| Slimebeast said: God is extremely powerful and exists independent of time and space. The existence of a material universe with a distinct beginning demands a cause outside of the universe itself. A powerful creator God satisfies this demand (and certainly much better than the ridicilous ad-hoc multiverse theory). |
That's all that God is? Nearly all interpretations of God assign more characteristics than those two. There's also the God having consciousness which is present in nearly every interpretation, and many religions have very specific characteristics too, like being all-loving, having a plan for humanity, designing humanity in his "image", etc.
A few objections to your post:
(A) You base your reasoning on the fact that everything needs a cause to come to existence. This "law" has only been observed in our universe. How do you know this law applies outside of our universe and/or before the existence of our universe? In fact, it's pretty much gauranteed that this principle doesn't exist outside of our universe. Even if you believe in God, you believe the principle of cause and effect doesn't exist outside of our universe since God has existed forever. In any theory, when you go back far enough, eventually you reach a point where something just "happened", or you'll discover that something always existed.
(B) Let's assume our universe does need a cause. The only necessary characteristic of that cause would be to have more power than our universe (and even this is kind of shaky, but I'll assume it for the sake of the argument). It wouldn't need to be conscious or loving or even intelligent. These are just unjustified assumptions. Therefore, the theory that the universe had an unknown very powerful cause (with no further assumptions on its characteristics) is more likely than the God "theory" which brings many unjustified assumptions such as the cause having consciousness, existing for an eternity, being all-loving, etc.
(C) Please explain why the God theory is more satisfactory than the multiverse theory and explain why the multiverse theory is ridiculous.
