Belief in God is rational

My opponent has chosen to stick primarily to his argument that God is the ‘mover’ and therefore must exist. He ignores my arguments outside of the realm of cosmology – and accuses me of arguing “past my previous round” – If you mean that I set up my own arguments, then yes, that is what I have done. If something is the cause of everything, then what is the cause of something? If we assume that a metaphysical entity is the something then we must logically assume that he/she/it had a beginning. Why should it be a god? Why does this god have to be eternal? Why not aliens? How do you know that everything that exists had an explanation of its existence? Why assume such a thing? Why don’t we just assume that we don’t fully understand the deepest origins of the universe yet - and not tie an obviously man-made entity to it? Your points are faulty – even if we assume that “everything that exists has an explanation” and that the universe requires some kind of explanation, (which is defiantly an assumption – not a law) why choose a ‘god’ to explain such a theory? It seems far less logical to me that there is some kind of metaphysical wizard in the sky who perhaps sent a son to die or maybe throws lightning bolts! Why would he even bother to create life and the universe in the first place? Did he just get bored one day? Was he created by an even bigger entity and destined to create us? Who knows? It’s all so ludicrous! An alien lifeform, or maybe some strange future version of ourselves could work just as well as an explanation. Edward Witten proposed in the complex mind-warping M-theory, (in a nutshell) that there is a multi-verse of universes and upon the collision of two such universes a ‘big bang’ might take place. There is so much we don’t understand about the nature of the universe that to be certain that some kind of a god made a big bang is just ignorance. . http://www.hawking.org.uk... This logical tie-in with god happens not because of true logical reasoning, but because that is the explanation you have culturally been taught. If you were an Aztec you might say the Earth Mother Coatlicue set the big bang in motion. Or if you were Hindu, you might say the Universe is simply on an infinite cycle of big bangs and big crunches – stemming from the Brahman. You just dismiss the new eternal universe theory, and so I suppose that did little to convince you of how limited our understanding of the universe is. It’s changing all the time! We don’t have a bulletproof origin theory! There are gaps! Yet you are convinced that god is the answer – and that is troubling. I don’t know why you claim your points were uncontested. I challenged them fairly clearly. A one sentence answer to my challenge to find proof outside of the gaps in science was hardly acceptable. “There are logical arguments for God's existence that merit rational belief. ” Yes, I know, you showed me them in the first round – If it is so rational, then why don’t I, or more importantly, why doesn’t a great mind like Stephen Hawking believe? As Hawking once joked “What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions? ” Why can’t we find real, honest proof for god – and I don’t mean some theoretical nonsense about cosmology; I mean literal scientific measurements? Why would he make it impossible to substantially detect him? Which god do you think it was? There are many different gods, after all. The noticeable lack of reason or logic is palpable. . http://www.space.com... And so, again how many times have we said:1. We don’t understand (x) so a supernatural being must have created/caused it. …and look at how many times we’ve said: 2. We used to think (x) was caused by logical, mathematical occurrences, but now we know it was caused by a supernatural being. Darwin destroyed the proof of god through the human species and I’m sure in time we’ll have a similar revelation that without a doubt proves that god didn’t create the universe. We aren’t that far off. So, as of right now, you are forced into ‘god of the gaps’ because that is all the little logic in the world that is left for the argument for god.