involve mostly the same processes. Microevolution is defined…
• It is obvious my opponent has no understanding of evolution or what evolution teaches. I will try my best to defend my arguments while correcting his misconceptions. My opponent begins by having a misconception of speciation. First, it should be noted that speciation has been…

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• Space exploration pays for itself by inspiring funders.
• Multinational space programs are good for international diplomacy.

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• Wth are you blazing? Pass it over. I don't know what you are trying to say with your fly analogy. Because if a fly landed on the light it would appear to be at the top of the light anywhere you stand in the room. The reason you would need to skype someone would be because you…
• If you take a telescope and observe that everything is spherical why isn't the earth a sphere? We can see our moon is a sphere and you can see moon orbit other planets, we also don't see any plane type planet out there. Another easy experiment you can do is to just look at the…

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• Thank you for accepting. I look forward to this debate. I do condede on the technicality that humans are indeed amnimals - so from now on I suppose I will debate that humans are smarter than OTHER animals. Humans are the only creatures on earth that have the ability to…
• Humans are the smartest creatures on this earth, and have proved so time and time again. Every other animal, whether they fall under the category of mammals or reptiles, or any other form, are not as smart as humans are. 3 round debate. Thank you in advance.

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• This argument occured to me a few years ago, and although I've shared it with various people, this is the first time I've really subjected it to scrutiny from a person attempting to debunk it. I appreciate that my opponent has not dropped the ball.In the last round, I gave a…
• And thank you audience for coming to tonight's debates. I know that many of you would like to believe aliens have visited earth because the very thought of it is exciting, and it stirs the imagination. It makes movies more interesting if you can entertain the idea. I hope this…

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• we have the technology to go to mars by 2020 - way before the mass extinction is due to happen. We've got the suits, We've got the technology to get oxygen, we've got everything we need to get to mars. Oh there's that little problem about money- but we are talking about a world…
• Why not colonize Mars? People are dying- we cannot afford to cross our fingers and hope that we will escape the mass extinction that has been predicted. The out comes predicted are 1. global flooding- by 2100, the statue of liberty will be up to it's armpits in water. And…

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• Ummm. I am discussing the fact that some people think the earth is flat like a map. But I guess it isn't worth arguing.
• Con may start

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• Given that this universe is ca. 15 billion years old Given that earth has existed ca. 5 billion years and carbon based life in some form for the majority of that time. Given that carbon has existed since this universe was ca. 5 billion years old i.e. after first generation…
• What I do contend is that there has been more than sufficient time for someone else (carbon based or not) to do so, many times over on many different planets. Why haven't they?There are millions of possibilities why. First of all, humans...From my contention it is clear I am…

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• I will be making four claims to support my argument: [C1] Proof [C2] Interesting ≠ Practicality [C3] Prime Numbers are Awesome [C4] Other Ways of Identifying and Classifying Numbers [Claim #1] Proof You can actually explicitly prove (albeit in a slightly-humorous fashion) that…
• Starting a relatively casual-style debate for anyone interested. I am for the idea that every single whole number can be considered interesting, and my opponent will try to convince us the resolution is false. I will provide all necessary definitions I can think of. (Feel free…

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• Yes I know, this is the first debate I've started and I thought I was just reviewing my first argument. If you would like to I can restart this debate.
• Aliens surely do exist. I am not saying that they exist within our galaxy or the other galaxies near the Milky Way, but I am saying that it can not be possible for us to be the only life in an infinite universe.

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• A nice Guten Tag. And thank you for joining my debate. So now lets begin. First of all, we know that Europa is one of the top high objects with potential life. However it has a lack of research to be honest. The Pioneers,Voyagers and the Galileo spacecrafts have flyby and…
• Hello, this debate is about if we should research the Jupiter's Galilean moon Europa, more then we do now. And of course, we should put more effort to research other Galilean satellites. Con should present a reason why we aren't supposed to research Europa more, or even not at…

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• Welcome to the last round! There is so much pressure involved!! First off, you have said that when I (or anybody else) are on a boat, you can't see the bottom. Well, judging by my profile info, you need to trust me when I say that the reason you can't see the bottom is that the…
• OMG... Con is my best friend. LOL, I WILL DESTROY UUU....(MUWAHAHAHAHAHA)

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• I will sit on you, Bench
• God, you're funny as hell!…

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• Based Geographical, Historical and Biological evidence I think its reasonable to believe that during the course of the evolution of our species, we may have shared a common ancestor with what we may call a mermaid. The evidence of this position will be based on verified…
• This was a fail

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• hawtguyluvu Many people are familiar with the prophecies of Nostradamus, however, few are familiar with the works of his younger brother Pete. While Nostradamus is so often credited with the predictions of major travesties like the reign of Hitler or the Kennedy assassination,…
• All good points, but the question really revolves around the quantitative introspective approach to this conundrum which is summarized partially by the Quantum Cosmological Differentiation concept and the third law of Dynamic Responsiveness. The Quantum Cosmological…

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• I love you, you are my squishy.Therefore I urge the voters to vote Tie, then when the voting period is over change your votes, eat a pic save your life.
• Muted forfeited this round.

