The Problem with Christians

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The universe is eternal. Therefor it is not necessary that it had a creator.

That's one hypothesis, anyway. And one that's being taken seriously by scientists. One that is never excluded by naively applying rules about the contents of reality to reality itself. It's called a fallacy of composition. It's an extremely unreliable extrapolation.

Learn more about this fallacy here.

"God" as an explanation is just kicking the can down the road a little bit.

Saying that causation must apply to reality, but then needn't apply to God, is special pleading. It's trying to define into existence a solution to a paradox of your own imagining. "Reality just is" is consistent, and not paradoxical. The demands that reality itself lives by laws of causation is a projection based on our everyday experiences. I'm not saying I believe that is the case, that reality is somehow eternal, but neither can I exclude it as a sensible possibility.