Good point you make there Paul. I guess some who are more skeptical would say it dodges the question, and most atheists would argue that it moves in the opposite direction. In other words, instead of presupposing a really complex being like God to start with, imagine something incredibly simple and small that simply is, and that slowly evolves to the universe as we now have it. Either way, both sides of the argument face the same mystery, we exist – and the reality of our existence confronts us with the question, is this a result of random chance, or is our existence the result of the intentional action of a supreme being, God. So do we have this really complex world because something really simply evolved into something far more complex, or was there a really complex pre existent being able to create at a high level of sophistication.

I come out on your side of the argument – and am glad that I do, because the implications are enormous. Without an act of intentional creation, life is a result of essentially random chance, and if we are simply creatures of chance, the quest for meaning and purpose works from a false assumption that meaning and purpose can be found. True, we can chose to confer them upon life, but we do so in spite of (if this is an accidental universe) the arbitrariness of life.

But I am running ahead of some future posts. Thanks for your thoughts.

God is uncaused and uncreated — He simply exists.

How do I know this? I know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.