A few questions

[bennyboy]

Why is the universe the way it is? Brilliant and beautiful?

It isn't. It's mostly dark, and beauty is your subjective opinion about it.

Why does it have to be in order? Why can't it be chaotic?

It is very chaotic, though there is also some order. Don't believe it's chaotic? Try predicting the weather. But your questions are broken, since you are asking about things without first establishing that they are as you say they are.

Why can't the speed of light change? Why is gravity between two bodies proportional to product of the masses? Why not anything else? (Note inversely proportional equation doesn't count). Why can't the laws of thermodynamics be changed? Why are laws the way they are?

Except for what you've said about light, the rest are pretty decent philosophical questions. I'm assuming you'll say, "We don't know therefore God," which would be a bad answer to good questions.

In short, why does the universe need to conform to the laws? Doesn't the fact that the laws can't be changed or substituted indicate there could be a higher power that set it all in place?

Why does yellow need to be yellow? It's just yellow. Google "brute fact."


I think you're making a mistake here, Vivalarevolution, in asking questions you think atheists aren't equipped to answer well. This is a mistake that is likely to bring you embarrassment or frustration, sooner rather than later. You should assume that everyone here, for example, has viewed and analyzed the debates of William Lane Craig. Not only do we know already know the arguments you're using, we know the terms for them. I recommend you google the terms "God of the gaps argument" and "fine tuning argument," since those are the arguments you are leading with-- and then search these forums for a preview of the vigorous responses with which you are about to get buried. You should also add "Kalam cosmological argument" to your list of searches.