Can natural law ethics exist without God? If so, how? If not, why not?

It seems to me that it is impossible to answer this question with any degree of certainty. In order to believe in those laws, the existence of God needs to be proven first. Moreover, the laws themselves, in actuality, are not laws because they do not apply to every living being. Last but not least, looking at the question from a totally different perspective, it appears to me that natural laws cannot exist without God, because God is what defines them. Firstly, for the natural law to exist the existence of God needs to proven; if there isnt anyone to create it then there is nothing to be created. Until now, none of the reasons any of the philosophers have provided us can give such assurance. Thomas Aquinass Cosmological Argument is full of flaws and it is incapable of proving anything; simply stating that there has to be the beginning, because a change had to start somewhere is not strong enough for proving existence of God. If everything has to have a reason/beginning then God needs it as well. And if there is a possibility that God did not need a reason to become then there is a chance that world did not need it as well. As a matter of fact, there is absolutely no reason why world would not be able to come into being on its own, and perhaps it has always existed and the form of time does not even apply to it. Now, lets talk about natural laws themselves. Are those laws even valid? According to Thomas Aquinas God imprinted his plan on all animals and humans, and acting according with nature means acting with obedience to Gods will. God created sex so we could produce offspring, therefore according to natural law, homosexual behavior is forbidden. God also created over 1,500 animal species that engage in homosexual and bisexual behavior like dwarf

chimpanzees, for example. Those species act naturally, therefore we have to assume that homosexuality is accepted by God and rejected only by church. For the sake of argument lets consider what I said in previous paragraphs is wrong, and that God actually created natural laws. Now, would those laws exist if God were taken out of equation? My answer is no, they would not exist. God is what defines those laws and make them valid. Once we strip them from the existence of God they become something else, more like suggestion. No matter how hard I try to answer this question, I keep hitting dead ends. This tends to sway me to the opinion that we are pondering on a question that is mostly based on ones believes, faith or lack of it.