Yes. I do! Why wouldn't anyone think the universe needed to be created with all the many laws and principles that govern it?"Something created the universe and laws it conforms to. If it isn't God I don't know what it could be and will keep referring to God until someone comes up with a more likely explanation (which will never happen)"
Oh. Well, if you say so.
Even if someone believed in something as speculative and theoretical as a cyclical universe there still is a need for a starting point somewhere and a creator.
I am incredulous at your powers of stubborn denial.
It's interesting that you accuse me of stubborn denial when you write "... until someone comes up with a more likely explanation (which will never happen)"
Tell me again who is in stubborn denial.
You still have not made a case for your creator gods so why is anyone else under an obligation to believe your creator gods created anything?
No need to wait. The gods came out of nothing, by magical means, because supernaturalism relieves the theist of any burden of proof. How cool is that?How many times should I repeat the axiomatic truth that nothing comes out of nothing? I know there is a God because of reason, logic, science and a life of empirical evidence.It's interesting that you accuse me of stubborn denial when you write "... until someone comes up with a more likely explanation (which will never happen)"
Tell me again who is in stubborn denial.
You still have not made a case for your creator gods so why is anyone else under an obligation to believe your creator gods created anything?
Let's try this. I know with certainty that the formidible Unionized collection of Hindu gods created the universe. You must believe that because....well, I just told you.
Nothing else accounts for all of "creation".
But maybe you know of something that just appears one day without a source, cause, action, maker, precedent or anything else. So I'll give you the chance here to name that thing.
Go ahead. Name it. I'm waiting.
I just see no reason to accept that particular exception. So where did your gods come from? I have no reason to accept that your gods get a pass from the very standard you insist must be applied to the material world. Aside from the insistence that supernaturalism and magic get a pass from any verifiable standard, I don’t believe in supernaturalism and magic.
As far as science can define, the universe as we know it did not come out of nothing, it started as a singularity. Therefore, the “started from nothing” claim regarding the universe doesn’t make sense.