An Atheist cannot answer that logically, they will in fact "fabricate" theory's and evidences to further brainwash secular people into believing that Garbage.
Another childish tactic used by the limited minds of non-believers is "Well, If God created the Universe, then who created God?"
This question is logically problematic. If everything needs a creator, than no matter what exists, it must have been created. Furthermore, to be created means that someone or something had to create it. But then, who created the creator and so on? Logically, this would mean there would be an infinite regression of creators and we would never be able to find the first, uncaused cause since, by definition (the questions says that "everything needs a creator") there wouldn't be any uncaused cause. This would mean that the sequence of creations is eternal. But, if it exists that there is an eternal regression of creators, then who created the infinite regression of creators? Remember, the question presupposes that all things need a creator -- even the eternal sequence of creators -- which becomes logically absurd. Furthermore, if there is an eternal regression of creators that are eternal, then the question is not answered. In fact, it cannot be answered since it weakness is that "all things need a creator." Of course, this only begs the question in that how did the process begin? Therefore, the question only raises the same problem it asks and it is a question that, by its own design, cannot be answered. Therefore, it is invalid.
The question is better phrased as a statement: "Everything that has come into existence, was brought into existence by something else." This is a more logical statement and is not wrought with the difficulties of the initial question. In the revised statement "Everything that has come into existence," implies that the thing that "has come into existence" did not already exist. If it did not already exist but then came into existence, then something had to bring it into existence because something that does not exist cannot bring itself into existence (a logical absolute). This pushes the regression of creators back to what we would call the theoretical "uncaused cause" since there cannot be an infinite regression of creators as discussed above and since in infinite number of creators would mean there was an infinite number of creations and created things including things that cannot be destroyed since they would constitute things that exist. If that is so, then the universe would have had an infinite number of created things in it and it would be full. But it is not full. Therefore, there has not been an infinite regression of creations.
By definition, the Christian God never came into existence; that is, He is the uncaused cause (Psalm 90:2). He was always in existence and He is the one who created space, time, and matter. This means that the Christian God is the uncaused cause and is the ultimate creator. This eliminates the infinite regression problem.
But some may ask, "But who created God?" But the answer is that by definition He is not created; He is eternal. He is the One who brought time, space, and matter into existence. Since the concept of causality deals with space, time, and matter, and since God is one who brought space, time, and matter into existence, the concept of causality does not apply to God since it is something related to the reality of space, time, and matter. Since God is before space, time, and matter, the issue of causality does not apply to Him.
2007-01-11 02:37:48
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answered by Anonymous
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So far, we don't know how where the universe came from, whether it has always been, or whether it will always be, or if there is more than one...these are questions that cosmologists and astrophysicists have been working on for a very long time. They don't have the answer yet, but there is no need to use God as a catch-all to explain everything we don't understand. God is a human invention, as evidenced by the mundane, human-centered writings in the Bible. A deity capable of creating the universe would have had more to tell us about the future than why we should obey ten rules. Perhaps if the Bible contained something like e=mc2...that would have been handy to have, or perhaps the Pythagoran Theorem.
Bottom line: Just because we don't get it doesn't mean that God did it.
2007-01-11 02:37:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Several things wrong with this.
Firstly, just because we don't yet know how the universe came to be doesn't mean god created it. We must base our theories on evidence and there is none in favor of a supreme being.
Secondly, if were were to conclude that god created it then who created god? It is even more difficult to believe that some being could be around forever without any evidence.
Thirdly, every time there is a gap in scientific understanding people attribute it to god. This works until the gap is filled and god has to move elsewhere. I'm confident that the mystery of the beginning of the universe won't always be a mystery.
2007-01-11 02:28:39
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answered by Anonymous
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But, if you actually read Stephen Hawking, you would know he never discounts a divine being as he knows it is equally impossible to prove or disprove. As for the use of the term 'natural laws', there are no such things, it is all theories. And theories can never be proved, we can only become more assured of their giving us results which coincide with observations. One failure however disproves them.
The odds of the universe starting with the right parameters for the development of complex organic beings is actually billions to one against. It happened. This is why we now have the theory of the mulitiverse, hundreds of billions of universes existing in parallel to allow for our development without having to accept an incredible coincidence of only one universe and that having exactly the right conditions for humanity to develop.
So, you have a choice,
1.hundreds of billions of other universes of which we have no evidence other than it makes the development of humans less likely to be chance (an assumption which does not stand up to Occam's razor)
2. We are the most incredible fluke
3. A divine being who set the conditions so we would develop.
And you try to say the third option is unlikely? What chance do you put on the first two?
2007-01-11 02:41:04
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answered by Elizabeth Howard 6
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Simple answer: Beats me. Seems like sometime a long time ago it just came about. Hard to understand how a person can think that way? You'll understand if you answer this question: Who do you think created God?
2007-01-11 02:28:03
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answered by Chris D 4
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I dono but i do love astronomy! The universe is actually growing, it expands by some minuscule degree all the time. So maybe there was a universe before this one that collapsed onto itself and expanded back out again. Who knows but it's so interesting!
2007-01-11 02:34:41
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answered by panda17 2
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There is no way for us as material creatures within the universe to know this. To presume to know is foolishness. We can examine reality through careful observation and experimentation but ultimately we can only look so far. The big bang is the barrier to our ability to observe. Those who profess to "know" the truth are either arrogant, fools, or both.
2007-01-11 02:32:16
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answered by Murazor 6
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There ISN'T a who or a what that created it. For the answer, which is WAY too long to explain here, go read Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Brian Green and others.
2007-01-11 02:26:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Before the Big Bang we don't know what happened or where it came from. But there is no reason to think that a person had to have created it.
2007-01-11 02:26:36
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answered by Alan 7
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Natural laws are all that are needed. Gods raise more questions than they answer to logical people. Who created gods? Priests did to control gullible people and take money from them for nothing real.
2007-01-11 02:29:05
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answered by miyuki & kyojin 7
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