Nope. Because he is immutable. God exists by the necessity of his own nature.
Nope. Were not talking about strings, we are talking about the inevitable first cause. I am explaining why the first cause must have certain attributes which would be evident in a deity. If you want to rename this first cause as strings, then fine.
Again:
Immaterial
Immutable
Powerful
Transcendent
You can name whatever thing holds these traits whatever you want, the fact is that we have many attributes which we could assign to at least a deist God. As I've said, I have other arguments for other necessary traits this first cause has, but first I have to ground this argument.
Are you even listening to yourself? So you're saying that, because we can't yet (and perhaps never will) understand how our universe came to be, there has to be an all powerful being that created it. That is your argument. But it is being based off nothing more than a guess. But you say it is right creating reasons that somehow "prove" what you're saying is right.
Your entire argument in a nutshell: Something has to have created the universe, but while being eternal, therefor God. But if someone brings up the perfectly legitimately point that God could not be eternal, you say (rather conveniently) that he has somehow always existed, that he just was. This is exactly like someone saying "I'm right because I am". Does that in fact make them right? No!
I'm not the greatest at putting my thoughts into words, so my argument could
most definitely be a lot better, and I'm hoping other members that agree with me will help me to better word it.
Something I want to add, and correct me if I am wrong please, is that the entire argument that the universe can't be eternal rests upon time being linear. But if I am actually remembering something I have learned, and not just making crackpot theories, it's not, and in face works in weird ways. Again, I could very well be wrong, and have a feeling I am, so anyone that knows if I am or not, please inform me.
But I digress. The fact of the matter is that our way of thinking is quite constrained, there are many things we cannot understand, and in our race's infancy, we were still asking the same questions as we are now: how did all of this come to be here? what is out there? The difference between now and then is, now we have tools to help us find out, to understand, but back then we had very little, and the idea of a god(s) was an easy explanation, a convenient answer. And it is because of that, that we stuck with it, and why it (and religion) is still so prominent today.
And just something I want to add, my personal theory as to how our universe came to be:
Before our universe there was another universe, but as it cooled, expanded, and died, black holes formed throughout it, and eventually combined into one super-massive black hole (this may be completely impossible for all I know, but like I said, it is just my personal theory, my way of trying to understand the beginnings of our universe). This super-massive black hole—that now contained an entire universe in an infinitely small (not literally of course, it would just be damn small
) amount of space, causing it to be unstable, which ultimately led to the big bang. The amount of energy within the black hole could no longer contain itself, exploding into what is our universe. As to how the universe before was formed, I don't know. It could have been the same process, which of course could lead to an infinite regression, or could lead to some other explanation that I, and humans, are unable to understand. But to me, just because I can't explain it, does not mean it was a god or gods (simply because the idea behind gods are that they created the entire universe, a vast expanse, just for one species out of billions that happen to inhabit a spec of dust among that ever expanding universe)
