Resolved: The existence of God can be proven indirectly.

Alright, let me cover each argument in turn. I. The beginning of this argument is logical, to assume that the Universe simply created itself is fallacious. Everything that we have experienced has a cause and thereby an effect, this is logical. It is at the point where you state that a supernatural being must have created the universe that your point steps outside of the realm of logic on two levels. a. The supernatural being commonly referred to as god cannot be explained by human beings, it lacks the ability to be understood. In essence the idea of a god is not an explanation at all, it is a place holder for our lack of an explanation. All throughout time humans have been baffled by many things, they have attributed these things to supernatural beings or occurrences that defy the laws of this world. The creation of the universe is one of these mysteries which I speak of, in fact the largest yet. We have to date not been able to explain how the universe was created, so much like man once thought that stars were made when great mean die, we think that the universe must also have been created by the supernatural. We think this because we have not yet found an explanation, this does not mean there is not an explanation and this most certainly does not mean that the supernatural is an explanation. b. And of course, the idea of a god lacks the own premise which it was originally trying to defeat. Logically everything was created by something else, thereby god must have been created by something else..... what? Secondly, god gives purpose to the lives of people, something people like. What many people don't realize is that god still has no purpose, making our own existence meaningless yet. II. Paraphrased, this contention states that something of a great force must have created the universe due to it's inability to exist and at the same time potentially exist. This isn't a bad observation, up until the point when we jump from this premise straight to the idea that what created the universe MUST be supernatural. In now way does it have to be supernatural at all. In fact let's take a look at a movie we all know, it's called the matrix. A perfectly reasonable explanation for the existence of that world exists, it's just hidden from the people. The matrix is an example of the brains in vats scenario. In other words scientists could be performing experiments on us as we speak; yet we are hooking into a virtual reality and never know. Another scenario, it's possible that we are all just a creation of some being and that being has hid the rather logical and very simple explanation of our existence from ourselves. In other words we could be much like computers that are programmed not to understand a certain string of data. The possibilities as to how we came to be are endless, and all equally probable under our current lack of evidence. It is therefor faulty to jump to the least logical solution, the solution that has no logic. III. Paraphrased, because we can think of god therefor it exists. God is an original idea and we cannot think of truly original ideas without them existing. Gods are not original ideas at all. Let's take a look at some past gods: http://images.google.com... http://www.futureofthebook.org... http://landru.i-link-2.net... http://danielfuentes.iespana.es... hmmmm....... something is strangely similar about all of these pictures, oh.... they are all images on men. Yeah, the gods are created in the image of man with heightened power. I'm awfully sure that the image of man is not an original idea, and I'm almost positive that power is not an original idea. Though in the gods' defenses we do have one other factor. The unexplainable factor, so here are the factors of the gods: The image of man: The gods' are just like men, in fact most people even imagine they think the same way and behave the same way. A fountain of power: More power than anybody could possibly know what to do with. In fact, even supernatural powers that will get the jobs of ordinary beings done in no time. Inexplainability: Beyond the comprehension of man, something that we can't even imagine. (In other words this really isn't a factor at all, it is the complete absence of one.) My point? The idea of god's could not be less original. It has been said that man always hungers for more power. If man always hungers for more powerful then he is always imagining himself (or herself) in his/her own image with more power. The greatest extent of which would be ultimate power or a god. God? Original? Nay, mundane if anything. Even I at a very young age imagined myself having super powers. The fact that we can make up things that don't exist in our minds doesn't make them true.