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• God is the cause of the existence of beings  + (587)
• Primordial energy is the stuff of which all beings are made; it exists on its own and does not need God to exist.  + (588)
• Atheism posits a primordial energy whose origin it can never explain.  + (589)
• Everything has a cause, and God in particular  + (590)
• Not "everything" but "every effect" has a cause  + (591)
• God is timeless, therefore causeless  + (592)
• Denying that God has a cause is an arbitrary assumption  + (593)
• In essence, existence implies temporality  + (594)
• The world had a beginning and therefore has a first cause.  + (595)
• The first cause is unknowable  + (596)
• Atheists claim that the universe before the Planck Wall is impossible to describe, not that it came out of "nothing".  + (597)
• The idea of a first cause neither proves nor disproves the existence of God  + (598)
• Everything that exists has a reason to exist  + (599)
• The fact that everything has a reason to exist doesn't prove that God is that same reason.  + (600)
• The principle of causality does not apply to the universe  + (601)
• The fallacy of composition is not a fallacy  + (602)
• We must follow the truth of our senses  + (603)
• Without a first cause, the series of causes cannot be explained.  + (604)
• The universe was created from nothing  + (605)
• Those who speak of creating from nothing are playing with words  + (606)
• The idea of creation out of nothing is absurd  + (607)
• The universe is contingent  + (608)
• If the universe has no cause, then it is not necessary for it to exist.  + (609)
• The need for something to exist presupposes the existence of God  + (610)
• The reasoning that a necessary being can only give rise to a necessary universe confuses logical implication with causal link.  + (611)

• A necessary being can only give rise to a contingent universe  + (612)

• The first cause is the Big Bang  + (613)
• The Big Bang has a cause  + (614)
• The first cause is an immaterial point  + (615)
• An immaterial point is an abstraction, and an abstraction cannot cause anything.  + (616)
• There's no reason why God should be the first cause.  + (617)
• The first cause is a necessary being  + (618)
• The first cause cannot be material  + (619)
• The first cause cannot be an abstraction  + (620)
• The first cause has consciousness  + (621)
• The First Cause is the Hindu Brahman, self-conscious and indifferent to humans.  + (622)
• God is a filler concept  + (623)
• To say that God is a filler concept is an unfalsifiable argument.  + (624)
• Science has never claimed to be able to explain everything in the future.  + (625)
• We must accept the mystery  + (626)
• To claim that there is either a divine hypothesis or a known scientific explanation is to commit a false dilemma.  + (627)
• God gives an account of the world's master plan  + (628)
• The world is not orderly but chaotic  + (629)
• The shared experience of reality is stable  + (630)
• If the world were chaotic, there would be no language to talk about it.  + (631)
• Scientific predictions show that the world conforms to laws  + (632)
• The notion of order is a projection of the human mind  + (633)
• The perceived order is real  + (634)
• The illusion of order is the product of our cognitive biases  + (635)
• If order were a projection of the human mind, scientific prediction would be impossible.  + (636)
• Science explains the order and complexity of the world  + (637)