I would like to address an argument I have been hearing lately. This is not an attack on or defense of religion, atheism, the Big Bang theory, or alternate models; nor does it provide reason to believe or not to believe in a god; but I hope discourages citation of this argument.
The argument attempts to refute “Godless matter-creation” (or a similar term) using the laws of conservation of energy and mass. Two options are available (as I would agree): either the Universe always existed or the Universe did not. The argument addresses this with a “solution” (or similar): God created the universe. With fairness of debate as well as entropy in mind, the question arises: who created God? Why not remove the middleman (God came from nothing or God was always there, then God created the universe): the Universe came from nothing or was always there. Certainly it works both ways.
I am not an expert on the subject, but my logic seems to hold—and I imagine most readers would agree. Adding God neither solves nor perpetuates the dilemma, and it certainly doesn’t disprove anything.
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