(March 17, 2012 at 5:20 pm)Eyem4Christ Wrote: Theists who understand even a little about cosmology are forced to believe in God, because that is the only non-magical explanation. A Divine Designer who existed prior to the universe is simply more plausible than the alternative.
You say theists who understand some cosmology are forced to believe in god - if they are theists, they already believe in god. The cosmology they know so little about isn't what forces them to believe in god, their indoctrinating culture is.
Yet somehow your all-powerful god is not magic? If god created the universe, why are so many things wrong with it?
A created universe is a logical impossibility. If god created the universe, who created god? You say the Big Bang theory is full of shit because science has not yet explained why the universe came into existence, yet you readily accept that some god created it, and this god was always there? Your own argument bites you in the arse.