Most religions confess that the universe did not arise randomly from nothing but that its originator is God. It therefore seems logical to ask, if God created everything, then who created God? And who made the creator God? In theory, this chain of questions could be continued indefinitely. But is the question “who created God” really justified?
World-famous scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, and Carl Sagan also dealt with the search for the cause of all causes in their famous books. Theoretical physicist Hawking deals with this dilemma in The Grand Plan: ” It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, the question is only diverted to the following: who created God.” “
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins realizes that the human mind is faced with the puzzle of explaining the complexity of nature. In the book Boží blud, he states that people are deceived by the illusion that someone designed the universe, soul, and man. However, the Creator hypothesis, writes Dawkins, immediately raises the question of who created the Designer. Dawkins thus prefers Darwin’s natural selection to creation and declares: ” God almost certainly does not exist .”
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In 2009, London saw a bus campaign by atheists that boasted the slogan “God probably doesn’t exist.” Richard Dawkins also supported the campaign. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist_Bus_Campaign )
How could a believing Christian respond to such objections? Quite simply. The question of who created God wrongly assumes that God is a created being among beings. Such a characterization could apply to the created mythological gods of ancient religions and cults. However, traditional monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) understand God as uncreated, outside of time and space. Since the time of Aristotle, the philosophers of theism have explained that God is also a necessary being, an uncaused cause, an immovable mover, and the like.
The question of who created God wrongly assumes that God is a created being among beings. Such a characterization could apply to the created mythological gods of ancient religions and cults.
From this perspective, the question of who created God is meaningless because it is like asking who created an uncreated being. It is similar to asking – if the locomotive moves the cars, who drives the locomotive? (Certainly, it is an engine, but no other agent is different from the locomotive that carries it.) The Oxford mathematician John Lennox adds: ” God is eternal; he is the ultimate reality, the ultimate fact. To ask who created him is to show a misunderstanding of the nature of his being. As a convinced atheist, Hawking prefers the laws of nature: ” Because there is a law of gravity, the universe can create itself from nothing.”However, this conclusion immediately leads to the question of where the law of gravity came from/who created it if one does not believe that God created the universe but believes that a random flow of eternal created the universe and everything in it (?) matter and energy, where did this matter and energy.
Austin Farrer’s words are worth pondering: ” The point of contention between atheist and believer is not whether it makes sense to ask about an ultimate fact, but rather which fact is ultimate.” For an atheist, the ultimate fact is the universe; for a believer, it is God.
Misunderstandings can also arise in connection with the cosmological argument of the existence of God, where many tend to ask, as mentioned earlier, who created God? The idea has a simple wording.
1) Everything that begins to exist has a cause for its existence.
2) The world began to exist.
3) Therefore, the world has a reason for its existence.
The argument’s first premise is worth noting, which does not say that everything has a cause for its existence but that everything that significantly exists has a reason for its existence.
Asking critical questions about faith makes sense. Not all of them make sense, even if they look smart at first glance. When St. Augustine was asked what God was doing all eternity before the world’s creation, Augustine jokingly replied that he was creating hell for people who asked such questions. But now thoughtfully – Augustine responded that before the world’s creation, there was no time because God created time together with matter. Therefore, it again makes no sense to ask what God was doing in the time before the moment of creation.
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