The Existence of God - The First Cause Argument
Bertrand thinks that the first cause argument is fallacious
because it raises the question of "so who created God?" Today,
followers of Dawkins make the same arrogant remark along the lines
of "If everything need a cause, then who created God? Neh neh neh
bu bu!" But this objection is as superficial as it is immature. In
the first place, it is a strawman argument. The Christian does not
argue that everything must have a cause. The right argument is that
everything that has a BEGINNING must have a cause. God is eternal,
has always existed, and thus does not require a cause. Thus the
atheist's objection vanishes.
Atheists do
not say that everything has a cause. Christians say that
everything had to be created by god. This is the Creationist view
that Atheists attack.
Atheists say that if you want to believe everything has
a cause, then God
must also have a cause. You cannot pick and choose things
that are special and have no cause. If God has no cause, why
must everything else have a cause?
Everything that was made by something else, had a cause
up the chain, but each underlying building block of matter need not
have a cause. Can you create new matter, or destroy
it?
You cannot
spin a fairy tale story like the Bible around these facts and say
that something eternal made
them.
You did not read properly. I said that atheists knock down
strawman arguments by saying that Christians said that everything
has a cause. I repeat, the Christian says that everything that HAS
A BEGINNING has a cause. The universe we live in has a beginning,
therefore it requires a cause. Either you agree with this or you do
not. I will not allow the atheist to skirt and evade the
question by ask who created God (which in any case has been
answered many times). If I ask you who baked the cake, is it
relevant asking who is the parent of the one who baked the
cake?
So the question to you remains, WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THE
UNIVERSE? Instead of talking about many things, let's just cut to
the chase and sum it up at the level of the universe.
You have only TWO options as an atheist. Either the universe
made itself from nothing, or it always existed. Take your pick and
defend it.