Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
Ok then.

The world is a web of inter-relation between causes and effects. Since we believe our everyday sense of casuality holds (don't we?) then there must have been a First Cause to start the chain of events in motion.

Are you all with me so far?

Surprise, the First Cause is God.

Dispute at will.
The first cause is the first cause, that's all we know. "God" fits nicely as the first cause, but I can potentially conceptualize any being, event, or natural phenomenon as being the first cause. Not to mention the problem of what the first cause of god is, and if he was always there, then so could be the universe. I hold to the Buddhist philosophy (and part of quantum mechanics) that what we consider reality and non reality, are not actaully separate things. Essentially, all matter and energy is only force fields, all forcefields and non-forcefields are parts of space-time. Even gravity is merely a bend in spacetime caused the existence of "matter", which is an area of bent space-time that bends the rest of it around the matter to a lesser degree.