"Something cannot come from nothing. Therefore, God exists."?

Question

What do you think of this argument? Valid? Sound? Reasonable?

Answer 1

If everything has a creator and since something can't come from nothing, then where did god come from?

Answer 2

I can see you are getting the stock answers. As it stands the assertion, while perhaps true, doesn't follow without a lot of work. What some of your responders must come to realize is that there are two sorts of "reasons for things." Those reason which are "necessary" and those reason which "require further explanation." It take it that most theists would put god in the former rather than latter category; so, if it were true that "Something cannot come from nothing." and if it were also true that god was necessary, and if it followed that God exists; then it would also be true that god does not require further explanation. That renders the assertions that god would in fact require an explanation moot.

HTH

Charles

Answer 3

Not reasonable.


Follow the argument. If the universe need a creator, then god exists.

But now god must, by the same logic, need a creator - so god^2 exists.

But now god^2 must, by the same logic, need a creator - so god^3 exists.

And so on, producing an infinite number of gods creating an infinite number of gods to have the one at the bottom create us.



People who use this argument try and get out of it by something called 'special pleading'. This basically says that god is special and is so exempt from needing a creator.

Why god gets to be special in this way and the universe does not they cannot answer.

Answer 4

As written, your argument is incomplete. SomeTHING from noTHING is not quite what Christians, Jews and Muslims for example, argue; rather it is that this well ordered universe filled with logical laws of physics, one of which is the conservation of matter and energy, did not come into existence UNCAUSED.

Here's a better argument:
1. That which BEGINS to exist has a cause.
2. The universe began to exist;
3. Therefore the universe has a cause.

In order for something to be the cause of something, it must be a SUFFICIENT cause.

Now compare:
An orderly universe filled with intelligent beings obsessed with order and purpose came about from blind, disorderly events which proceeded from the big bang. Galaxies, stars and solar systems coalesced from the chaos. Water formed on Earth. Molecules called amino acids began to form. Amino acids formed RNA, then some primitive one celled creature, then some multi-celled creature, then marine plants and fish, then amphibians, then lizards and mammals, then man. All of this was the result of blind purposeless happenstance. Blind purposeless happenstance created sighted, intelligent, purpose obsessed orderly beings.

OR:
God, filled with wisdom and supreme intelligence created a universe which would reflect this.

Answer 5

Nothing came from nothing. Even without god the big bang theory is still valid. It states that everything in the universe was once contained in a small area of space and soon it became too much pressure and was all released. Everything was there, God doesnt need to exist for everything to be created.

Answer 6

You must first assume that God exists before this argument can stand to reason...

example: If I think that Zebras have existed since before time: then if something cannot come from nothing...it would mean that Zebras must be real...

Anything can fit in the place of "God"...in this argument: including atoms, energy, gravity, etc...

Answer 7

Equally as logical as "Something cannot come from nothing,therefore TheFSM exists. Equally valid,equally sound,equally reasonable

Answer 8

It is a stupid argument.

Why?

God is something and something cannot come from nothing therefore God can't exist

Answer 9

On a sub-atomic level, all matter is made of energy and nothing. Therefore everything that exists came from nothing.
How can God not exist exactly as he is described?

Answer 10

Something cant come from nothing therefore God can not exist.

Answer 11

God never started or ended. God was always there. That is different from saying the universe just all of the sudden started with a big bang or whatever you want to call it.