God is a Delusion

Okay I will be using several logical arguments to show God exists. Firstly, I will be arguing that God is the best explanation for why anything exists rather than nothing. Now we know the universe began to exist, about 13 billion years ago, in an event called the Big Bang. Now the Big Bang represents the origin of the universe from nothing. It's not just a re-arrangement of things but literally the universe coming into being, and thus all known reality. The idea of a beginning is confirmed by the existence of a red-shift in the movements of galaxies, showing the whole universe moving apart from the bang. This is the first line of evidence showing that the universe began to exist. Also, the universe had to begin to exist at some point if the second law of thermodynamics holds true, because ifn the universe existed forever, then there would be no matter or energy in it whatever. We also know that when something begins to exist it is caused to exist by something. Otherwise tigers would appear in our living rooms. Also we know that something cannot come from nothing but from prior things that cause it to exist. This is a basic metaphysical intuition. But then our universe must have a cause for it's beginnning. It is my conviction that this cause of the universe is a transcendent reality, which is best described as God. We can summarise our argument in the following syllogism 1. everything that begins to exist, has a cause 2. the universe began to exist 3. therefore the universe has a cause This cause must transcend the space-time of the universe, at least prior to the creation of the universe, and therefore it must be timeless and immaterial. It must also possess unimaginable power, in order to create a world out of nothing. The being can also be shown to be personal, because the only being which possesses causal power is the metaphysical object of the mind, and this is a personal thing, also if the cause of the unvierse existed before the universe it existed in a timeless eternity forever. the only way an infinite cause could have a finite effect is through agent causation. This, to paraphrase Thomas Aquinas, is what most people mean when they talk about God. Secondly, I will argue that God is the best explanation for why the universe is fine-tuned for intelligent life. The universe contains many constants and quantities that make it a "Goldilocks universe" and therefore perfect for intelligent life. Now these constants and quantities are fine-tuned to within a hairs breadth for intelligent life, so much so that they are not explained as being set by chance at a one-off event in the Big Bang. They are also not explained as a natural result of laws, because these constants and quantities are arbitrary and unaffected by the strengths of various laws in physics. The only other reasonable explanation for them is design and so if both blind luck and chance are not explanations for the fine-tuning, the result is we must accept an intelligent being caused the fine-tuning. We can summarize this argumengt like this 1. the fine-tuning of the constants and quantities of the universe for intelligent life is due either to chance necessity or design 2. it is not due to chance or design 3. therefore it is due to design A final argument for God I will make is the argument from objective moral values and duties. Now we all apprehend that there are certain moral oughts, ie things we should do to be good or bad. But these morals would have no fundation without some authority.The best way to account for these objectives values and duties is by posting the existence of God. Thus 1. if objective moral values and duties do not exist, then God does not exist 2. but at least one moral value or duty exists 3. therefore, God exists