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• My worthy friend forfeited I thank him for the debate :)
• I forfeited due to school being in session I can't debate as often forgive me. Thanks for the debate :), I will cut too the chase. Ok the lighting around it was like an eerie white light, I had my room light off. I doubt I hallucinated, I saw them clearly. I don't know what…

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• 1)Wikepedia anyone that knows anything about research would realize an analytical is WAY better than using wikepedia wikepedia is like writing something down in a notebook and trying to use it as pure evidence 2)Proof their is proof. although their might not be 100% legitimate…
• I'd first off like to state every single one of his cards are from wikepedia... anyone can write anything on wikepedia. 1) aliens alot of things have never been established scientifically.. but many people have spotted aliens and still the existence of only us living in the…

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• Rebuttals: Unless you can show me a biological path to intelligence that can live without water, fertile soil and atmosphere my point trumps. The reason is if we are to find life or right now we are only looking for life on earthlike planets. We should not even assume…
• Alright newbie Jk. Scientists always look for life, we have sonar and satellite telescopes. We can observe a small fraction of space but still in the range 20 Billion Planets. Not just regular planets but Earth-like planets. The problem is no life is on them. If life in space…

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• You can struggle against scientific evidence all you want. I provided evidence, your provide conjecture. Thanks for the debate.
• Yes, it is possible, but highly unlikely. First due to the scientific method taking rigorous effort to make sure scientists are objective as possible and second due to brain imagining technology. [1] We literally can see inside an animal's brain. We can see the neural…

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• As much as I can agree ISS is not really 250-400 miles up, it's still high enough to see earth's curvature but NASA has sent probes to space taking pictures of earth but they all must be faked, right? And trust me, we have been to the moon and seen a ball shaped earth…
• It's a pleasure to rematch you. Refutation of opponent's points, I'll start with the easiest. Gyroscopes: Actually gyroscopes do not prove the Earth's shape whatsoever, but surprisingly, they did a gyroscope experiment and it appeared to prove Earth's rotation…

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• We could spend a long time with what is "possible", but here I want to focus on the most probable. You suggest that distance does not matter. I disagree. I severely doubt that anywhere is there technology to instantly transport matter. This seems more like magic than science.…
• Thank you for accepting my debate, and now, onto your arguments… "Firstly, with potentially billions of billions of trillions of planets in however many galaxies as exist in the universe (I don't know the estimation, but I believe you get the point that there are lots of…

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• well played
• Looks like my opponent is a troll, oh well what a shame. It is pretty amusing since this is my first time seeing a troll on this website, on my debate! :)

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• Yes, but: 1)You must transport all the water to be consumed by the present generation and for those to come. Transportation also poses problem. 2)" and we could definitely use oxygen tanks" yes, but for how long?. 3)"And the atmosphere is polluted anyways" But is it so much…
• Thank you for accepting. _________________________________________________________ 1)" I think that it would be great to live on the moon because there would be so much that we could learn. " Of course because it is a new planet :). But that does not mean that the moon is…

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• How do they not exist ?? Whilst we currently don't have any conclusive, solid evidence that aliens exist, we also don't have any evidence to say that they don't exist. If you put a cat in a box, and leave it there for a year without food and water (then you would be a very…

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• It is much cheaper to colonize Antarctica than Mars. Not to mention, colonizing Mars is many generations away from being possible. Colonizing Antarctica is very possible right now. They could use wind turbines for electricity for heat and lights and they'd be able to receive…
• My opinion is that we should start colonizing Antarctica before Mars. I say this because it is much easier to colonize Antarctica than Mars. This is because you can actually breath in Antarctica, there is an abundance of fresh water, and there are already bases in Antarctica…

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• Hello I would like to revolutionize you're understanding of our exquisite house hold avocado. The Floor is yours.
• HOW DARE YOU! My beautifully handcrafted avocado balls are the most divine source of life, AND FOR YOU TO STAND THERE AND SAY SUCH SLANDEREROUS ACCUSATIONS ABOUT MY GENITALIA, IS DOWN RIGHT TREASON.

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• Uhhhhhh....... woah Thank you GodSands for accepting my debate. First, to refute your arguments. "As a devoted Christian you need to be sure what is real and what is not, according to your own self in a journey with God. I for one despise the whole idea of evolution as a false…
• Uh. I affirm the resolution. Any contenders? Let's debate!

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• Zombies are going to eat you for that.
• OK cool.

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• "Regardless of who and what produced these images, the point stands. Images can be faked. This leaves doubt. My opponent, in order to provide irrefutable evidence that we live on a spinning ball, must do so beyond all doubt. Since Photoshop and its cousins exist, this should be…
• "My opponent assumes this will be an easy debate I see. News flash, pictures aren't infallible evidence for anything. They are unsourced, and I have no idea if they are even real or not"My opponent seems to have missed the obvious implication, which I honestly did not think…

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• Extend.
• Extend.

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• My opponent has not even addressed the resolution. This is very disappointing, and I wonder why he even bothered to accept the debate seeing as he clearly doesn't care about the physics of the problem at hand. In case the voters need to be reminded (as my opponent clearly…
• This is something I've been thinking about for a while now. I believe this is a possibility due to the finite velocity of light. I have taken the liberty of drawing my scenario to give my opponent a better idea of what I'm talking about here: . http://img365.imageshack.us... To…

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• I saw this earlier and found it really interesting, and was hoping someone would challenge my point of view, which is that Earth will end one day.Anyway, first round can be for acceptance or clarifying terms or even your beginning arguments if you wish.Earth - This should be…
• You haven't disputed anything I've said. All you've done is tell me I'm "toying with death" by talking about something that will happen 10^10^120 years in the future. Everything you've said is irrational, incorrect, and really just irrelevant. You've avoided most of what I have…

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• It's just legit.
• I agree with your arch keystone argument, but the rest of the arch is made with squares. Also, yes the squares are not the most important part of the games, but the makers, of the games listed, chose the square instead of any other quadrilateral. And yes the rhombus is quite…