This is an improper understanding of primary and secondary causation. You can't give what you don't have, lesser being cannot beget higher being, it's simply impossible, if you study Aristotle you'd understand that.
Secondly, you didn't even address causation, being, motion or anything else.
Why is there something rather than nothing? What is being? What is essence? What is substance? What is good? What is truth? These are all immaterial universals an atheist struggles to define and answer. They can't be explained away by mere hand-waiving because "Christians r dumb".
Even Aristotle was a pagan and came to the belief in God through natural reason, though didn't have divine revelation to perfect it, he came very close.
Atheism is a fool's errand.
You should read The Last Superstition by Edward Feser.
"Communism begins where Atheism begins" -Karl Marx
To me, atheists are typically that way because they don't want to give up some sin (sexual) or be held accountable for their actions at their final judgment. I can't make you believe in God, but God can be known through natural reason alone, that much is clear, God is not some fairy tale.
You can't give what you don't have, lesser being cannot beget higher being, it's simply impossible
I have yet to hear a convincing rebuttal of Evolution by natural selection. Life exists as anti-gravity anti-entropy miracle of an emergent order. If god did create life, she seeded it and let the laws of her creation do the rest. There is no evidence of hand-created life. We don't know how proteins formed without RNA, and we don't know how proteins created RNA, but we know that RNA created DNA.
I'm not an atheist, I just don't believe in a Christian god. Atheism is indeed a fool's errand. It implies there is no metaphysics, yet worships at the altar of mathematics. It's irrational.
I accept Spinoza's god maybe, perhaps the Dao, perhaps a magenta ball of string.
None of Aristotle nor Aquinas implies a god who intervenes in human life. God does not answer prayers. Two teams have never won the Super Bowl in the same year, yet both QBs pray. How does god arbitrate contradicting prayers. Does god have a nose? Why does he love the smell of beef? Maybe it's a metaphor to describe the nutrient density to meat which is preferable to grains. Perhaps the whole book is a primitive metaphor to describe difficult to explain concepts like liberty, hygiene, and justice. Our legal system is fundamentally a religious system based on fictions like free will and authority. It's not just Theists who are irrational, nobody understands what they're doing.
The Epicureans were right, if there is a god it is irrelevant. I know for a fact Abraham's god doesn't exist. Goodbye Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Mormonism, Islam, and Judaism.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
I don't know. We accept existence a priori. Can you prove we exist? Perhaps we're an illusion. Reality is a hallucination we assume corresponds to a shared external world.
What is being?
Being is existence, comprised of shape and location over time (motion)
What is essence?
Essence is a concept, a pattern of being or existence of an object or set of objects
What is substance?
Atomic matter connected by an intangible substrate which unites the universe as a single object
What is good?
Existence is good. Growth is good. Cooperation is good.
What is truth?
Linguistic Correspondence with essence of shared experience Map=Territory.
This isn't a useful proof to convince you because I don't see you changing your mind, but there are other ways to think that aren't trapped in dogma and not nihilism.
I disagree entirely with your definitions, they're all based on materialism.
I would exhort you to keep an open mind and read St. Thomas on Being and Essence: https://isidore.co/aquinas/ De Ente et Essentia and other works there.
The universe could be made of intangible puppet strings for all we know, but for it to exist, it must have a shape and location.
My mind is open. I'm here, aren't I? It isn't that I haven't read Aquinas, it's that Aquinas birthed a revolution in thought that even God is subservient to reason.
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