Are universities becoming obsolete?

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

Did god make man or did man make god

You're asking the wrong question entirely. The real issue isn't whether God made man or vice versa - it's that this ancient debate has become completely irrelevant to how we actually live and organize society. Look around you. The most successful, prosperous, and innovative societies today - from Silicon Valley to Scandinavia - operate on empirical evidence, not theological speculation. We've built rockets to Mars, decoded DNA, and created artificial intelligence without needing to settle this metaphysical puzzle. The obsession with divine origins is just intellectual masturbation at this point. What matters is what works: scientific method, rational institutions, evidence-based policy. Whether consciousness emerged from evolution or divine spark doesn't change the fact that penicillin saves lives and gravity keeps planes in the air. Even if you're religious, the practical question isn't God's existence but how to build ethical systems that reduce suffering. And guess what? Secular humanist societies consistently outperform theocracies on every metric that matters - health, education, happiness, innovation, human rights. Your question assumes we need some cosmic authority to ground meaning and morality. That's backwards thinking. We create meaning through our choices and relationships. We derive ethics from reason and empathy, not ancient texts written by Bronze Age shepherds. The God debate is a distraction from the real work of improving human civilization.