Resolution : God does exist

1. Why create a Universe at all ? I am confused by your question or statement. For the next 3 rebuttals, I will go reverse ! 1. You have asserted that as our knowledge of the world increases so does our need for a God. I want to tell you about some people. Georges Lema"tre, a CATHOLIC Priest who proposed the Theory of the Big Bang, he used Einstein's Theory of Relatively to help. Francesco Maria Grimaldi was a Franciscan Priest, a mathematician and physicist. Thomas Aquinas helped to establish the Scientific Theory. http://www3.nd.edu... http://epicpew.com... What is my point ? Science and Faith can work together. I assert that not only Science also known as Reason and Faith can work together, they must work together. For if We only relied on Faith than Superstition will develop. Relying on Reason only will lead to leads to nihilism and relativism. Pope John Paul II wrote, " Yet the positive results achieved must not obscure the fact that reason, in its one-sided concern to investigate human subjectivity, seems to have forgotten that men and women are always called to direct their steps towards a truth which transcends them." http://w2.vatican.va... Science explains the How and Faith explains the why. They work together. My Question for my opponent is : Do you think that nihilism and relativism exists ? 2. What created God ? My Opponent is thinking of God as a a very big person or a machine in the sky. However, these depictions are very far off. God is a purely spiritual being, eternal and uncreated, without beginning or end. No one made Him. He could not have been made. Chicken Nuggets are made. If God came into existence like a Nugget, He would be like a Chicken Nugget. My Opponent's Definition of God is opposite of that. Powerful and all knowing. In addition, each of the listed things above at one time did not exist. They were brought into existence by something else and will go out of existence at some point and time in the future. God is not like a water bottle or a chicken nugget. Consequently, it is impossible that God then could have been brought into existence, or go out of existence like these things do. If He did, He would be the same as these created objects, which is silly. This is not God. If God had a beginning, He would not and could not be God " by definition. If He came into existence, He would be dependent on something or someone else for His existence as chicken nuggets owe their existence to something else. If someone "created" God, then that Being would be God. Get it? Then, someone would ask where that Being came from, ad infinitum. This leads to contradiction of Who God is. By definition, God is the highest Being. He is eternal, not in need of being created. God is perfect being and existence " not contingent or dependent on anything else. He is not a being among many, He is Being itself. He is not in existence as we are (destined to go out of existence like stars, planets, and us mere humans), He is existence! Pure existence. If he didn"t exist, we wouldn"t either. He is the transcendent cause holding everything else in existence. This is important to understand! And about the what started the world question, the Catholic Church has always been supportive of the Big Bang and Evolution. http://www.ewtn.com... http://w2.vatican.va... 3. The Concept of God is not a religious scam or a hoax but something that people have been crafting and talking about for who knows when. Alfred North Whitehead, a greatly respected Mathematician and Philosopher believed that God is not neccersailty tied to Religion. But saw God as necessary for his metaphysical system. (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 207. ) He also wrote that religion served as a kind of bridge between philosophy and the emotions and purposes of a particular society. It is the task of religion to make philosophy applicable to the everyday lives of ordinary people. Thomas Jefferson also believed in a God but not religion. He using " God " many, many times in his writings but not accepting Jesus's teachings. Anthony Flew, another respected Athiest Philosopher, converted to believing in a God near his death but not a religion. There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (2007) with Roy Abraham Varghese (ISBN 978-0-06-133529-7). My Point is, why put stereotypes ? Thank you !