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But isn't philosophy used to try and justify belief in god by people like William Lane Craig? It seems to me that since Anselm philosophy has been used this way and is, indeed, still a significant study.

Start one then so we can carry on discussion.

Well there aren't to many possibilities to deal with the creation of the universe so far as I know. There is the math that takes us back to the point a few fractions of a second before the Big Bang and there is the Background Microwave Radiation which has the potential to perhaps see back before...

Isn't creating ex nihilo enough to be omnipotent?

Surely God is depicted in the Bible as a person not a blind force. Surely,too, he must be outwith the universe as it isn then universe that the Bible tells us he created (or rather a flat earth with a bubble over the top with the stars set in with heaven sitting atop it.) What is within the...

Yet despite the various biblical passages, doesn't theology come up with some descriptive words about God? Omnipotent Omniscient Omni-beneficent Surely these are as much a description of what God is loike as much as biblical passages? The OP was trying to show that God was a sum of all the...

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I'm not quite sure I understand this question really. True the various forces and energy in the universe do what they do and we can, in the main, calculate this and predict it. Sure we have some way to go towards a unified theory but that will eventually come and we will understand the universe...