God is the logical solution. A quick and thorough consideration of the Creator God as First Cause
Did the Universe just *poof* into existence with no causation and did all material things, time, celestial bodies, physical laws, information, life and consciousness just happen? Is everything a remarkable happenstance? Just a yet-unexplained ancient explosion from nothing to everything that happened to set in motion processes that formed and sustain life and existence?
Are there infinite universes and therefore a Universe in which we could exist be inevitable as one of uncountable possibilities?
Is the Universe and all existence simply a kind of dream of a universal collective consciousness and in fact there is nothing material at all? Could it be the Universe is in and of itself God? Is every thing and person all a part of this collective Godhead?
When people consider the idea of a Creator God versus a Universe that appeared or "just is" the questions pile up rapidly. There is a considerable amount of historical evidence for the existence of a Creator God and as it happens, most cultures have had a belief in a Creator God in the past if not held now. Without going into details about the differences between the God of the Bible and other deities, let's first consider the idea of a Creator God versus a random formation, a multiverse scenario and other concepts by addressing one of the most common and not-well-thought out objections to a Creator God: Who made God? Creation.com has answers and a series of comments and questions that thoroughly cover the subject.
This question is a major objection that atheists put forward to justify their disbelief.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), a famous British philosopher, in his influential
little essay, Why I am not a Christian, put this forward as his first objection. Today’s atheists repeat
the objection, including Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and Australia’s
own Philip Adams at the 2010 Global Atheists’ Congress in Melbourne Australia,
who said,
This principle of causation is so fundamental that if I said that the chair you are sitting on, which must have had a beginning, just popped into existence without any cause, you might justifiably think I need a psychiatric assessment!
The universe had a beginning; almost no one disputes that, because the laws of thermodynamics
demand it: the universe is running down and it cannot have been running down forever,
or it would have already run down. No stars would be still churning out
energy and we would not be here.
Some have proposed one universe giving birth to another, but again, there cannot be an infinite series of such births and deaths, as each cycle must have less energy available than the last and if this had been happening for eternity, the death of everything would have already happened.
Are there infinite universes and therefore a Universe in which we could exist be inevitable as one of uncountable possibilities?
Is the Universe and all existence simply a kind of dream of a universal collective consciousness and in fact there is nothing material at all? Could it be the Universe is in and of itself God? Is every thing and person all a part of this collective Godhead?
When people consider the idea of a Creator God versus a Universe that appeared or "just is" the questions pile up rapidly. There is a considerable amount of historical evidence for the existence of a Creator God and as it happens, most cultures have had a belief in a Creator God in the past if not held now. Without going into details about the differences between the God of the Bible and other deities, let's first consider the idea of a Creator God versus a random formation, a multiverse scenario and other concepts by addressing one of the most common and not-well-thought out objections to a Creator God: Who made God? Creation.com has answers and a series of comments and questions that thoroughly cover the subject.
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Who created God?
It’s an illogical question
If a creator God needs to have been made by a creator, that creator would also need
a creator who needs a creator … like an infinite chain of toppling dominos,
which is an impossibility.
“The great argument for God was that there had to be a Creation, a beginning. … But my objection was simple. If God was the beginning who began God?”
This principle of causation is so fundamental that if I said that the chair you are sitting on, which must have had a beginning, just popped into existence without any cause, you might justifiably think I need a psychiatric assessment!
Some have proposed one universe giving birth to another, but again, there cannot be an infinite series of such births and deaths, as each cycle must have less energy available than the last and if this had been happening for eternity, the death of everything would have already happened.