Objection to Premise 1: "Who made God?" (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion). Response: the premise says whatever BEGINS to exist needs a cause, not whatever EXISTS needs a cause.

Richard Dawkins' objection from The God Delusion. Atheist philosopher Michael Ruse said the book made him embarrassed to be an atheist. Braxton notes that expertise in biology doesn't qualify someone to speak on philosophy. The key distinction: the premise applies only to things that begin to exist, not to a timeless being.