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Author Topic:   My mind's in a knot... (Re: Who/what created God?)
Phat
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Message 10 of 156 (462681)
04-07-2008 2:28 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by Grizz
04-06-2008 3:59 PM


Uncaused First Causes
Grizz writes:
The question 'Who created God?' then boils down to 'why is it necessary for there to be a God?'
I believe that it makes more sense for any type of creation....be it a thought, a word, a physical invention, or a math formula...to have had a Creator.
I also don't see a problem with assuming that a Creator need not be created.
As we ask ourselves these questions, we ourselves are becoming wannabe creators of theories. where did our thoughts on these issues originate from? In other words, when Thomas Edison invented all of his patented ideas, were his thoughts formulated originally by him or did the thoughts (and ideas) previously exist?
Another example: Say I build a robot that talks and thinks. The robot, upon being activated, looks at me and blurts out "who created you"?
What audacity for the robot to assume that his Daddy had to have a Daddy!! Why the need for infinite regress? Why must humans seek an answer except the one they don't like?

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Phat
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Message 19 of 156 (464242)
04-24-2008 9:27 AM
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04-15-2008 2:59 PM


Re: Uncaused First Causes
Basically it just boils down to the simple question:
Was there anything that has always existed?
If so, is it animal (unlikely
vegetable(also unlikely)
or mineral? Possibly....
But the Deity makes more sense
As a philosophical concept, God has only two basic options.
Either God created us, thus making the question of who created Him unanswerable
or we humans imagined God...in which case we can make the story turn out any way we so imagine.

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