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>Look up "special pleading",i admittedly, am too lazy to explain the entirety of it here
It's not special pleading, it's precisely what I posit that God is. There's a reason for this "special treatment," i.e. that He is above the laws of causality that govern this universe, as He is its creator and the creator of all laws that give it order. Everything else in this world has a cause, I don't see how there could exist a set of eternal laws (which are metaphysical) or how this could even be scientifically demonstrated. Why do these laws exist? I understand that you believe in the multiverse fairy tale, but that still leaves concrete laws that govern this entire macrocosm of multiverses, thus removing your God of the Probabilities-tier argument.

>But Cosmic Inflation needs no uncaused cause since the Universe has always existed, all the laws have always existed in an infinite causeless past in of itself
Can you prove that the laws/Universe have always existed? Has time always existed? How can we have an infinite past? It seems more like you are specially pleading, saying that the fundamental laws of this world need no cause de

>Infinite Multiverse theory, probability results in laws that support life eventually
Can you provide proof of an alternate universe? Is there an alternate universe where an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God exists?

And I am not referring to life, stop giving me hackneyed atheist responses. I am talking about the laws; there are still overarching laws that tell us that "there are infinite multiverses, each one with some minor difference, each one separated by some means." Why does this law exist? Why do multiverses exist? Or do they exist only to fill in some gap or answer an uncomfortable question posed to scientists?

>God is less conductive to concerning ourselves with what we have, our mortal known existence.
Knowledge of God subsumes everything under itself; it is of immediate use, and one need not negate one's mortal existence while believing in a God. A scientist can be a man of God, as well. There is no need to desperately push aside God as if we don't have ample time on earth to think both of God and of secular things.

Those things you "know" about your mortal "known" existence are not even really known. There are questions no one can answer, such as those raised by solipsists.