Science and religion

[Esquilax]

The cosmological argument does not rest on the premise that "everything has a cause" which opens the door to what caused God. The idea is that "Everything that comes into being has a cause". That means that all contingent beings have a cause. Therefore, to ask "what caused God?" is really to ask "what caused the thing that cannot in principle have a cause?" Even if the universe has always existed, it nonetheless owes its existence to an unmoved mover, i.e. God. Even if there are an infinite series of contingencies, there must be an original, non-contingent force that is doing the moving, a force that has not been, and cannot be influenced by any other.

And then, of course, we come to the much, much more important question: what the fuck is the basis for claiming any of this?

Seems to me to be just a load of baseless assertions and special pleading to me.