Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9801519-20130614044126/@comment-4295646-20130614234402

Sloshedtrain wrote: I never found the concept of God to make sense, mainly because of the God fallacy. Religious people claim that the Earth had be created from God because of design, but they never talk about where God came from. I'm I suppose to believe that God created itself? Then that contradicts what religion says about God creating the universe. It doesn't, really. Thomas Aquinas (most famously, though he borrowed the notion from Aristotle) discussed God as perhaps the single exception to the otherwise faultless rule of causality: that everything exists and happens as a result of the existence or action of something else. And this is largely what would make Him such a special and unlimited being - the unique ability to self-create, unlike all the contingent objects and events in nature. We term such a being an uncaused cause, or a first mover.