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Yes, it does push the question back. The first cause might not be God though it does have to be something outside of the natural world. And once we accept that there do exist things outside of the natural world then we can be more open to the testimony of the prophets.

For the naturalist they have to come to grips with the fact that almost all scientist claim that the universe had a beginning. Yet at the same time they claim that matter and energy can never be created nor destroyed. clearly there is a contradiction operating here and it just might indicate that the scientist have at least one assumption wrong somewhere. Perhaps the one where they say there is nothing beyond the natural world - which is a faith based statement. Well probably and obviously that is the assumption they have wrong because they claim that something started the universe.

But unlike the natural universe which almost all the scientists are saying had a beginning, God is claimed to have always existed by almost all the religionists.