by Mike Gray
Don Batten at CMI says yes:
This question [of who created God] is a major objection that atheists put forward to justify their disbelief. Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), a famous British philosopher, in his influential little essay, “Why I Am Not a Christian,” put this forward as his first objection. Today’s atheists repeat the objection, including Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and Australia’s own Philip Adams at the 2010 Global Atheists’ Congress in Melbourne Australia, who said, “The great argument for God was that there had to be a Creation, a beginning. … But my objection was simple. If God was the beginning who began God?”
The universe had a beginning; almost no one disputes that, because the laws of thermodynamics demand it: the universe is running down and it cannot have been running down forever, or it would have already run down. No stars would be still churning out energy and we would not be here.
Some have proposed one universe giving birth to another, but again, there cannot be an infinite series of such births and deaths, as each cycle must have less energy available than the last and if this had been happening for eternity, the death of everything would have already happened.
Read the rest of Batten’s article here.
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Has the World Been Turned Upside Down? Do You Really Have to Ask?
Also at CMI, Dominic Statham reviews Melanie Phillips’ new book, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power:
Melanie Phillips is an award-winning British journalist and author, who appears regularly on BBC television and radio discussion programmes. Despite her being an agnostic, she is known for energetically defending Judeo/Christian values and warning of the consequences of Britain’s and Europe’s descent into secularism and moral decline. Her latest book is a staggering exposé of the extent to which irrationality and aggressive, anti-Christian ideologies now dominate the corridors of power in the parliaments of Britain and the European Union.
Covering subjects as wide-ranging as global warming, the Iraq war, Israel, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, secularism, scientism and the creation/evolution debate, Phillips claims that much of the public discourse has departed sharply from reality. Anthropogenic global warming, she believes, is a myth; the Middle East situation consistently and deliberately misreported; reason and science worshipped; the evidence for creation ignored; and the perfectly rational belief in God deemed, by a self-appointed ruling intelligentsia, to be the height of ignorance and folly.
Read the rest of Statham’s review here.
