Cause and effect is meaningless.
Your statement is meaningless.
If everything must have a cause, then what caused God? The counter-arguement to that is that God is an exceptional being that doesn't need a cause.
God is not a thing.
But if there can be something without a cause, why does the exceptional being have to be labeled God?
No need for a label. Just another method for identifying in our puny minds.
We can use the same argument to say that the Earth is an exceptional thing that, just like your conception of "God", also doesn't need a creator.
Earth is not God. Same argument doesn't fit.
There is no reason for us to believe that this universe had a beginning, and therefore was created by anything.
If there was no beginning to the universe, entropy would have reduced all complexity to an equal state of simplicity throughout the universe long ago.
There is evidence of things being created, sure, we have humans and some animals using tools to make artifacts. From this you jump to 'everything is created'? How, exactly?
Are you talking about the fact that the universe is a big machine filled with numerous smaller machines? Machines have makers. The intelligently made, ultra complex, machines of the universe have a Maker, as well. However, before something exists, there is nothing to make anything out of. This shows that at least the foundations of the universe were created.
Everything I see and experience hasn't been created, it has been altered, grown, rearranged, spun, settled, and transformed.
How do you know or prove that anything was ever created, as opposed to things simply changing shapes and forms eternally?
We have never found anything that does not have a cause. Nothing. Nada. Zip. We may not know what the cause is for some things, but even the idea of something existing without a cause, does not fit how the universe works. In fact, for many years, many scientists have been searching for something that exists without a cause. They simply won't accept that the ignorant among us have found such. It is God.
For example, can you prove that the earth was ever truly created as opposed to it simply being a large space rock that was pulled into the sun's orbit, and then sculpted by solar wind and meteorites into the shape it currently has?
The fact that all material has a beginning shows that there at least was creation of that which ultimately became the material of the earth.
Why are you so dead set against God? Everything shows that God exists. Live with it. You will only wind up destroying yourself if you fight it.