Creationist Equivocation

[Angrboda]

God, if real and past eternal, could not have created the universe/everything that exists. If it preceded the universe as we know it, God WAS the universe...everything that exists. And God would have had to have time in order to think and act, so time would have to be past-eternal as well and not created by God. So at most God could have expanded on the universe that was God (the kabalistic idea of a universe that emanates from God is more sensible than the Christian ex nihilo notion, IMHO) or created a new universe (compatible with the common Christian claim that God is outside of our universe).

OTOH, some people's idea of God is so rarified that it can't be differentiated from quantum foam, which avoids some of these problems.

I think avoiding problems is the point of many of these gods.