Libs & Xmas
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Gabriel, atheists and the like object that positing God only raises more questions without answering the original question of the origin of the universe. It only moves the question back a step, so that instead of asking how the universe came into existence, we ask how God came into existence.
However, this objection is true of any proposed explanation for the beginning of the universe, including those proposed by scientists and/or atheists. If the current universe came about through the Big Bang, what caused the Big Bang? If the Big Bang was caused by a Big Crunch, what caused the Big Crunch, and where did all the matter that is contracting and expanding come from?
Actually, positing God does answer some questions which aren't answered by scientific explanations. Positing an immaterial, powerful being as an uncaused cause explains how the physical universe could have come to exist without relying on the existence of matter in some prior universe. And positing God provides a starting point to answer philosophical questions about the purpose of the universe and our lives, which scientific explanations can't address.