Theists, of course, swear by the first hypothesis. Their rationale is that wherever there is a creation—paper, pen, table, chair, etc.—it ought to have a creator. In the case of the universe, they say the creator is god. Those who proffer this argument forget that we can turn it back on them. The creator has to be a creation too, so who created them? Our opponents respond that the creator is self-born and self-extant. Which means that god is bound by causality. So, they have to conclude that the universe is self-governed by causality.
