I don’t mean to dodge your first question, but it may seem like I am because I’m about to respond to your question with a question: What, from the perspective of a believer, constitutes extra-natural evidence? (“Super-natural” seems tired; “extra-natural” — my coinage — does a better or at least a fresher job of underscoring the point.) If I had some idea of what this means, I might be able to notice a extra-natural moment or event happening in my life. I got up this morning, had my oatmeal, read the newspaper, and then went to the gym. I wasn’t aware of any extra-natural thing happening in my life. Where do I go or what do I do to experience this alleged extra-natural realm or dimension? No, I’m not being snarky.
I have considered the Kalam argument and have rejected it. Any “first cause” argument makes no sense. A handy syllogism: All existence has a creator (so say believers), God is that creator — but God does not have a creator. As you can see, the proposition fails because it violates its own premise. Funny stuff. (I would love to debate William Lane Craig. I would wipe the floor with him.)
As for God and morality, an understanding of evolution shows that this idea that morality was somehow injected or squirted into us by a Celestial Being (“God”) is simply not the case. You might think “injected” or “squirted” are on the crude side of the linguistic ledger, but I only use these brute terms to underscore my contention, which is that our sense of morality can easily be explained by evolution. There is simply no evidence to show that our sense of altruism, for example, was given to us by an Outside Source.
Hell. Once again, if God is the Creator of Everything in the Universe, and Hell is part of that Creation, I fail to see how God is not a psychopath (I’m sticking with “Love me or I’ll set you on fire” as the central threat of Christianity). It’s crazy (and obscene) to believe that some kind of eternal torturous state awaits certain individuals after death. But, hey, in my view, this is all fiction. Talking about the threat of Satan is like talking about the threat of Sauron. It’s all just literary-oriented fun — until people start taking this stuff seriously. By the way, God — well, the Abrahamic God, at least — is not “good and just.” Check out the Old Testament to see how God comes off as a tyrannical despot.
Free will is an illusion. I won’t go into this here because it’s a huge subject for another time. Christian List, a proponent of free will, discusses the subject here, and then Jerry Coyne takes him to the woodshed (and if you search Coyne’s website you’ll see many other entries on free will). There’s also this essay.
