Causality can be interpreted as a series of gears. > > One thing is caused by the other.
If you say so. But that would include god, in that case.
Verses?
The honest answer: we don't know. Probably not god, certainly not the christian god.
If the sun disappeared, you would die, thus you depend on the sun.
This is extremely reductive and unimaginative. What if we find a way to replace the light, warmth, vitamins etc we get from the sun? Heck, maybe we could even make a version that doesn't give us cancer, one-upping your fictional god.
If all the arachnids and the sort died, the ecosystem would be rattled and we'd all die. We depend on other things to live. That is my evidence for this claim, as we can observe.
This says nothing about the origins of the universe. It wasn't made for us, we evolved to survive.
And to deny God's existence is to claim that what requires all (the universe, it depends on a lot of factors to survive) requires nothing (Does not require God to exist).
No. Atheists are not making a claim. You are making a claim that god exists based on nothing but wishful thinking and a poor understanding of science. We deny that claim because there is no evidence to support it.
This is a logical contradiction.
All you have is god of the gaps and special pleading. You have failed to convince me or anyone else with integrity that your god exists.