The Magic of Atheism?

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In terms of the philosophy behind these arguments they are basically the First Cause argument and the teleological argument or argument from design.

Simple logic disproves the first one. You state the universe must have a cause because it cannot come from nothing (which is not what modern physics neccessarily states but I'll play along) and therefore there must exist an uncaused cause which created the universe. You then call this thing that caused the universe "god". Surely God would be more complex than the universe and demands a cause himself. What caused god to come into existence? Then what caused god's cause? So on and so forth. We end up with an infinite regress.

The "laws" of physics are more just descriptions of the way that matter behaves. Quantum physics demonstrates how those once deemed immutable laws don't apply on a sub-atomic level. We simply refer to them as "laws" because it makes more sense to our human brains. The "laws" of physics most likely came into existence with the universe and there could foreseeably exist other universes in which the "laws" of physics do not behave in the way that we understand them to. None of it implies intelligence.