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asked 4 months ago

When an atheist asks a believer how God was created, isn’t this a symmetrical question to the believer’s question about what happened before the Big Bang? Atheists say they don’t know what happened before and don’t need to keep digging into the causal chain. Can’t we give them the same answer? That is, say we don’t know how God was created?

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מיכי Staff answered 4 months ago

I dealt with this in the first place. You can always say that I don’t know. I’m also not asking what was before the Big Bang, but who caused it. That’s not the same question. But I don’t know is a statement about you, not an argument. If someone offers an explanation for some phenomenon, and you have no other explanation but you claim to not know, then you’ve lost. There is one explanation and you have no alternative. When I prove to you that your position is wrong because it can’t explain something and hence it is proven that my position is right (because it does manage to explain it), you can’t tell me that you don’t know. That’s not an answer. Otherwise, any proof by way of negation will be rejected outright on the grounds that I don’t know.

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אדיר replied 4 months ago

I'm trying to understand whether the atheist can even gain anything from the question of how God was created. After all, even if the believer says he doesn't know, the atheist has no alternative that explains what caused the Big Bang.

מיכי Staff replied 4 months ago

Yes, but it is argued that even a believer has no explanation.