![]() ![]() ![]() I decide to ask the person behind me if I can borrow a dollar. One day, I do not have any money with me to pay for the bus, so I will have to borrow some. For me to go home, I have to get on the bus. Imagine there is a big, red bus, and this bus is the means by which I go home every day. Here is a simple intuitive analogy that’ll explain it more clearly: Suppose we go on forever, will anything ever exist? Logically speaking, no, because everything will always be dependent on something else to create it, so this dependency will go on endlessly, and nothing will ever be created. Suppose we ask what caused God, then, staying philosophically consistent, ask the next question: what caused the cause that caused God? And after that, what caused the cause that caused the cause that caused God? This method of questioning leads to an infinite regress, a causal relationship transmitted through an indefinite number of terms in a series, with no term that begins the causal chain. So the question of who created God is equivalent to the question of “What caused an uncaused thing?” Islamic and Judaeo-Christian scriptures have all consistently stated the notion of God’s eternal existence. The cosmological argument’s first premise is only inclusive of entities that begin to exist, not those who have existed eternally. The reason why the syllogism is fallacious is because it creates a strawman of the cosmological argument, claiming everything needs a cause instead of everything that comes into existence needs a cause. Now if Richard Dawkins wrote a book called The Created God’s Delusion, I doubt any theists would have any problem with that, because they’re typically called idols. Richard Dawkins dedicated an entire book, The God Delusion, on answering the question: “If you believe God created the universe, then who created God?” There is an immediate problem in the wording of that question that must be addressed before trying to answer it: It postulates that God is “created,” thus ruling out an explanation which is most plausible–that God wasn’t created. Truly, the worst of all creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf, the dumb, those who do not use their reason/think. Although some traditionalist scholars like Malik Ibn Anas, the fourth jurisprudential leader, observed the attitude of having blind faith and not asking questions when challenged with difficulty, the holy Qur’an has repeatedly told mankind to ask questions and reflect. Unfortunately for Dawkins, we theists don’t need to take a leap of faith when it comes to this question. Many often accept His existence and other religious beliefs without question, blindly following ancient interpretations which have been passed down for generations. To many, the existence of God is a given, even a default. ![]() There is some merit to that claim as the earthly religious distribution testifies greatly to it. Theists are often stereotyped to inheriting their religious beliefs or being indoctrinated from childhood to believing in God. Contemporary intellectuals by the likes of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris have constantly used the following premises as arguments against the cosmological proof for God’s existence:Īs appealing as their argument may seem at face value, upon brief critical thinking, it is easily refutable. ![]() The question of who created God, a rather simple question, is often reiterated by neo-Atheists in order to disprove God’s existence. Problem of Infinite Regression: Who Created God? ![]()
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