Hello Colin,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

You said:

“The world around us is only evidence that the world around us exists. It says nothing about existence of gods. I stopped reading at this point, as the very first "argument" was a non-sequitur.”

The world around us is indeed evidence that the world around us exist.

But that fact raises a question: where did the world come from?

If you see a baby, that baby‘s presence is evidence that the baby exists.

But that fact raises a question: where did the baby come from?

You don’t have to see its parents to know that its parents exist. The existence of the baby is proof that its parents exist, along with its grandparents, great grandparents, and so on.

In the same way, the existence of our world is proof that its creator exists.

Our world is not infinite. It is finite. It is limited in every way. It did not exist forever. It is contingent in all of its parts.

All of that logically requires that something infinite created the finite. Something had to exist before the finite, such that it could cause the finite to beginning existing.