The question “Who or what created God?” is often used as an argument against God

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The question “Who or what created God?” is often used as an argument against God’s existence. One assumption built into this argument is that God has a beginning and/or is limited to our understanding of time and the laws of physics. Stephen Hawking, regarded as the most brilliant physicist of our time, uses a similar line of reasoning to argue that God could not have created the universe because time did not exist before the Big Bang and therefore God would have had no time to create the universe. Isn’t it interesting how so many renowned scientists have given their opinion on this subject? Do you think it is appropriate for scientists to address the issue of God’s existence and the origin of the universe?

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Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity. Hawking says the first blow to Newton's belief that the universe could not have arisen from chaos was the observation in 1992 of a planet orbiting a star other than our Sun. "That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions – the single sun, the lucky combination of Earth-sun distance and solar mass – far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings"

One of three things are possible:

The latter two possibilities seem impossible because our experience is limited to our five senses and Newtonian physics. In our tiny world, nothing happens without a cause, and everything has a beginning.

But once you dive into the realm of cosmology, particle physics, and quantum mechanics, you learn some truly mind-blowing things about how limited our perspective is. Multiple dimensions, parallel universes, an infinite universe, and matter spring into existence out of nothing - none of these are proven, but nothing precludes any of them from being the case.

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