Quote (russian @ Apr 8 2012 05:56am)
Your arguments are clearly nonsensical, and many others have already pointed out that the mere existence of matter does not imply its creation out of nothing any more than the mere existence of god implies god's creation out of nothing.
If god can exist forever, why can't matter?
Because if Matter could exist without a cause, then we would see it coming into existence on it's own all of the time. The laws of science would have to be re-written. Science is not on your side.
There are no laws of science to be broken by allowing for eternal existence of the universe, in one way or another, without a starting point.
Yes, there are. Logically, IF matter and energy requires a cause to BEGIN to exist, it requires a cause to exist in the first place, therefore, it is impossible for matter and energy to exist, yet they do.
Perhaps the Big Bang singularity has existed always, or was at one point in a different state. Perhaps the universe goes through some sort of cycles, where it expands and then contracts again, only to explode outward, forever and ever for reasons we just haven't figured out and possibly never will
Maybe there was no Big Bang.
Besides, our "laws" of science are descriptive, not prescriptive. Matter doesn't obey our laws, our laws just describe what we see the best way we can. Maybe matter can be created or destroyed under circumstances we simply never encountered before. As we learn more about antimatter and quantum physics, maybe these laws will follow the path of Newton's gravity - "good enough" for most situations, but not all. At one point people used god to explain the existence of lightning and wind, now you are using god to explain the existence of matter and energy. It's an argument from ignorance, and it's a sad, sad thing.
What you are expousing here isn't science. It's faith. What you are saying is that you have FAITH that as we learn more about the universe that we will learn that matter and energy can be created. That isn't science. According to science as we know it, matter cannot be created nor destroyed.
But even all of that aside, what exactly makes you think that this "creator" is the Christian god? Why not Allah? Pretty sure he has always existed and created the universe too. How about Zeus? Ra? Vishnu? FSM?
Ahh, now we are making progress right? Let's explore why this Creator must be the Christian God shall we?
This video explains why the Christian God is the One and Only True and Living God and not Islam:
http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=J9CF9FNUIslam is easily disprovable. Islam is based upon the Koran. The Bible was written hundreds of years before the Koran and by the eyewitnesses to the events. The Bible is supported by secular history, church history, science and othewise. The Koran contradicts secular history and the bible (eyewitness testimony). It was written by one man, mohammad who twisted up the biblical stories to make his own religion. He murdered thousands of Christians and forced thousands to convert or die.