Dear Loudmouth, I like to have a sustained exchange with you.
You see, you want evidence for God existing, that is a legitimate demand.
Now, you say that my concept of God, namely, that God in concept is first and foremost the creator and operator of the universe and man and everything with a beginning, is to you a belief.
Okay, that is very good from your part, about my concept of God is a belief.
Is that all right with you that we will call that concept above of God as a belief concept?
So, let us go together into the objective realm of reality which is the universe and man and everything that has a beginning; all these things are outside our mind and outside of belief concepts in our mind.
We will look for evidence in all these things, which evidence will validate the belief concept, namely, of the concept of God, as first and foremost the creator and operator of the universe and man and everything with a beginning, that the belief concept is true, is a fact, is according to logic, and supported in the history of ideas.
And wherefore God exists.
Is that all right with you?
You've presented the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
As an atheist, I find this fails to be convincing a convincing argument for the existence of God following reasons:
1. It is an exercise in sophistry. It merely defines God into existence as a necessary cause, without providing any evidence of such a being;
2. It is a case of special pleading - all things in reality have a beginning, except God
3. I find both premises of the Kalam to be undemonstrated at best, and flat out wrong in most interpretations
4. A logical proof is only evidence that a logically coherent argument can be made using certain premises. Argument by syllogism is irrelevant without any confirming evidence
5. The universe may be eternal - we know that space-time started, but we don't know positively that a contraction/expansion 'Big Wobble' can be ruled out
6. Accepting the Kalam can only lead to the belief in a creator, a generalised, non-interventionist, non-manifesting deity. Which is indistinguishable from no God at all.
Those are my initial objections. I have others, if you want
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