Originally Posted by mo42

The "Why not believe in Flying Spaghetti Monster instead of God" argument is flawed- I wish people would stop using it. You can make arguments like "what was the cause of the Big Bang?" and answer "God", and there's also a historical perspective of people believing in God as opposed to FSM.

The idea that a being existing outside of Nature, and thereby being capable of causing the First Cause without needing a cause of its own is something worth consideration, in my opinion.

Given God created the Universe, I would have to say that God would necessarily have also created Evolution, or an elaborate hoax to make it appear to exist, due to the preponderance of evidence in favor of it.