WHO CREATED GOD?
Reasons to Believe
A COMMON argument from sceptics and atheists is that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. They question, “Who made God? Something does not come from nothing, so if God is a “something”, then He must have a cause?” Another form of the argument is: “If we believe that the universe was created by God—a Creator, then we must believe that God also has 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?”
Such questions are inherently flawed because God, by definition, is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.
If we are ready to accept and acknowledge creation or the universe without a creator, then why can we not accept a God without a creator?
How do we know this? We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist.
Since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it. God is beyond space, time and the principle of causation. People who reject God, however, continue to acknowledge and appreciate the universe we live in. If we are ready to accept and acknowledge creation or the universe without a creator, then why can we not accept a God without a creator?
Direct observational evidence for a Creator is impossible like for many other scientific facts. It is neither with those who believe in a God nor with those who deny God. However, indirect evidence of God is ubiquitous in nature and the universe is a valid reason and argument for belief in God. Some of those evidences are presented briefly here.
Origin of Matter, Space and Time
It has been established that time and space had a coincident beginning.
The universe was created from nothing through or after a ‘Big Bang’.
The discovery of the ‘Big Bang’ is proof that time, space and matter are
temporal and not eternal. The universe appears to be an effect and,
thus, is seemingly dependent upon something outside of and beyond
itself (a transcendent causal agent). The universe therefore, implies the
need for a Creator or Originator outside of space-time. The following is
a very interesting paragraph from a lecture by Stephen Hawking:
“Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there’s no way one could measure what happened at them. This kind of beginning to the universe, and of time itself, is very different to the beginnings that had been considered earlier. These had to be imposed on the universe by some external agency. There is no dynamical reason why the motion of bodies in the solar system cannot be extrapolated back in time, far beyond four thousand and four BC, the date for the creation of the universe, according to the book of Genesis. Thus, it would require the direct intervention of God, if the universe began at that date. By contrast, the Big Bang is a beginning that is required by the dynamical laws that govern the universe. It is therefore intrinsic to the universe, and is not imposed on it from outside.” (The Beginning of Time)
God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.
Even if we refuse to accept a ‘God’, reason demands that we acknowledge a Prime Mover or a power that caused the universe to happen. How can we acknowledge the universe and fail to acknowledge the cause of the universe? Feigning ignorance like many people do is turning a ‘blind eye’ or ‘looking the other way’.
Order and Design in the Universe
After the Big Bang, the delicate balance of uniformity and irregularity in
the inflationary expansion of the universe, the balance of matter, dark
energy and dark matter that is responsible for keeping the universe
stable as it expands, the perfectly tuned cosmological constant,
hydrogen and carbon formation, the sun’s luminosity, the forces and
laws in nature, the value of the various constants that determine
the nature of nature, and a million other features of the universe
demonstrate order and intelligent design.
This in itself establishes direction and purpose in the formation of the universe and consequently these are evidences for a Designer, Director and Prime Mover.
Many physicists, cosmologists and scientists have acknowledged this fact. For instance, Paul Davies says, “I concede that the universe at least appears to be designed with a high level of ingenuity. I cannot accept these features as a package of marvels which just happen to be, which exist reasonlessly. It seems to me that there is a genuine scheme of things—the universe is ‘about’ something.”
Fine-tuning for Life
Our unique planet Earth has been fine-tuned and custom-designed for
intelligent life—the Earth’s atmosphere, the Earth’s magnetosphere,
Earth’s geophysical history, water, vegetation, its position in the solar
system, its galaxy, its orbit, rotational axis, its satellite and a million
other features evidently prove this.
How can such a formidably complex system of the universe come about without a creative intelligence behind it? How can we refuse to believe in an Organizer of an organized universe? The most elegant, comprehensible and simple explanation for this reality is only possible by accepting an intelligent mind responsible for it. This intelligent mind designed a rational, ordered universe that produces intelligent beings capable of understanding that universe.
Many physicists, cosmologists and scientists have acknowledged that direction and purpose in the formation of the universe are evidences for a Designer, Director and Prime Mover.
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.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss in his book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, treats the question of “First Cause” as a serious argument against God:
Ultimately, many thoughtful people are driven to the apparent need for First Cause, as Plato, Aquinas, or the modern Roman Catholic Church might put it, and thereby to suppose some divine being: a creator of all that there is, and all that there ever will be, someone or something eternal and everywhere.
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.
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.
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.”