12 SMART Thinkers in 12 Minutes: WHO MADE GOD?

If God made everything, then who made God? In this video, twelve answers are given from thinkers out of various disciplines. The list includes mathematician, John Lennox, apologist, Frank Turek, philosopher, JP Moreland, philosopher William Lane Craig, apologists Cameron Bertuzzi & Whaddoyoumeme, and more.

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[Stinky]

I define the laws of nature as immaterial, absolute, necessary, existing independent of time and space.
[Elegance] goes directly to the question of how the laws of nature are constructed. Nobody knows the answer to that. Nobody! It's a perfectly legitimate hypothesis, in my view, to say that some extremely elegant creator made those laws. But I think if you go down that road, you must have the courage to ask the next question, which is: Where did that creator come from? And where did his, her, or its elegance come from? And if you say it was always there, then why not say that the laws of nature were always there and save a step? -Carl Sagan

[johnalexir]

This sounds a bit like an ad for Ipods

[surfacetension]

Seriously, all I hear from these "answers" is a bunch of people defining "god" in such a way that it fulfills their presuppositions. That's a bad cognitive bias that renders any argument like that illogical. "God must be perfect." What? That's just your presumption, because, if your god is unknowable, then you cannot know that it is perfect. You're just making stuff up to satisfy the argument so that the conclusion is that which you've already decided it will be.

[Dizerner]

I think a better question here is what makes existence contingent. Then if God does not fit that the question dissolves.

[simonsays]

Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, but who painted Da Vinci 🤔

[zbdbz]

do i detect a whiff of question-begging

[generichuman_]

Here' the thing, you don't get to just define things to avoid questions. Calling God unmakeable is an English string of words you can say, but it doesn't make it a true statement, anymore than me defining myself as always right in an internet argument.

[airguitarsalesman]

All this seems to be is just defining God into existence. I don't see how this correlates to evidence at all.

[WaveFunctionCollapsed]

i will rather ask why god exist
thats a hard question
im a believer btw

[workinprogress]

So energy can neither be made nor destroyed.

[surfacetension]

People with certain types of synesthesia CAN actually "smell the color red."

Also, Kalam fails because causality requires time, time is fundamental to our universe; no universe, no time; no time, no causality; no causality, no reason to say the universe had a cause.

[JadDragon]

Some great minds there with some great answers. Thanks for putting this together.

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[ryana]

This completely misses the point of the question. The atheist doesn’t think anything created god - the atheist doesn’t believe god exists. The reason for the question is to point out that the theist insists on causes but then special pleads for god. You’re just defining something into existence.

All I have to do is posit this - the universe is uncreated and has no beginning. I define the universe that way, so you can’t say it has a beginning or a cause.

[ukkisragee]

These things are about finding the mistake, y'know? With this one the mistake is assuming cause and effect is a universal law but claiming it doesn't apply to god through semantics and making assumptions without backing it up.

[thevulture]

Is thr atheist ok with believing in an eternal all powerful universe?

Is it "anything but God"?

[philochristos]

Shouldn't the response be: "Objection! Assuming facts not in evidence"?

[DaysofElijah]

For God to be God he must be uncaused— otherwise we are not talking about God

[dane]

It's obvious to anyone not being myopic, who created God. You have to let yourself see the forest for the trees.

[Evidence]

This is how stupid persons answer the unanswerable.
Christian always claims that everything must have a creator but when it comes to God that rule is set aside.

[adamstewart]

InspiringPhilosophy also once made a video on this in which he thinks it's the worst objection to theism.