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• A necessary being can only give rise to a contingent universe  +
• An immaterial point is an abstraction, and an abstraction cannot cause anything.  +
• Because the universe is contingent, it has a cause  +
• Causality is not linked to temporal succession  +
• Consciousness cannot be explained by matter  +
• God exists because there cannot be an infinite number of causes  +
• God explains the highly improbable adjustment of the universe's fundamental constants  +
• God is the first cause of the universe  +
• If the universe has no cause, then it is not necessary for it to exist.  +
• Not "everything" but "every effect" has a cause  +
• Science cannot explain the existence of physical phenomena and laws  +
• The argument that God does not exist because there is no first instant of time commits the same error as Zeno's paradox.  +
• The beginning is not the origin  +
• The connection between the kalam argument and Zeno's paradox doesn't hold water.  +
• The exception to the principle of sufficient reason deserves justification  +
• The fact that we can't explain God doesn't mean he doesn't exist.  +
• The fallacy of composition is not a fallacy  +
• The first cause cannot be an abstraction  +
• The first cause has consciousness  +
• The first cause may be of a non-physical nature  +
• The idea of creation out of nothing is absurd  +
• The idea of time without beginning is inconceivable because it is contradictory.  +
• The idea of time without beginning leads us to abandon the notion of time.  +
• The need for something to exist presupposes the existence of God  +
• The reasoning that a necessary being can only give rise to a necessary universe confuses logical implication with causal link.  +
• The universe began to exist with the Big Bang  +
• Those who speak of creating from nothing are playing with words  +
• Without a first cause, the series of causes cannot be explained.  +