The Following Arguments for the Existence of God are Valid - 1J

Thanks for the debate, and I hope it will be both informative and enjoyable! I am choosing to argue for the existence of God as a metaphysically supreme being, and creator of the universe. [Definition - God] http://www.google.com... "the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe" [Arguments] To argue in favor of a God as the creator, I must go to the beginning of the universe. What happened at the begginning of the universe? Some Athiests argue that the universe had no beginning, but is eternal. I contend this view for a couple of reasons, and therefore support the existence of a God. 1. The universe is in motion (a). If the universe had no beginning, it would have always been in motion. Were there no God, there would have been nothing to set the universe in motion, contradiction Newton's first law of motion (b). 2. Were the universe eternal, the number of past events would be infinite. Currant mathmaticians argue against the existence of an infinite number, saying it leads to contradictions, i.e. what is infinity minus infinity? (c) Mathmatician David Hilbert says: "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." (d) Since past events are real, they must not be infinite. Since they are not infinite, they must have begun at some point, this point being the beginning of the universe. (c) There are two main explaination for the beginning of the universe: Creationism, and the Big Bang Theory. The above are my arguements against the idea of an infinite universe. As stated above, the Big Bang theory is the main contender of Creationism, and Creationism states that there was a creator God. For the sake of simplicity, I will merge the beliefs of Creationism and Intelligent Design, though the two are not the same. Both affirm a metaphysically supreme being, AKA a God. My burden is to disprove the Big Bang Theory, therein leaving only the option of a metaphysically supreme being having origionated the universe, thus giving the universe it's necessary beginning. [Definition - The Big Bang Theory] http://www.google.com... "the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature" The Big Bang Theory asserts that matter exploded, and the universe was a result of that explosion. I have one main contension with this belief, and it is as follows: The belief that matter exploded is contingent on the fact that said matter existed in the first place. If the matter existed, it must have come from somwhere. Similarly, the place from whence this matter came must have come from somewhere. Similarly, this place of origion must have come from somewhere. Eventually, we must logically come to one of two conclusions; either these places of origion go back into eternity past, which, as I have shown, is not possible (c, d), or they had a beginning. Again, this beginning could be the result of two thing; it was either the result of an event similar to that of the Big Bang, or it was the result of a metaphysically supreme being's creativity. If we affirm the former, we are caught in the logical fallacy of circular reasoning. If we affirm the latter, we have a plausible, however abstract solution to the problem of the origion of the universe. [Conclusion] 1. I have Affirmed the existence of a metahysically supreme being. 2. I have argued that an eternal universe defies the first law of motion. In doing so, I have argued that the universe had a beginning. 3. I have argued that an infinite number of past events is not mathmatically possible. In doing so, I have argued that the universe had a beginning. 4. I have stated that there are two main beliefs surrounding the beginning of the universe: Creationism, and the Big Bang Theory. 5. I have concluded that the Big Bang Theory leads to the logical fallacy of circular reasoning. 6. I have concluded that the beginning of the universe must be the result of the creativity of a metaphysically supreme being, AKA a God. [Sources] (a) - http://www.space.com... (b) - http://physics.about.com... (c) - http://www.reasonablefaith.org... (d) - David Hilbert, "On the Infinite," in Philosophy of Mathematics, ed. with an Introduction by Paul Benacerraf and Hillary Putnam (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964), pp. 139, 141. [also see link d] Thanks for your attention, and may the best debator win!