In the concluding speeches, Araujo summarized his arguments and then apologized to anyone that he or his partner might have offended in the audience.
"We don't mean to give you hell," he said. "We only mean to convince you that you don't need to worry about it."
Pittard concluded his side of the debate on a more serious note, challenging audience members to "fully put [their] trust in God."
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Audience member Paul E. Mussman '00, a Catholic, said he thought the debate was eloquent, but that he was expecting different arguments.
"I don't think that the issues addressed were really what the debate was about," he said. "It also turned into a chicken-and-the-egg debate over whether God or the universe came first."