(June 17, 2015 at 3:24 pm)TheMuslim Wrote: Hi everyone,
So last night, before falling asleep, I thought of a potential argument for the existence of God (and this isn't the reason why I believe in God), and would like to see feedback on whether it's a good argument or not and why. So this is how it goes:
The universe had a beginning. Therefore there can be only two possibilities: either it was created from nothing, or it created itself. The universe couldn't have created itself because it was nonexistent before its creation. And if it was created from nothing, because nothing existed, there were no factors to narrow down creation to a certain kind of thing, and thus nothingness had an infinite amount of options to choose from to create something. We know that it did choose a particular one. Therefore, by choosing a particular one, it (nothingness) discarded all the other options. Hence, nothingness has an inherent quality of picking certain things and not picking others, and also the power to create its chosen option. But how can nothingness have such qualities of power and choosiness; it is nothing; it has no quality or disposition! If nothingness does indeed have these qualities, then it is no longer nothing; it would be a powerful, choosy being that has the ability to choose freely (because there are no factors to limit its choice) and hence has a free will, and is uncreated. Sounds a lot like God!
Keep in mind that the resulting "nothingness" with its mentioned qualities does seem to match with the Islamic concept of God, because in Shia Islam, Allah (God) is nothing but His Qualities; His Qualities are Him, and are His Essence.
you're doing a pretty god job at implying that nothing "chose" certain qualities and left others out.. How about the right conditions were there in the right amounts for a Big Bang to occur, therefore setting everything in motion to what we see and have today.. Life on a little insignificant planet orbiting a star... what if we found actual life on another planet? would it still be your god who "gave them life"?
If a god created the univserse, why would he wait almost 10 billion years to create a planet to then create man on a fraction of that 4 billion year old planet? if a god created the planet, he could have done so without all the cooling and lack of oxygen, therefore creating man to woshrip/fear him/her a lot sooner...
another point.. why would a god have to pick and chose what he wanted in order to create the universe? wouldn't he/she just create it at will? after all, your god and for that matter, every other god are omnipotent, right?
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