dg wrote:
Ivyy:

I can't comprehend the existence of anything without a creator.

A favorite argument of athiests is the question: If there is a creator, who created the creator? This is indeed a very good question; but athiests then lose the high ground when they try to account for our physical reality as something that either always existed (the "steady state universe" theory) or something that resulted from an unseen higher universe process ("big bang" via colliding "multiverses" theory). Clearly, if the universe can have always existed, so can a creator have always existed. And obviously if the universe can have resulted from some higher unseen multiverse conglomeration, it could just as easily have resulted from some unseen creator.


Just as I could state - If God can simply exist (without a creator), then so can the Universe. The issue of infinite regress is not solveable. As the old saying goes, "You can't get behind 'creation'."

Theists are unable to offer any explanation as to why a God does not require a creator, but that the Universe indeed needs one. Why is this?

I do not believe atheists claim that the Universe always existed. We don't have to account for this physical reality either - It simply is.

If this Universe always existed, an eternity lies in the past, and so, this present is unreachable.