Resolved: The Cosmological Argument Fails to Prove God

Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. (Therefore) the universe had a cause. That cause is God For clarification, universe = our universe and Universe = multiverse (everything)____________________________________________________________________________________ I'd like to thank my opponent for accepting. He's playing "devil's advocate" in this debate, so it will be interesting to see what sort of arguments an atheist will come up with to defend a theistic argument.My Argument: P1: An infinite amount of time and energy guarantees all possible outcomes will occur an infinite amount of times. P2: Our Universe is composed of an infinite amount of time and energy. C: Therefore, by the laws of probability, our universe was guaranteed to come into existence by mere chance. P1 Justification: With enough time, everything that is not completely impossible becomes guaranteed to happen an infinite amount of times. Even if the occurrence of an event only has a <0.0001% chance of happening, so long as it isn't 0% and so long we never stop the clock, it MUST happen an infinite amount of times. Take the room you are in right now, for example. Let us say that the odds of all the atoms needed to form your room coming together and doing just that is as such that it will only likely happen once every billion years. Since we have an infinite amount of “billions of years”, we will also have an infinite amount of occurrences of this room forming spontaneously. In the same way, if there is some sort of "is-ness" above our universe compossed of an infinite amount of time and energy, then our universe was a statistical certainty and didn't requre intentional orchestration. P2 Justification: Super-string theory posits the existence of higher spatial dimensions, with some theories arguing as high as 26 additional spatial dimension [1]. Consider the implications of this; a 3-dimensional reality is made up of an infinite amount of 2-dimensional planes placed adjacent to one another. Likewise, a 4-dimensional reality is comprised of an infinite amount of 3-dimensional branes (3-branes) placed adjacent to one another, so on and so forth in this fashion. It is therefore clear that there are an infinite amount of realities like and unlike our own, each with their own timeliness. In other words, we have an infinite amount of “stuff” (and therefore energy) and an infinite amount of time (which must be the case if we can have an infinite amount of universes like our own, each with their own time-line). C Justification: Since both premises are valid, the conclusion must be accepted. An infinite amount of time guaruntees everything that is not impossible will happen an infinite amount of times, and an infinite amount of energy means all things are possible, therefore, our universe was statistically certain to come into existence organically. I'd like to point out to the voters that this is the actual conclusion the CA points to. The original CA stops at point 3, and if we stop the argument at point 3 what we have is a logical argument proving that the universe had a cause, but there's no argument for that cause being self-aware or that the cause created the universe intentionally. The only thing that needs to be assumed given the CA's conclusion is that there must be something outside our universe which possesses an infinite amount of time and energy, because these are the only qualities necessary to guarantee the emergence of our universe. The rest of the qualities attributed to to God (e.g. sentience) are unwarranted. Conclusion So long as there exists an infinite amount of time and energy in our Universe, we must conclude that our universe was guaranteed to exist, not just as-is, but in every possible combination an infinite amount of times. Modern theoretical physics points to such a conclusion and the CA stops at this conclusion. Since God is not necessary for our universe to have begun, we must conclude that the CA fails to present a compelling argument for his existence. The resolution is affirmed. VOTE PRO Sources 1. http://en.wikipedia.org...