Christians believe biological organisms were indeed poofed into existence by God.
However, atheists believe they were poofed into existence by NOTHING.
When you get right down to things like first cause, and the actual first origins of life... the atheist has nothing.
The atheist has a lot of argumentation... argumentation which defies all laws of logic, and defies all laws of physics, and NONE of it with any proof.
In short, the atheist has nothing.
How do you know what ALL atheists believe? The only thing all atheists have in
common is that they don't believe in a god. Everything else after that depends
on the person.
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The First Cause Argument, or
Cosmological Argument [
2], is
internally contradictory and raises the following questions: Who or what created god?, Why should a hypothetical ‘cause’ have any of the common attributes of a god?, Why is the ‘cause’ a specific god?, Why can’t the universe be causeless too? and, most importantly, Why rule out all other
possible explanations?
It is fundamentally a
‘god of the gaps’ approach. Our current lack of understanding concerning the Universe’s origins
does not automatically mean ‘god’ holds any explanatory value. Metaphysical and theistic speculation
are not immediately justified or correct simply because we lack a comprehensive scientific model. Uncertainty is the most
valid position and one can honestly say
“We just don’t know yet”.
The argument ignores the fact that our everyday understanding of causality has been arrived at via
a posteriori inductive reasoning – which means it might not apply to everything. Time, for instance, appears to have begun with the Big Bang, so there might not have been any ’cause’ for the Universe to be an ‘effect’ of since there was probably
no time for a ’cause’ to exist in. Applying concepts like time and causality to the Big Bang might be comparable to asking “What is north of the North Pole?” – ultimately nonsensical and incoherent. Furthermore, even if causality could be established it would not immediately imply the existence of a god, much less any
particular one, as the properties and nature of the ’cause’ could forever remain a mystery or be
naturalistic.
In fact, something can come from nothing and we are able to
observe it in the form of
virtual particles and
quantum vacuum fluctuations. They explain why the early universe lacked uniformity and provided the seeds for the
emergence of structure [
2][
3]. These quantum phenomena are also causeless in the sense that they are objectively and irreducibly
random, a fact confirmed by tests of
non-local realism and
Bell’s Theorem.
Note 1: Theists often state “God is outside of time”. This claim does not actually make their speculation correct. Instead, it brings with it a whole
host of problems and may be immediately dismissed as being without basis and a type fallacy known as
special pleading.
Note 2:
Cosmogony is the scientific study of the origins of the universe.
See also:
Carl Sagan on the topic (a must watch),
Hitchens, Hawking –
Did God Create the Universe? (a must watch), BBC Horizon –
What happened before the big bang?, BBC
Nothing (a must watch) and
‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss (a must watch).