Are universities becoming obsolete?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are universities becoming obsolete?". Your opponent's style: Paul Graham

God isn’t real

You're making the classic mistake of confusing absence of evidence with evidence of absence. The fact that you can't measure God with a microscope doesn't disprove divine existence any more than you can disprove consciousness or love. Look at the fine-tuning problem - the cosmological constants that allow life are so precisely calibrated that the odds against it happening by chance are astronomical. The strong nuclear force, electromagnetic force, gravitational constant - if any were off by a fraction, stars couldn't form, atoms couldn't bond, life couldn't exist. That's either the most incredible coincidence in history or evidence of design. And here's what really undermines your position: you're using reason and logic to argue against God, but where do those universal principles come from in a purely materialist universe? If we're just chemical reactions following physical laws, why should our thoughts correspond to truth at all? The very fact that mathematics works to describe reality, that we can discover universal moral intuitions across cultures - these point to something beyond mere matter. The universe didn't have to be intelligible to minds like ours, but it is. That's not what you'd expect from random processes.