How about instead of a universe, just creating somebody to be nice and loving to?

Definitionally, in such a case that somebody would be the universe. But that's again on the question of whether this universe provides evidence of a god, i.e. the second conditional, not the first.

I disagree. God has to be an entity existing outside of the universe otherwise he can't create it. If God is all-powerful and there is at least one entity known to be able to exist outside of the/a universe, then he must be able to create another one.

If God exists outside of time as he must to create the universe, then he can't create some of the universe now and some of it later, time is a property of the universe itself.

He could, if he leaves time until last.

Saying he leaves time until last doesn't mean anything where time doesn't exist.

I'll defer talk of my local sports team to Nutty, who can actually name all of the players (and their batting averages, country of origin, English fluency, arrest records, and emotional quirks) and how each of them would do locked in a squash cage with a cheetah.

Hey. Okay, actually, in most cases that's a fair cop. (On that last account, there's not a player in the majors who isn't bigger and heavier than me -- also most of them are more agile --, so if I can beat a cheetah, they all can.)

I watched that show House last night, you'll all be glad to know. I like Hugh Laurie better when he is talking Beebtalk, although he pulls off American pretty well. Possibly only a narrow set of values of "American" -- don't know whether he can do redneck, e.g. --, but he's pretty good.

It's hard to believe that the Red Socks broke the Royals winning streak.

It's hard to believe that the Red Sox broke the Royals winning streak.

I know, right? Shocker.

I am still working out what HGTV genius decided that baseball stadia need water features. It's so very Disney.

Fountains are a big deal in Kansas City, there are a lot of fountains. Thus, fountains in the baseball park.

If God is all-powerful and there is at least one entity known to be able to exist outside of the/a universe, then he must be able to create another one.

You don't need the middle bit, do you? Even if there isn't an entity outside the universe, he's not all powerful if he can't make one.

Saying he leaves time until last doesn't mean anything where time doesn't exist.

Why yes, which explains my cranial pain.

However, in order to parse the idea of the universe being created, we are applying time to the scenario, just to make it work. So there's cheating there already.

But, if God is all powerful, he should be able to do things that make my head hurt.

Any god that interests me is sufficiently uneffable that I never hope to get it, no matter how many axioms or prophets or holy books. Or they're one of the soap-operatic pantheon types.

No. "God created the universe" is not the same as "God crafted all events". It would be the case in a deterministic universe, but that begs the question.

I would say again this is assuming time outside the universe when time is a component of the universe. How can God start off the Universe and let events happen as they will if there is no concept of time outside the universe?

Hey! Is that a cat over there?

Is that a cat over there?

Nope. Flying spagetti monster. Still kinda cute, though, in a noodly way.