God created the universe

I would like to emphasize to the viewers that I do not claim to know anything 100%. Neither I nor my opponent KNOW if there is a God or not. The point of this debate is for me to argue that there is a higher probability that there is a God who created the universe than that there is not. This round is for opening statements/arguments. I will limit my argument to 5 arguments for the sake of time. 1. The Cause and Effect Argument - Everything we experience in our universe has a cause. Our experiences are like Dominos, every effect we see had a preceding cause that brought it about. - The universe appears to have had a beginning (aka The Big Bang). I argue that God is the force that brought about the universe, He is what existed before the singularity and CAUSED the singularity to exist. - Even if you hold to the B theory of time, that is that time is an illusion, than we still have an effect (the existence of the block universe) that would need a cause. - Even if time is an illusion, by looking at the universe as a movie made up of 1 million+ still frames, each frame seem to lead to the next one. In other words, today seems to lead (or cause) tomorrow in that if I stay up all night tonight I will be tired tomorrow. So the universe would seem to still function on cause and effect even if time is an illusion. - Therefore, what caused the first frame to come into existence? Or the chunk of all frames? I believe it would have to be an entity that exists outside the block universe and caused it to exist. - I will also say, as I know my opponent is a follower of B time theory, that this theory has some problems with it. For example, if time is an illusion, why does it seem to flow forward? And why do we have a consciousness that seems to only be present in the present moment? Why does everything around us suggest a forward moving arrow of time - such as the expansion of the universe, aging of people, the lunar cycle, evolution, and the age of the universe by geology? Is this ALL some grand illusion set up by . . . . who? - Or could it be that God exists outside of time and space and therefore time really is an illusion that He planted into our consciousness so that we could make choices? Maybe both A and B theory are true, depending on the perspective. 2. Consciousness - This will be a quick argument. Science has no explanation for how we have come to have consciousness. Show me a study with any promise to solving this mystery. Meanwhile, God can explain this phenomenon. God gave us consciousness and this is where our free will comes from. He gives us ability to make choices and to choose between good and bad. If we had no free will, all our choices would be explained by genes and environment. The common sense feeling is that we make choices. I do not think this sense of free will is all an illusion. 3. Complex Patterns and Laws of the Universe - If there is no designer, why is the universe so diverse and complex? Is complexity just an illusion too? - The DNA code just 'exists'? A single cell just happens to be? The animal kingdom is just a pure accident? How did various plants evolve similar mechanisms to digest flies? How did various animals evolve the complex structures of eyes and wings? - In nature, we see the golden ratio repeatedly. Why? Nature just happens to be 'smart' and evolve perfect structures that abide to 'laws' of math? - Random mutations in humans are majority of the time harmful. So how do you explain the evolution from cell to human? - The second law of thermodynamics is contradictory to the theory of evolution. The law of entropy says that the chaos of the universe should be increasing, not decreasing. - If I see a bunch of random letters on a age and then I see a beautiful sonnet, do I assume the letters just randomly formed into a poem or do I assume there is a mind behind the poem? 4. Probability - If the universe had no planner, why does it appear that a singularity expanded into a universe that is infinitely large and yet only has life on one planet that is perfectly fine-tuned for life. I will not bore you all with formulas, but I think we all can agree the probability of rolling a die with a single value out of 1 million is near impossible. But the creation of life is not even as likely as rolling a number on a die, because really why should it even be possible for a singularity to expand and create a planet Earth that is fine-tuned for human life? By fine-tuned, I mean look at one example - the expansion of water. If water did not expand when frozen, it would sink and kill the fish. Another example, the sun is the exact perfect distance from the Earth. I'm sure there are more examples, but you get the point. The chance of all of this happening is mathematically speaking impossible. And yet, here we are. Science cannot tell us why. 5. If there is no God, why do we have a string sense of right vs wrong? I realize there are psychopaths, but majority of people feel like there are moral absolutes. We struggle to fine tune the details here, but we all generally agree murder is wrong, stealing is wrong, etc. This sense seems ingrained in us. I argue that there is no objective morality without God, and the strong sense we have that there exists an objective morality is because God gave us this sense. Science answers what we see. Be brave enough to consider the 'why. '