The God Argument

The God Argument is based on the philosophy that if you can disprove all possible answers to a question except one, then that one answer is true! An example of this would be if you are taking a multiple choice test with four choices, and you know that B, C, and D are wrong, then you know A is correct! You prove 'A' is correct by disproving the other three choices. You do not need to directly prove that A is correct, it is correct by default.

And thus The God Argument starts with the following multiple choice question:

How did the universe come into existence?

1. The Universe is Eternal

2. The Universe is an Illusion

3. The Big Bang Caused the Universe

4. God Created the Universe

So we have three possible answers (other than god) to our question, but is that really all there are? No, but any other option would have to claim the universe is either:

- Not Real
- Real and Eternal
- Real and With a Beginning

It is impossible to think of another option that doesn't fall into one of these three buckets. There is for example the YoYo Theory that says the universe has expanded and contracted forever, but this is just another version of the Eternal Universe argument. Or perhaps the Multiverse Theory which says there are multiple universes, but this would still require a beginning. If you say it wouldn't, then it is just another Eternal Universe argument. So while there are other variations of the three, they would all inherit the same problems with science and logic we will now demonstrate.

Let us note that we are not making claim to any specific god and we use the lowercase 'g' for god except in the titles or headers.

Is The Universe Eternal?

The Kalam Argument (actually part of this larger argument) demonstrates using simple logic that the universe cannot be eternal. The argument is initially credited to Aristotle.

The Kalam argument says that if the universe is eternal (has always been and always will be), then the past must be eternal and without a beginning. But if the past was eternal, then we could have never arrived at the present. To get to the present from an eternal past, means we would have had to traverse (go through) an infinite amount of time (all of eternal history)! But that's impossible, it's like trying to count to infinity, you can count on forever but you will never arrive! A good analogy is trying to jump out of a bottomless pit, you won't have much luck if there is no point in which you can jump from.

Another way to look at this is you can only have a finite succession of events. For example the earth could only have spun a finite number of times. It could continue spinning on forever, but at any point in the future, the number of times it had spun would always be a finite number. If the universe were eternal, it would have no past or future like we know them, but rather it would exist in a moment of eternity where time never flows.

It has been argued that there is an infinite amount of space between any two points. They say if you continue to split the amount of space in half, that you could continue doing so forever. And thus there is an infinite amount of space between any two points. But this is not true as no matter how far you break down this space, the math will always add up to a finite number. For example one half plus one half of 1/2 inches is 1/2 inches. Also, since we can only continue to split this space in half a finite number of times, you will never have an infinite amount of splits. So you can forever split a finite amount of space in half, but it always remains a finite amount of space. There could also very well be a smallest measure of space.

Some will also say that since time had to start at some point, then the past would have been eternal before this starting point, and thus we have traversed infinite. But before there was time, time didn't flow and thus zero time was traversed.

The world of time we live in and eternity are two very different things. Time cannot be eternal in the past as we could never traverse infinity or have an infinite succession of past events. The universe could go on forever without end, but this is different from being eternal and unchanging.

Choice #1 is false.

Is The Universe Just an Illusion?

The argument that the universe is an illusion seeks to avoid the whole god and Big Bang issue by simply saying the universe really doesn't exist. In fact as we are part of the universe, it means that we do not exist either, and thus we don't need to worry about the origin of the universe because it's not real. This is perhaps the weakest argument we will look at, but nevertheless we will logically debunk it.

Let's start with the definition of the word illusion. According to answers.com, an illusion is "an erroneous perception of reality". When we look at this definition, the key word is perception! Illusion is dependant upon perception and to have an illusion means you need a "real" observer perceiving it! Without an observer there is no illusion. If you are experiencing the universe, whether it is matter, quarks, or just an illusion of them, in any case, you are real. And if you are real then there is still something and thus we are back at the same problem of where did this "something" come from?

