It’s important to remember that it’s one thing to be able to explain the operation of something, but it’s quite another to talk about its origin. All causes are known by their effects. Obviously, one of God’s more spectacular effects is the creation of the visible universe and God ordering that universe so it supports living creatures. If you try to do away with God as the creator of the universe then you are forced to conclude that the universe is somehow self-existent. That changes the universe from being an effect of an omnipotent Creator to being a self-existent cause. But if the universe is the cause of everything then what is the universe’s effect? There is no satisfactory answer to that question.

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