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Why is theism not a good answer for the cause of the universe?

I've considered myself an atheist for roughly 7 years now. Only now have I started to seriously question whether a god would make sense or not.   
   
The only point on the existence of god that I think has any grounding, is that something caused the universe. I don't automatically assume that this must be the Christian, Muslim, or Jewish god. For all I know the god died in the creation of the universe, or is indifferent to us, etc.   
   
Why does god not fit argument to the best explanation for the start of the universe?
gpt
Saying that god did something isn't a good explanation because it doesn't actually explain anything - it doesn't describe the mechanics of how it was done, it rarely suggests why, and it offers no value for predicting future events. A universe with an intervening deity is one where anything can happen at any time for no reason, because god (in his inscrutable wisdom) willed it so. That isn't a universe where events are amenable to explanation, so invoking the supernatural seems somewhat self-defeating.

Further to that, why *should* we believe that such a being exists? God as normally described is, by any gauge, an impossible creature; an entity that has no precedent, nothing we know of that suggests it falls within the realms of the plausible. For all that the word is short and the concept commonplace, to say "God did this" is an enormously complex (and therefore improbable) answer, and there simply isn't the evidence to support the idea so long as there remains any tenuously possible natural answer.