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Did God create or did it all just happen? We should consider… Since neither you nor I were there when it began we depend on the information we read. This is where logic and the law of non - contradiction are crucial to discovery. If there was a time when creation did not exist what made it exist? Since nothing is self caused, self creation is impossible, for even science teaches us out of nothing, comes nothing. The universe is not eternal? The scientific law of entropy shows everything is winding down from order to disorder, from complexity to chaos, and from strength to weakness. The current scientific view teaches that the universe had a specific beginning (called the Big Bang). If the universe were eternal it would have no beginning which would contradict a big bang. So one must decide on this as well. Instead of trying to remove a creator from the equation would it not be feasible that there was something that introduced what was not there before? This energy that was created must have an original source to become existent, operating as it does today. Where did that first something come from that affected the order of the universe? It's a tremendous leap of logic to believe that the universe with all its present intricacies of living things emerged from nothing and put things in order that is based on what is unseen. To have this effect without something that has an intelligence, superior to ours, an original cause is to deny everything we have learned and proven from physics and reality. Can the Big Bang be a creation event instead of being in the category of evolution? Did it not produce life? The universe has order (not just chaos), as parts of nature are interdependent on the other parts of its nature to a microscopic level, some we have yet to detect. As far as there being no God, in reality there are no atheists; only agnostics. For anyone to be absolutely sure that there is no God, they personally would have to look everywhere possible in the known and unknown (seen and unseen) universe throughout all of time to come to an ‘absolute conclusion’ that there is no God. They would then become the most intelligent being existing. Since no one has done this or knows anyone else who has, they can’t be absolutely sure there is no God. So this denial becomes more of a personal opinion. Science, and logic all show that life does not originate from non-life. This is teaching a supernaturalism that cannot be proven scientifically because it cannot be repeated to be verifiable. Concluding that the universe caused itself is simply not rational. No one who has ever seen something come from nothing. Logic teaches something existed before. So I propose another plausible explanation which is rational and scientific, that the universe was created by an intelligence that we call God, who is the creator, a personal all powerful eternal being. Because All design implies a designer. No one looks at a building and says that there was an explosion that made it. This being who created all must be eternal (uncaused) all-powerful, totally self-sufficient and has not changed throughout the eternity of existence. This being is not subject to the natural laws that he has made to govern the creation. God exists infinitely and eternally, having no beginning nor end, He alone is the uncaused cause of all things that exist, visible and invisible. It all comes back to first statement in the Bible, " In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth." He began it all, both what is seen and unseen, and holds all things together by his power. |
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