So we cannot negate the universe by simply saying it is an illusion. We can say it is like the movie the "Matrix" and the universe is not exactly how we perceive it to be. But there still has to be a "reality" behind the illusion or minimally something experiencing it.

Choice #2 is false.

Did the Big Bang Cause the Universe?

Scientists tell us they can trace the beginning of the universe back to the first microsecond. They trace time back to an initial explosion we have come to know as the "Big Bang" that caused the universe we now experience. According to this theory the universe started from "singularity" (an immensely dense state) and the universe then exploded out of this. This is the theory used to account for the origins of the universe by atheists and/or evolutionists, and is of course backed up by science. So does the Big Bang theory backed by science remove god from the equation?

Let's go back to my first sentence and how science traces time back to the first microsecond of history. The problem is that they can't account for what happened before, or when there was no universe or nothing! In other words the Big Bang theory doesn't tell us anything about the initial "cause" of the universe or where it came from, just how it happened. In fairness to the Big Bang Theory, it doesn't make any claims as to what happened before singularity. Mainstream science simply says they don't know what initially caused the universe or how singularity came to be.

So regarding the problem of the origin of the universe, this doesn't tell us anything. It doesn't explain how something initially came out of nothing. If the universe is finite as this option holds to, then there would have been absolutely nothing and then there would have been something which then exploded into the universe. So "something" had to come from "nothing" if we say god did not cause the Big Bang. But this goes against the laws of science. Science says that "energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form". So if energy cannot be created but only change its form, then how could something initially come from nothing? The answer is it can't happen unless you break the laws of science!

Let's now do an experiment to try and prove something can come from nothing. First we need absolutely nothing and let's put it in a box. I believe Wal-Mart sells boxes of nothing for next to nothing. Then let's sit and wait for something to appear. Remember we cannot add anything to our experiment, such as a spark or some kind of fuel, we can only wait. If we wait long enough something will surely come from the nothing in our box. Some gold coins would be real nice! Does this sound like science to you? But this is what many scientists want you to believe regarding the universe, the same ones that make light out of the belief that god created the universe.

*To the scientist who stills believes this theory, you have to ask yourself how big of a bang would it take to draw the entire universe out of singularity?

Science may soon figure out a way to tap the earth's magnetic field with some kind of "free energy" device. The device may give out more energy than is put in, but in this case it would simply be tapping into the earth's magnetic field, and not creating energy. Think of a "free energy" battery (worth millions) that as it's being used and drained of its energy, gets that energy instantly replaced from the earth's magnetic field. This energy would not be coming from nothing, but simply somewhere else, and not be breaking the laws of science.

In conclusion, something cannot come from nothing, and this option is impossible unless we break the laws of science.

Choice #3 is false.

God Created the Universe

Now that we have shown that the first three options could not be true, god had to have created the universe. Proving god exists or doesn't exist directly is impossible to do, but proving he exists through disproving all other options is not. And in response to the question of where the universe came from, a creator god makes the most sense when we properly use science and logic.

This is not the same thing as saying "a dragon in my garage created the universe since no other explanation is right", as this dragon would be part of this universe and couldn't have created it. If you say this dragon is eternal and outside of time and space, then this is the same concept of god. You're just calling god a dragon.

*We define god as simply someone eternal (no beginning), unchanging, and with a WILL to act. God exists in but a moment of eternity where there is no succession of events, thoughts, or time. God does everything he will ever do at every point in time at one time.

Knowing that the universe cannot be eternal, a complete illusion, and that it could not have come from nothing (without breaking the laws of science and logic), god is the only explanation left standing.

So now we finally know the answer to what came first the chicken or the egg? The answer is G-d (who simply is) came first and created the chickens and then came the eggs.

One thing that is very interesting is there is one particular creation story that says the universe was created by song. Some of the latest scientific theories claim that the universe is nothing more than waves, simply a bunch of frequencies. How interesting is it that the Bible says that god "spoke" the world into existence!

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