How do you rationalize your point of view?

Please, let me clarify the 1st Law of Thermodynamics.

Matter-energy cannot create MORE matter-energy.

This law is simply stating that more matter-energy cannot be created from what there is.

(There are no perpetual motion machines [or physical processes].)

We also know that _all_ matter-energy is not eternally useful from the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

Therefore the matter-energy that does exist did begin to exist.

And everything that begins to exist has a cause.

(Every effect has a cause).

All of these points are well established in physics, not rationalized.

Many people turn the observed understanding that matter-energy cannot create more matter-energy into the idea that matter-energy was never created at all.

So you're saying you rationalize your point of view with an intentional logical fallacy?

I don't "rationalize" my point of view.

My point of view is simply, "as far as we can tell, everything happens through natural causes. No supernatural explanations are warranted.

If there is a point that can't be explained that way, we haven't reached it yet. If we do, I will acknowledge a lack of knowledge, rather than inventing something as an explanation that has no support."

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To clarify the logical fallacy: You've done what's called "Special Pleading."

If energy can't be created or destroyed, then it can't be created or destroyed.

It exists now, and couldn't have ever been created - so there can't have been a time when it didn't.

I don't.