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My first argument is a form of the Cosmological Argument. It has three simple, deductive steps: 1) Whatever begins to exist has a cause. A) This claim is easily verified. EVERYTHING that we see come into existence has a cause. No one reading this is afraid that a ravenous lion is going to just appear in front of them. Why? Because we all know that the lion would have to be put there; the lion would have to have a cause for beginning to exist there. 2) The universe began to exist. A) My first way of verifying this claim is going to be philosophical (so read attentively). If the universe didn't exist, it would have an infinite amount of past events, an infinite amount of past things would have happened. However, an infinite amount of things cannot happen. Why? The easiest way to explain why is to show the contradictions that arise when working with infinities. Pretend that I have an infinite amount of marbles. I give you all my marbles. I have none now. Therefore, infinite minus infinite equals 0. Now pretend that I get another infinite amount of marbles. I give you half (half of infinite is infinite). Now you have an infinite amount and I have an infinite amount. Infinite minus infinite equals infinite. Earlier infinite minus infinite equaled 0. Therefore, an infinite amount of things can't exist in reality because it creates contradictions. David Hilbert,the German mathematician, sums this point up when he said, "The infinite is nowhere to be found in reality. It neither exists in nature nor provides a legitimate basis for rational thought. The role that remains for the infinite to play is solely that of an idea." Therefore, the universe could not have had an infinite amount of past events. Therefore, the universe must have had a beginning. B) My second way of verifying this claim is scientific. This way is easy. The most prevailing model of the universe for the past 75 years, the Big Bang model, shows that the universe must have had a beginning, with that beginning being called the Big Bang. 3) The universe had a cause. A) this claim follows logically from the past two premises. Having said this, I will explain the properties that this cause would have. It would exist outside of the universe, thereby being immaterial. It would be extremely powerful, in order to make the universe. It would be personal, in order to decide to make the universe (this personal, extremely powerful, and immaterial creator of the universe would be God, in case you missed that). My second argument is the Teleological Argument. The teleological argument is typically in a biological form (evolution, life, etc.). However, debating evolution is very...well...I find it too long, difficult, and unnecessary. I've found that the physical form of this argument, specifically the fine-tuning argument, is much easier and convincing. This argument has two steps. 1) The universe shows signs of extreme, extreme, extreme, literally incomprehensibly extreme fine-tuning for supporting life.(many examples of this can be shown, but I will limit myself to 2.) a) My first example will be the cosmological constant. The cosmological constant is a term in Einstein's equation that, when positive, acts like a repulsive forces and, when negative, acts as a contracting force. The cosmological constant must be extremely small in order to have the correct amount of repulsion in the universe. Robin Collins (an Associate Professor of Philosophy) states that the odds of the cosmological constant falling into a life-permitting range are 1 to 10^53. That may not look that massive, but, for comparison, recognize the fact that the number of seconds since the beginning of the universe is 10^18. The odds that the cosmological constant would permit life, written in its full form is 1 to 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. B) My next example of fine-tuning is gravity. I'm sure that we all know what gravity is so I will not explain it. Robin Collins also estimates that the odds of gravity being in the life-permitting range are 1 to 10^36. This, written in full form, is 1 to 1000000000000000000000000000000000000. 2) This extreme fine-tuning requires a designer. A) This fine-tuning obviously requires a designer. For anyone to claim that this degree of fine-tuning occurred by chance is ridiculous. Now, I will examine some of the properties of this designer. These examples of fine-tuning occurred at the creation of the universe. The fact that this designer existed to design them at the beginning of the universe shows that this designer exists outside the universe. This designer would also have to be extremely powerful, in order to design the universe. This designer would also have to be personal, in order to want to design the universe to such an extreme level to support life (this immaterial, powerful, and personal designer would be God, by the way).