This is the question which has driven humanity since a time before recorded history. I can’t honestly say that God does not exist for certain but I can say that it goes against what evidence our scientists have gathered.
At the beginning of our universe, the Big Bang, matter started as fundamental particles, very simple. As time went forward, more complex atoms formed, hydrogen, one proton being circled by one electron. Eventually the force of gravity caused hydrogen to form stars and these stars became giant fusion reactors. The hydrogen fused into helium. Helium into lithium. Eventually these stars formed more complex elements and formed iron. The iron caused the stars to condense into such a tight ball that energy pushing out caused the star to explode, and during this explosion all the heavy elements were formed and were spread throughout space. More stars formed using this materials and planets began to form too. On one of these planets, carbon began forming complex molecules and life started. Life started simple and got more complex starting from bacteria, to worm, to fish, to reptile, to mammal to human.
Humans developed an advanced intellect and started to wonder where they came from. Because they didn’t understand anything about how the world around them worked, they decided that there must be a greater being that made the world around them appear. The stars, the Moon, the Sun were gods, greater beings that control the planet. Thunder, lightning, earthquakes and all natural disasters were caused by these gods, also plentiful harvests, and happiness too were the result of the gods as well.
Science started getting more advanced, and many people decided that having hundreds or thousands of Gods was unrealistic, so they decided that one God was enough. Science progressed forward, and people began understanding the nature of the universe. Many started dismissing God altogether, but many more decided that all this was evidence of God’s greatness.
This story shows that in our universe, everything started from the simple fundamental particles and got more complex as time went forward. Our belief systems started from very simple and got more complex too.
I have to ask the question, if the universe started from an extremely simple origin and grew more complex as time moved forward, how could an infinitely complex god exist before the simple origins of the universe? The universe progresses from simple to complex, therefore this leaves me to question whether God could exist as an infinitely complex being before the beginning of an infinitely simple start to our universe.
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