WHO CREATED GOD?

God especially designed and crafted, through miraculous means, planet Earth, so that it would support life and human beings. The Earth is a product of divine design. Nevertheless, the declaration of a First Cause still leaves open the question, “Who created the creator?” After all, what is the difference between arguing in favour of an eternally existing creator versus an eternally existing universe without one? Krauss’s argument is not a very good objection because God, unlike the universe, is the sort of First Cause that accounts for His own existence. God is an infinite being, the Creator of time and space. It makes sense to say that He always existed, since He’s necessarily infinite. But the universe is not infinite, it is bound by time and space, and it had a beginning. Now, what if the questioner accepts that the universe had a beginning, but not that it needs a cause? Nevertheless, it is self-evident that things that begin have a cause—no one really denies it in his heart. All science and history would collapse if this law of cause and effect were denied. The universe cannot be self-caused. It did not become a reality all by itself. Nothing can create itself, because that would mean it existed before it came into existence, which is logically not possible. As Aristotle cogently argued, there must be a reality that causes but is itself uncaused (or, a being that moves but is itself unmoved). Why? Because if there is an infinite regression of causes, then by definition the whole process could never begin. And nothing is explained. In conclusion, the choice before us is not between ‘the universe with God’, and ‘the universe without God’. We must choose between ‘the universe with God’ and ‘no universe at all’. As we cannot opt for the proposition “no universe at all”, since the universe is too obvious a fact for us to deny its existence, therefore we have no option but to accept the proposition of “the universe with God.” o