Ingenium, I disagree that, even when accept on faith, the God Hypothesis explains anything. It may end inquiry, but it does not increase understanding. I don’t say that because I believe the God Hypothesis to be false: rather, even if the God Hypothesis is correct, the questions that remain are at best isomorphic to the questions that preceded it.
Uccisore, I think that your first point is also answered by what I said in my response to Ingenium: I’m not arguing that you can’t propose it, but that whether or not you hold the God Hypothesis true, the questions that you cannot answer are at best isomorphic. I’m not criticizing anyone, I’m pointing out that the belief does not explain anything more than saying “I don’t know”. Which, I’m glad to note, you have argued against. to the meat!
You say that value is derived from god valuing things. In the abscence of god, value is derived from people who are not god valuing things. So, you have a parallel question for each system: How does a person’s valuing something instill that thing with value. Basically, why is god valuing something more relevant than you or I valuing it?
You say that god created the universe to be beautiful. Here, the question that remains is not as similarly phrased, but is still isomorphic to the question raised in a godless universe: ‘Why did god want the universe to be beautiful?’ The isomporphism is revealed if we dress a godless universe in theistic garb, and rephrase the initial question so: ‘Why did the universe want the universe to be beautiful?’ The question is just as valid, as it similarly attributes human emotion to something that is not human, in the word ‘want’.
You say that god explains why moral truths seem necessary. I assume you mean that god’s creation of the moral truths makes them necesary (please expand if I’m wrong). But at least one equally problematic question still remains: Why did god create the moral laws he created? And a further question one might ask is, if punishment and reward are the only reasons to do good, is there actually a necessary morality involved? I can choose to suffer pain, even eternal pain, to do something I deem right and god deems wrong.
More generally, I don’t see that a cosmic personality can explain anything. It puts all the individual questions (why do I have free will?) into a single, huge, and isomorphic question (why does god have free will?), but this transfer does not legitimately explain anything.
(By the by, can we not side-track this topic with a free-will debate? I think this is important water to tread, and I don’t want it to get lost in such a sea.)