Theism is more reasonable than Atheism

Thanks my opponent for his opening argument.Whatever begins to exist has a cause.Pro asserts that since the universe must have had a beginning, it therefore also had to have a cause. He then posits God as this cause, and claims God doesn't need a cause himself since he is eternal. However, the reason why this infinite regress doesn't apply to God is not made clear. If God can be eternal, why not the rest of existence? The visible universe may have had an apparent beginning, but doesn't prove that nothing existed before the known universe. Why should this predecessor be assumed to be God? Pro offers no explanation.The Ontological Argument.Pro here claims that God must exist by definition; that God necessarily exists because he is maximally great, and existence is part of being maximally great. However, this also means that existence is a precondition of being maximally great. God can only possess his perfections if he already exists, therefore, premise 4 does not follow.The Teleological ArgumentPro's next argument is that the universe was likely designed, and therefore likely had a designer as well. Here his reasoning is flawed as well- while the universe has the appearance of design, in reality this is an illusion. Perhaps he imagines (as an example) that God likes beautiful things, and therefore made Saturn's rings or flowers. But his own "beauty" circuitry determines what is beautiful and not beautiful to him. The human mind is built to make sense of the world through abstraction and this creates the illusion of beauty and order made specifically for us, when it is actually us who have adapted to the universe.Contrary to my opponent's claims, evolution by natural selection isn't a random process. While the genetic mutations themselves may appear randomly, the natural selection of specific mutations is highly deterministic. If a gene aids survival in a given environment then it is selected by means of the survival and reproduction of the individuals carrying that gene, slowly altering the entire population of organisms towards certain biological adaptations. Similarly, if the trait is detrimental to survival, it will be selected out and will be carried over to the next generation fewer times.DNA likely gradually from a simpler replicator. In fact, it is quite well established and easy to conceptually understand how it would evolve to be so complex: 1. [http://www.evolutionofdna.com...]Pro's point about energy having to be created seems to be merely a rehashing of his "first cause" argument. He simply states that there is no explanation for why energy exists besides God. This could be applied to anything if we follow this reasoning further- why does anything exist? My response is that the question does not really need to be answered, as the same reasoning could be applied to God. Why did God exist rather than nothing? And if he could exist without cause, again, why couldn't the the rest of existence?God is necessary for morality.Fallacy #1: The Euthyphro Dilemma.Pro says that God is necessary for morality to exist. He gives no definition of morality, so I will assume he means ontological basic moral facts. Immediately the reasoning fails: no reason is given as to where the objective morals actually come from. Did God give us commandments because they are right, or are they right because God commanded them? If it is the former, then morality must exist in the first place for God to know what is wrong and what is right. If it is the latter, then God's commandments are arbitrary and therefore by definition cannot be objective moral imperatives.Fallacy #2: Appeal to consequences.Even if we accept Pro's obviously flawed reasoning, he still does not consider the possibility that morality just might not exist. He has not shown that it necessarily exists, and thus it is possible to reasonably reject God and morality altogether.-------------Since I have refuted all of Pro's arguments and negated his conclusion that theism is more reasonable than atheism, I will turn the debate over to him here.