Last week we stepped out onto the back porch with the Bible skeptic Michael, and we looked up at the moon and the stars and the planets. From this common ground we asked ourselves this question; “Did the universe have a beginning, or has it always been here?” The answer of course, is the first step of a far-reaching journey attempting to answer the question; “Is God dead?” After asking this initial question last week, we summarized our thoughts by making the following claim: 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause 2. The universe began to exist 3. Therefore, the universe had a cause We then concluded that the first claim is straightforward, and almost no one disagrees with it; everything that begins to exist does have a cause. But for the second claim; “The universe began to exist,” we said, sets at the heart of the argument because how a person answers this claim points either to a creator, or it points away from one. For these reasons, there is much to be said about the second claim here this week.