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From: erics@uottawa.UUCP (Eric Smith)
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Subject: Re: Created Yesterday
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 16:25:24 EDT
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In <45200012@hpfcms.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:

>The god model is not a simple solution, or a solution at all, because
>it leaves unanswered at least as many questions as it answers.  That
>god created the world begs the question "Who created god?"  I could
>come up with atheory that said tha god1 created th world and that god2
>created god1.  Furthermore, I could say that there is an infinite series
>of gods, god1, god2, . . ., godn, . . ., etc.  This "theory" has as much
>merit as the monotheistic one, yet I suspect that you find it less
>appealing (correct me, of course, if I'm wrong).  Why?

>					Mike Sykora

	Of course, the simplest assumption (and the one held by
traditional theology) is that God has *always* existed, hence the question
"Where did God come from?" is irrelevant. The "theory" mentioned above
is much more complicated -- I would think that the simpler one would be
more likely to be true. 
	The idea that the *universe* has always existed is even
simpler; but various evidence, e.g. the mass of the universe, relative
abundance of deuterium, etc. seem to indicate that the universe
is a one-shot deal which arose out of nothingness ~15 billion years ago
(I'm sure I'll be corrected if inaccurate). So postulating a creator for
it seems reasonable; it's either that or have something spontaneously
created out of nothing. In any case, the creation of the universe is clearly
a 'supernatural' event, since it involves a gross violation of the law of
conservation of mass/energy.

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