(December 27, 2014 at 1:17 am)whateverist Wrote: Well it is pretty obvious that life could not have evolved from a pile of sand. Without Famous Jehovah's secret sauce, that sand would have remained sand. Now how sand ever became a Famous Jehovah is a different question and one no religion can answer. Perhaps Jehovah came even before the sand from nothing whatsoever, an impressive trick if ever there was one. And if God could come from nothing at all then so could everything else.Beginnings only make sense were time is linear like the our cosmic timeline that's unidirectional and unstoppable, and functions in the mode of cause and effect transactions. According the big bang cosmology theory: time, space, energy, matter began 13 billion years ago. If God caused the universe, by necessitate then He has access to at least another time dim. or it's equivalent and is independent of the comic timeline which requires a beginning.
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'everything else' is a contingent reality (cannot bring itself into existence).
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.