[conservative_crusader]

"1. Creation of the universe requires that matter pre-exist "

Not necessarily. I personally believe in an omnipotent creator. He didn't need matter to exist before the universe was created. However, that does capture the gist of the argument.


On #3
I don't think actioner is a word. But in the scope of this argument, an action requires a cause.

On #4
for the sake of accuracy the cause of the action must be a god.

[shubi]

"If sound science appears to contradict the Bible, we may be sure that it is our interpretation of the Bible that is at fault." Christian Observer, 1832, pg. 437

"Christians should look on evolution simply as the method by which God works." Rev. James McCosh, theologian and President of Princeton, 1890