ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOD AND RELIGION — Part I From Physical Sciences

Universe was created by God—a Creator—then we must believe that God also has a Creator who must also have a Creator and so on. In this way there will be an endless series of Creators. Hence, isn’t it better to believe that this Universe came about without a Creator? Summary of Arguments from Physical Sciences God is an assumption arising from ignorance. All things formerly attributed to supernatural forces are now wholly explainable in terms of natural causes. All events can be explained in terms of common natural laws deduced from observations and calculations without recourse to spirit, God or any form of absolute power. If a universe can exist without a Creator, the existence of a Creator is also possible without a Creator. Reality is only that which can stand up to tests of observation and experience. God is not an object of perception, and religion cannot be subjected to scientific analysis and proved. Therefore it is an unrealistic account of real events. i.e if events are due to natural causes they are not due to supernatural causes. If God created the Universe, who created God? Analysis of the Argument from Physical Sciences Let us examine the argument which is based on research carried out in the field of the physical sciences, i.e. that studies of the universe have shown that whatever events take place do so in accordance with specific laws of nature. This argument would have it that there is no necessity to assume the existence of an unknown God in order to explain these events, since known laws already exist to explain them. The best answer to this argument is the one given by a Christian theologian: ‘Nature is a fact, not an explanation’. Physicists, of course, are right in saying that they have discovered the laws of nature, but what they have discovered is not, in essence, the answer to the problems for whose solution religion has come into existence. It is religion, which points towards the real causes of the