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Why bother debating? Both Christianity (and all other Spiritual and or Religious beliefs) and Atheism require faith for the adherents to believe them, ergo Atheism is a Religion based on a belief that life as we know it occurred as the result of a mere coincidence (or actually billions of equally unlikely coincidences).

The problem for Atheists is, having arrived at their belief that God doesn't exist, they still are unable to answer the simple question, "From whence did it all come?" "What is the origin of the energy/mass which caused the universe to form?" Those who believe in God reply "God created it." He is the alpha and the omega.

Atheists are forced to reply...ummm...well...I kinda, had to, pull that one out of my a$$.

See atheism just doesn't work. So the debate is pointless. It's a debate between two religious views one involving God and the other involving coincidences and one's a$$.

Frankly, I've seen far too many miracles in my own life and those of others to believe in someone else's a$$. I'll trust in God.

"The problem for Atheists is, having arrived at their belief that God doesn't exist, they still are unable to answer the simple question, "From whence did it all come?" "What is the origin of the energy/mass which caused the universe to form?" Those who believe in God reply "God created it." He is the alpha and the omega."

No, belief in God puts you no closer. If you say "God created it" then the next question is simply, "Where did God come from?"

"Atheism is a Religion based on a belief that life as we know it occurred as the result of a mere coincidence (or actually billions of equally unlikely coincidences)."

Addressing the "mere coincidence" part, this is incorrect. Nobody who seriously thinks about the origin of life believes life is the result of "billions of equally unlikely coincidences".

It is the result of a complex dynamic process that follows from the rules of chemistry.

The process is like that of a snowflake crystalizing out of liquid water. If you only look at the constituent atoms of a snowflake it looks exeedingly unlikely that such a structure could form randomly. And that is true. But randomness has nothing to do with it. The structure formed becuase the water molecules behaved according to the rules of chemistry when it formed.

It would be impossible to predict in advance exactly what snowflake crystal you would get, but that you would get one is certain. Snowflakes are not unlikely. Neither is life.