Exactly, only two avenues are explored: either God exists, or nothing exists. No other avenue of possibility is explored. Again, the author makes his conclusion and finds evidence to support it, instead of the other way around as he should.

Never argued whether or not the universe "began". Disagreement is with the rationale used to argue God created the universe. His argument: 1. The universe came to be 2. Therefore God (the supernatural) created it No reasoning or argument given, only the immediate leap to assume God created the universe. Not a valid argument.

First you make the assumption that the universe has a definite begining, which may or may not be true. Then, however, you make an immediate leap to assume that the only possible beginning of the universe was its creation by a supernatural being. No rationale is given for why only God, nothing else, could have possibly created the universe. Your argument concludes that there is a God and seeks evidence to support it, rather than the other way around.

5 for NEDM