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==REBUTTALS==My partner makes an extraordinary claim that he does not lie and knows everything. He has not proved that so please disregard my partner's arguments.==ARGUMENTS==The Slick Cosmological Argument This argument was formulated by Matt Slick, founder and president of the Christian Apologetics and research ministry. It is a type of the Kalam Cosmological Argument [1]: The universe is not infinitely old because it has not "run down." (Entropy is the phenomena of increased chaos and loss of useful energy in a system.) If the universe were infinitely old, it would have reached a state where all usable energy is gone. But, we are not in this state; therefore, the universe is not infinitely old and must have had a beginning. Because the universe has had a beginning it is not infinite in size. .It would require an infinite amount of time to become infinite in size. Since the universe had a beginning, it has not had an infinite amount of time to expand, therefore it is finite in size. The universe could not have brought itself into existence. .If something does not exist, it has no ability to perform an action by which it can bring itself into existence. If it exists so as to be able to perform an action, then it already exists. The universe was brought into existence by something other than itself. All things that come into being have causes. .There cannot be an infinite regress of events because that would mean the universe (or past universes) were infinitely old. But, this would require an infinite amount of time to be traversed in order to arrive at the present. This cannot happen since an infinite amount of time cannot be traversed. i.If the universe were infinitely old, the universe would be in a state unusable energy, which it is not. ii.If it were infinitely old, the universe would be infinitely large, which it is not. iii.If it were infinitely old, then in order for us to exist here and now, an infinite amount of time would have had to have been traversed in order to get here now. But, an infinity cannot be traversed. Since the universe is finite and had a beginning and there cannot be an infinite number of regressions of causes to bring it into existence, there must be a single uncaused cause of the universe. .A single uncaused cause of the universe must be greater in size and duration than the universe it has brought into existence. i.Otherwise, we have the uncaused cause bringing into existence something greater than or equal to itself. (Any cause that is natural to the universe is part of the universe). ii.An event that is part of the universe cannot cause itself to exit. iii.Therefore, there must be an uncaused cause outside the universe. (An uncaused cause cannot be a natural part of the universe, which we know to be finite). iv.An uncaused cause would be infinite in both space and time since it is greater than which it has caused to exist. This uncaused cause is supernatural. .By supernatural we mean it is completely 'other' than the universe is not natural to it. i.This would make the uncaused cause supernatural. ii.This supernatural uncaused cause is God. What can we glean from this? Well, since we know that the universe could not have brought itself into existence, it must have had a upernatural transcendent cause. This cause is what we call "God." Summary My argument rests on the undeniable truth that the universe is not eternal; hene it is not infinite in size. Therefore, it must have had a beginning and it is a fact something transcendent brought it into existence. Thank you for a fun debate! References [1] Slick, Matt. “The Argument from Entropy and Uncaused Causes.” https://school.carm.org......