Religious people make the very common mistake of thinking that a ‘supreme being’ (viz., god) is needed in order to explain something from nothing (i.e., how the first particle came from nothing). First off, we can ALWAYS rule god out as an explanation of ANYTHING. I will re-state this: GOD IS NEVER AN EXPLANATION OF ANYTHING. It doesn’t matter what it is, god NEVER explains it. Why? Because god is an infinitely COMPLEX being. This means that to invoke god as an explanation is to do the OPPOSITE of explain anything. In order to explain something, you must describe X in simpler terms. God is ALWAYS more complex than ANYTHING you are trying to explain (by virtue of him being infinitely complex) therefore making it impossible to explain anything in terms of god. The simplest EXPLANATION of anything is to explain something in terms of nothing. the only thing simpler than one particle is zero. The CERN is attempting to prove this very theory and we should soon know how to get ‘something from nothing’.

Next, if you needed an ‘uncreated creator’, there is NO reason to think such a creator is god. The creator need NOT be omnipotent, only sufficiently powerful; it need NOT be omniscient, only sufficiently knowlegable; it need NOT be omnibenevolent, in fact, it could be PERFECTLY EVIL. This means that the ‘creator’ argument does nothing for thinking god exists, and actually makes it MORE likely that he doesn’t. Lastly, there is NO reason for thinking there was only ONE creator. Whose to say that there aren’t hundreds, millions, or trillions of uncreated creators. If you are willing to make the ‘jump’ to one, there is no reason to deny the existence of many.

Hope this helps.

I cannot give you my thoughts on the beginning of time because I have no idea on what you want my thoughts. I need more specifics. It’s like asking my thoughts on air; I need a specific question.

Now, you might want to do a little more research before posting on things you are obviously ignorant about. First, the Christian god is NOT Yahweh, that is the JEWISH god from the Old Testament. Next, the Christian god is NOT compatible with Free Will. No matter how much you may want it to be, it simply isn’t.

The LAST argument you want to make is to say that any god is outside of time (i.e., atemporal). This makes ABSOLUTELY SURE that you CANNOT have free will of any sort for if god is atemporal and sees everything simultaneously, then god has 100% control over everything that happens. Given that god can make whatever he wants to happen occur, and given the fact that god, controlled by his 3-O qualities, must make the best world possible, god is automatically responsible for ANY and ALL evil that HAS occurred or will EVER occur throughout ‘time’. This is completely incompatible with god being omnibenevolent meaning that god doesn’t exist. No competent theist would ever argue that god is atemporal; it’s just plain stupid.

Now, on to what you ‘pointed out’ in my post. I made a typo, so what? Whether or not I spell everything correctly when I am typing something out quickly has no bearing on the point the post is making. To criticize a belief, I need NOT use perfect spelling; I need use perfect LOGIC.

I see the side of the fence on which you sit! LOL!

I suggest starting at 3rd grade and going from there. Good luck!

As for the argument that belief in God and free-will is incompatible, you do not understand the fact that the Christian God, Yahweh, is outside of time. When you exist outside of time, you have quite a different perspective on things. You see the beginning from the end. You can see all the choices people make before they make them. Therefore, a person can do whatever he or she wants, while Almighty Jah looks on from eternity.