Just sent this to an atheist on YouTube...BLEW HIS MIND! I get atheists there to REALLY think about the nonsense they believe in, totally irrational as you see here.Here was my response:
"What do you believe? A first cause which was uncreated and with no beginning or end? No different than me, I just choose to believe that it was God who was uncreated. Evolution breaks the law of cause and effect. Big bang had a cause, and THAT had a cause and THAT had a cause until you MUST reach that first cause which caused everything. This first cause would have to be uncreated, if it was, then you break the rule of cause and effect, it not, then you have an eternal chain of causes going backward for eternity and never has a beginning, thus, you would still be believing in something that does not start anywhere!!! Either way, you CANNOT escape that fact that SOMETHING without a beginning started everything, either God or matter. But if matter, then again it HAS to have a cause which brought it into existence. Now your going backwards again through a never ending eternal chain of causes which never has a beginning, cause if it ever did, it would have to be God since matter cannot create itself from nothing without a cause, here we go backwards again!!! You can't escape God GET IT NOW???"
He wrote back and was PISSED! I notice they get mad, but none have refuted it. They can't.What nonsense do atheists believe in, Steve? It's not a group that makes you proclaim allegiance to a creed before you're allowed to go in the door. It's just a bunch of people who think it's a good idea to have evidence before one can make claims about things. That's about all they have in common.
You keep saying that science has a law of cause and effect. What is that law? Who formulated it? What facts about the universe is it meant to explain?
The concept you're talking about in this post has a name. It is called an infinite regress. Introducing God into the picture triggers an infinite regress. If I may employ your line of reasoning that everything must have a cause, and we define cause, as you seem to require, as the willful act of a sentient being, then did not that being require a cause to bring it about? And what brought that about? And that? And so on. God does not solve the problem.
The fact of the matter is that we don't know what caused the singularity that preceded our universe, or what caused it to blossom into a universe of immense (to us) size. Reputable science makes no claims on this topic. Why? Because there is no evidence from which to posit a hypothesis. Some people speculate, nothing more, that the universe is engaged in an endless cycle of big crunches where all matter falls into a single point, and big bangs, where it explodes out again into a brand new universe. The thought is intriguing. But we may never know.
All I can say is this. Since the recorded dawn of our species, pretty much everything that could not be explained at the time has been attributed to supernatural power. With the invention of the scientific method, we hit upon a tool that has helped us to systematically discover how things actually work. The history of science is one long train of events where something that had previously been attributed to supernatural influence, was found *and proven* to be the result of discoverable, testable laws. Every single thing to which we have applied the methods of science has yielded the same result. At no time has the answer ever turned out to be "God did it." Not ever. So then why should we now throw our hands in the air and give up trying to understand the universe? Invoking god is a cop out. And a dishonest, lazy, defeatist one at that. I say No Thanks!
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