Creationists: So, if Intelligent Design implies that everything requires a maker....?

Question

What then made God?

You yourselves say that life could not have come from nothing. Can God have come from nothing? Or was He actually created?

Or you will tell me that Intelligent Design does not apply to God?

INSPECTOR....can you EVER answer a question, instead of asking another question?

This penchant of you demonstrates that you're full of questions.

Books cure ignorance. Read one from time to time, they don't bite.

Answer 1

Can you believe all of the wingnuts answering this, "god has always been", no wonder the human race is in such a sorry state! With so many people who can't think for themselves, and with all of these mindless drones running around, it is surprising that we haven't killed off the whole population yet, but give it a little more time, because one of them is currently in the residing in the White House. Duck and Cover!

Answer 2

Around and around we go...this is one of those questions that is merely a deceptive ploy on the behalf of non-creationists to try and "stump" creationists. You know not one person can answer your question. God is eternal. Eternal is the opposite of temporal, no beginning, no origin...always was, always will be. Period. So yes, Intelligent Design does not apply to God. I fail to comprehend how that is a problem to the statement of "everything requires a maker". The everything in question is all temporal...not eternal...therefore requiring an origin. A better question would be where does energy or matter or primordial ooze etc...come from. Such temporal things require an origin. Of course I can not answer that either...thousands of scientists (creationists and non-creationists alike) are working very diligently on that very question. There is lots of evidence taht can argue for a creator as well as of lots of evidence that could argue against a creator. In our lifetime is this likely to be proven definitively, probably not. ... here are 2 quotes from very accomplished creationists: Wernher von Braun, First Dir. of NASA "We in NASA were often asked what the real reason was for the amazing string of successes we had with our Apollo flights to the Moon. I think the only honest answer we could give was that we tried to never overlook anything. It is in that same sense of scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance." - Lord Kelvin Physicist, Laws of Thermodynamics, Absolute temperature scale, inventor "With regard to the origin of life, science...positively affirms creative power." "Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us...the atheistic idea is so non-sensical that I cannot put it into words."
God Bless

Answer 3

He exists outside of time and has always been. Oh, heck, that doesn't work!



Yes, Inspector --- let's hear an answer. There is a facility for asking questions in case you haven't noticed.


James6811 ? -
Esther -- that is pure conjecture. Can you answer with empirical proof? I don't know where it says that God exists outside of time and has always been. Enlighten me.

Semper -- Actually I believe Genesis indicates that God and our Universe and our Earth existed along with God. Our Earth was a void or unformed or covered with water and our Universe much the same without light.

Jamie68117 - Very interesting. I'll take a look.

Johnboy -- there are billions of stars (suns) in our galaxy. Have you any comprehension of billions? There are also billions of galaxies full of billions of stars. And you can look to a starry night and look also at our world and definitively say there is no other place similar to ours?

Answer 4

Ah... but that's the loophole in the argument.

Apparently it's perfectly acceptable to assume that God (or whatever they want to imagine the "designer" is called) is simply exempt from their all encompassing argument. Obviously if everything has been designed, a designer must exist, but how to explain the existence of the designer? They've thought up a brilliant solution: DON'T. Don't explain it's existence. It's the only thing in existence that ISN'T contingent upon this worldview.

And that's just how they like it.

Answer 5

Drop all these BS answers and replies. There is no God. THERE IS NO GOD. Read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. And then read "The Blind Watchmaker" by the same author. I dare you religionists to do so.
Try to dump your predjuces and childish indoctrinations. Be logical instead of emotional. It's a revelation to supersede the one in the Bible.

Answer 6

Sir Oliver ! I'm just replying coz I wanted to tell you your avatar is the coolest, I love it ! :):):) You gave me a big smile :)

Oh, er...as the question, well - I'm not a christian, but I don't see why both intelligent design and a big ol' goofy Bang could'nt both be correct - ? Ergo - I vote the theory of Intelligent Big Bang Good God Almighty Monkey Love.

Answer 7

people dont understand that God's powers are so magnificent and can bend time and space, we could never wrap our minds around it and fully understand God's power because it's so huge. we're just small little beings on a rotating dirt ball with water, clouds, and grass.
I cant explain to you where God came from, it's unexplainable for us humans. but it's called faith when it comes to beleiving in God's power. I beleive He created everything. it's just harder for some people (like yourself) to have faith when science is constantly throwing things in your face and trying to convince you that a Creator had nothing to do with it.
even einstein said (or some famous scientist) that something had to have triggered the "big bang" if it, in fact, really happened.
to me, life makes too much sense (bodies, night and day, weather, etc....) for Someone not to have started it.

Answer 8

i think God created the universe, yet i'm unsure with regards to the complexity argument. sometime whilst a complicated concept is decreased to an elementary one, that takes spectacular perception, revelation, and discovery. in spite of each little thing it took some perception so as to comprehend the planets shifting in elliptical orbits fairly than the Ptolemaic equipment's epicycles.

Answer 9

i've read in a book (i think by paul nancy or something like that) that the way time works is not the way it works in heaven, where god lives, aka heaven. god was always there, and time does not apply to him. nothing many things work like they do here. i think your really asking "what was god doing before he made us?"

Answer 10

God has always been:

Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.