Atheist fanatic and naturalist homophobe Eric Wadenius has made an attempt to prove that God doesn’t exist:

1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause
2. The Universe began to exist
3. The Universe is defined as “all that exists”
Therefore:
4. All that exists must also have a cause
5. God is defined as something that does not have a cause
Therefore:
6. God does not exist

Well, if the Universe has to be caused by something and that something doesn’t exist, doesn’t the rationale point to the conclusion that we don’t exist?

Assume that I create a time-limited computer program able to write new code. After only a generation, every code that exists within the program is caused by evolution. After a few generations, everything that exists is caused by a self-evolved program with no resemblance to my original code. Does this, by itself, prove that I don’t exist? I say no. All it proves is that I’m no longer needed for the program to exist.

Update: In an update, Wadenius stresses that he only meant to disprove the kalām cosmological argument for the existence of God, and he says he defines the Universe as “everything that ever existed”. I now notice that he did write that, but as I have been taught that the Universe by this definition only refers to matter, I assumed he meant all matter that has ever existed.