I wouldn't place too much worth in that site -- the first paragraph sets up a convenient strawman argument right off the bat
with his little coin thought experiment.
(1) Next he addresses
Galileo and Empirical Science.
What the author, Mark Thomas, fails to realise is that Galileo was a Christian! as were many of the great scientific minds of the past like Newton
Though this irony often escapes those like Mark who would attempt to rewrite (or forget) history to suit their current world views.
He attempts to equate the Roman Catholic Church with religion as a whole, which is false. Which leads into:
(2)
God of the Gaps, or Argument From Ignorance and here he errects yet another strawman:
Until just a couple of hundred years ago, most people thought that a god or gods controlled everything. Why did the wind blow? Why was there lightning and thunder? Why did the sun, moon, and stars apparently go around Earth? Why did someone get sick and die? Why did anything happen? Well, obviously, God did it. If a person doesn’t know how something works or why something happened, they can say, “God did it.” This is known as the “god of the gaps,” or the “argument from ignorance,” and it is at the heart of the conflict between science and religion.
God gave us
free will to act and do as we please, if we so choose. He created the universe and the laws that govern it independently of Himself. We (humans) exist within an self-governing reality. We attempt to understand the wonders that God created -- THAT is what Galileo and his contemporaries attempted to explain. The earth for instance revolves around the sun because of gravitational forces.
(3) Next he addresses
Why God(s)? Why Not?
It's a fair question, and perhaps one that is best answered from a spiritual viewpoint -- our relationship with God that we experience everyday.
Of course if we look to historical evidence we know that Jesus existed as flesh and blood (even the majority of atheists admit as much) and he died, and there were 12 witnesses attesting to His resurrection.
Take a look at the the Bible's
historical accuracy -- the incredibly detailed records of mankind's lineage.
(4) Next he asks
What Tools Can We Use?
Well scientific laws of course! The first law of thermodynamics states that the total energy of the universe is constant and cannot be created or destroyed -- well that conflicts with a chance universe.
(5) Next he tries to knock down
Revelation and Experience through nothing more than assumptions and incredulity. To the people that experience God in their lives everyday He is very much tangible.
(6)
The God of the Gaps is an old, tired and just plain false accusation. Mark proves this in his very own article by referencing Galileo
Intelligent Design is ANYTHING BUT a God of the Gaps argument, you only need to reference any of the literature out there at the moment like The Myth of Junk DNA -- in fact it was THE ATHEISTS WHO told us not to waste time searching for function within non-protein-coding DNA. Whereas the design proponents predicted design according on telelogcial bases!
(7)
The First Cause is a valid argument. Only nothing can from nothing. No matter how complex or what circular logic you attempt to use to confuse the matter the fact remains that there has to be a first cause. And an outside (nature) supernatural force is the best possible explanation.
(8)
The Big Bang doesn't conflict with God. However it does conflict with the First Law of Thermodynamics -- where did all that energy come from - which the author fails to address. And while atheists attempt to solve this using the multiverse theory, it NEVERTHELESS results in an infinite regression of those universes back to the first universe.
I know my points have been short and limited, but I don't have the time to go through them all -- in fact you will find all the answers you seek in the resources located on this very website
He lists a series old tired arguments that have long since been refuted.