(May 3, 2015 at 4:38 am)robvalue Wrote: Indeed, when we ask who created God, we get special pleading. God needs no creator, contrary to all the arguments the theist has presented so far.
Really, they replaced the mystery of where the universe "came from" with where did the creator of the universe come from, and they still have no answer. But they pretend they do, it just "doesn't need one". Well bucko, in that case maybe the universe doesn't need one. Special pleading is not convincing.
That's my main argument against the philosophical necessity of God-- if you're going to special plead a magical entity that didn't need to be created, then why not look to the universe as the first candidate of the eternally uncreated? Why start making fairy tales of a Sky Daddy who hates women and burns fags?