Atheism (Con) vs. The Existence of God (Pro)

IntroductionI would like to thank SubterFugutive for responding and giving me his arguments towards theism and the existence of God. As this is the beginning of round 3, it is time for rebuttals. In this round, I shall go through Pro's arguments and facts, and talk about what is correct about what he said and what is incorrect.RebuttalsIn Pro's first argument, he is talking about a personal cosmos. In his explanation, he stated that we, as humans, have the ability to interact with our environments, which we perceive as beautiful. I have an argument about that: The reason we can interact with our environment is because we have evolved to do so. We perceive the environment as beautiful because we have evolvolved to like and feel comfortable with our environment. In Pro's next argument, he went on to speak about reality, and how it cannot be thoroughly explained with Atheism. In my opinion, however, it can. Theism says that God created the Universe, but it does not explain who or what created God. It's the same paradox.After those two points, Pro went on to talk more about reality and time. He stated that "everything is temporally contingent like this, then there was a state in which nothing existed; in which case nothing presently exists, which is absurd." In this quote, I believe Pro was talking about entropy, which can actually explain the big bang from an Atheist's perspective. From an Atheist's perspective, the small area of energy that existed exactly before the big bang, was released because of entropy, hence causing the big bang."I will argue that this fact is readily explained on theism, but a mystery on atheism."As a stated earlier, Theism hits a dead end. According to Theism, God created the universe after God created himself. According to Atheism, however, the big bang was caused by entropy. However, that does in fact lead to a dead end as well. Now, the only problem left with Theism is the fact that if there were a God, why would he create a universe? Furthermore, how would God create himself?In Pro's next statment, he stated that an 'unlimited being' has unlimited power and capabilities. This statement is actually an attempt to prove that God could create himself as well as the Universe. This, however, goes along with what I just stated: How could a nonexistant being come into being? and why would God create the Universe? In the next statment, Pro talks about the cause of the universe. As I stated in round 2, Stephen Hawking "stated in his show on The Science Channel, Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking (IMDB), that God could not have created the Universe because no time existed before the Universe for any God to create it. This is a highly realistic fact." Although, Pro also said that there are two explanations for the creation of the Universe: The scientific proof, being physics, and the personal proof, being "non-physical explanations." In my opinion, as well as the opinions of scientists, physics explains the cause of the universe. It follows rules."Thus it is very plausible that the first Cause is an extremely intelligent and very powerful person acting purposively."So, what caused "the first Cause"? If there has to be a cause to the Universe, there must be a cause to the Cause, correct?"So if Con is even to get off the ground with atheism, he must either deny evolution or answer this challenge""why think it is more likely that reason should emerge if some of the fundamental causes of the universe are not more like a mind?"Because I cannot deny a fact such as evolution, I will answer Pro's challenge: Pro is asking about why logic exists in the universe if an intelligent mind did not create the universe. This question is a great question, for it challenges physics. However, it is very easy to answer: The universe would not continue to exist if there were no logical laws of nature. As you stated in your definitions in round 1, "Hawking estimates that if the expansion rate decreased in 1 part in a hundred thousand million million, one second after the Big Bang, our universe would have re-collapsed a long time ago." That explains that the Universe was created in just the right way for logic and reason to come into being. If it had been different, logic, reason, and physics would not exist, hense rendering the Universe obsolete. ConclusionAs I believe I have stated all the rebuttals necessary, I shall allow Pro to argue against the arguments I stated in round 2. I look forward to seeing his feedback and hope he can manage to prove Atheism false.MLA CitationsStephen Hawking's Universe. IMDB, Web. 6 March 2014.