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Nah, there have always been atheists even if they weren’t as loud or annoying as they are now. Cicero rejected the gods of his time for example, as did many of his contemporaries.
I didn't know that about Cicero.
Cicero believed in nature, therefore believed in God. The engines that power our cars and planes that fly are built according to the laws of nature, God's laws. If you don't follow God's laws your plane will crash.
That’s the “god of the gaps.” The laws of nature exist, we don’t know why the laws of nature exist, therefore god must have made the laws of nature exist. It’s fallacy.
No dude. The laws of nature are God's laws since they are one in the same. God didn't make them, that implies God is bound by cause and effect. Your entire argument is nothing but strawman fallacies.
The existence of law implies a Lawgiver. Without a strict set of operating principles, the universe would simply not exist.
Purely random events also do not create matter. All that exists in the universe sprang from something: the tree from a seed, the chicken from the egg, you from your parents. Therefore it logically follows that the universe itself must have a cause which is not dependent on a previously existing thing. That uncaused cause must also exist outside of the physical universe and outside of time, or else it would be subject to both the physical and temporal universe. This uncaused cause is what all men call God.
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