Bellow I have listed some arguments by creationists that I have always had problems with, even when I wasn’t an atheist.
The first problem:
1. Everything has a beginning.
2. Therefore the world also has a beginning.
3. The cause of that beginning is god.
Let’s say the first premise is true. The second premise would be a derivation of the first premise. Let’s also assume that god is the cause of the universe. Now, from the first premise, god also needs to have had a beginning. So who created god? And who created the one who created god? And who created the one who created the one who created god? This goes on forever and ever.
The second problem:
The world is so perfect that it needs to have been created by some perfect being.
If perfection is an indication of creation, then god as a perfect entity, needs also to have been created by a perfect being, who also needs to have being created by another perfect being who….
Gosh, this sounds so much like the Plato’s forms.
If god does not need a beginning, then why does the universe needs one? And if god as a perfect being didn’t need to be created then why the universe does?
There is so much double standard in religious believes. The bases of many religions are in themselves a contradiction to the religious believes that are derived from them.Labels: Morality, Philosophy, Religion |
