The conundrum of a Creator God

One of the most common explanations of what God is, is that God is the Creator, and responsible for creating everything. That means everything that exists was created by God.

So, we have two propositions:

• God exists.
• God created everything that exists.

It follows that God created God. Does that sound right?

One of the most common refrains of people who subscribe to intelligent design is that the very complexity and regularity of life suggests that it needed an intelligent hand to be created. After all, entropy would suggest that you cannot get order from disorder, or so they claim. Here's the problem though. According to them, anything of complexity can only arise from something even more complex. God, therefore, must be significantly more complex than us. But, then the question is where did God come from?

If we argue that God always existed, why couldn't everything else have always existed? Why do we need a Creator?

Ultimately, if there is a Creator God, i.e. a separate entity that created us, the biggest conundrum is where that entity come from?

Does God exist?

With the release of the movie "Religulous", Bill Maher and Larry David have waded into the debate about whether God exists. Bill Maher claims that his movie is really about challenging the certitude of religion. However, it is clear that he doesn't believe in religion or God. The question is, should we?

The question "Does God exist?" is suprisingly difficult to interpret.

To begin with, what do we mean by "does"? Does has a temporal connotation. But, what time is relevant? For instance, starlight reaching earth often comes from stars billions of light years away. These stars may have burnt away or exploded many millions of years ago. Yet, their light has only just reached us, and to us, they exist. But do they? Is it sufficent that they did exist? What time is relevant?

What do we mean by God? Are we interpreting God to literally be the God of a particular religion? Or do we mean the general concept of God. And if its the general concept of God, what is that concept?

Also, what do we mean by exist? What exists? Do thoughts exist? Does the Wonderland described by Lewis Carrlo exist? How do we know?

These are tough questions. There are no specific answers. But over the posts here, I'll explore what issues the answers would need to address.