Debate: God Exists

[pocaracas]

Oh, wow... hello new guy!
I admit I didn't read the whole thing... I stopped... here:

4. What proof have we of the existence of God?
"The axiom which you apply in all your scientific researches, 'There is no effect without a cause.' Search out the cause of whatever is not the work of man, and reason will furnish the answer to your question."

To assure ourselves of the existence of God, we have only to look abroad on the works of creation. The universe exists, therefore it has a cause. To doubt the existence of God is to doubt that every effect has a cause, and to assume that something can have been made by nothing.

So much said... so much implied... so much unknown... so much assumed to be known...
What is nothing?
Can there be nothing? Can there ever have been nothing? (if this question makes sense at all)

If a god exists in the absence of anything else, whence cometh he?

Now, just to start messing with the known unknowns:
- Does nothing contain space-time?
- Does nothing contain time?
- Does it make sense to speak of a state of affairs in which time does not exist?
- Does it make sense to speak of an action - creation - in the absence of time?
- Is space-time infinite?
- Is our Universe a small distorted fraction of an infinite space-time?
- Could such an infinite space-time produce, on some rare occasions, such a Universe creating distortion?
- Could infinity mean that those rare occasions are also infinite? Are there infinite Universes?

And don't get me started on unknown unknowns!

Anyway.... maybe something a bit more down to Earth...
- Does nothing pertain to matter alone?
- Is the vacuum of space nothing?
- What if light is flowing through that space? Is it still nothing?
- What if a magnetic field is present therein?
- What about an electric field?
- Or a gravitational field?
- What is nothing?