Gregorymcd
August 31, 2003, 04:17 PM
I would like to extend a couple of this author's arguments. Is God the ultimate cause of the universe? Whenever our understanding is limited humans seem to conclude that "God did it" whatever was done. Lightening? Must be God. Terrible storms? An act of God. Planets moving across the sky? Must be Gods. The sun comes up every day? Must be God. As our understanding grows each of these and many other natural occurrences has lost its need to be explained by "God". Eventually the need to have "God" as the explanation of the cause of the Big Band will probably fall also. However, even if it does not fall, or in the time between now and when it falls, it is still a pointless argument. Saying "God caused the universe" is almost the same as saying nothing. What does that tell us about God? Only that God can and did start the universe. It does not say God runs the universe or that God has any interest in mankind whatsoever. It implies nothing about religion at all. One might just as well use the title "primal cause" as "God". Just because there is a certain logic to the argument that there must have been a beginning does not say anything about the intention, if any, of that which began it all. Just because we think in terms of beginnings and endings does not mean that applies to the universe.