Complexity? Really?

Let me focus on just these points of yours for the sake of expediency:

what objective evidence can you demonstrate for any deity? Or that any deity is even possible?

Answer: The presence of a rationally intelligible universe, very objective I’d say.

Oh really? I’d ask you to demonstrate some objective evidence for this assertion, but I’m still waiting for you to answer my previous question.

You wrote that in response to this that I wrote:

There cannot be a material explanation for the universe.

Material explanations are expressed in terms of things that already exist. Scientific explanations can only explain (predict) the future state of an existing system, they cannot explain the presence of a system from a prior state where there is no system.

The only way to explain the presence of the universe is in terms of something other than that universe.

One can certainly explain the state of the universe, its state here and there or at some past or future date, but one cannot explain its presence.

If you’re satisfied with a circular argument then that’s fine but I am not and I am not afraid to face the consequences of that line of reasoning.

Not to mention that these “laws” are also beliefs, nothing more.

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