Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Did God create us, or did we create God?

Lets assume for a moment that there is no God.  This leaves only two other possibilities. 1. The universe itself is eternal or 2. We are here as a result of a random, cosmic accident.  Science suggests that this particular universe we live in had a beginning - it has not always existed in time.  So that only leaves the cosmic accident possibility.

The amount of coincidence necessary for me to be writing this blog is astounding.

1. When the big bang happened, there had to have been just the right amount of force to the explosion that gravity did not immediately collapse it back on itself and yet the particles of light were not blown so far apart that they could not join together to form stars and planets. What caused the big bang, and what existed before the big bang is still a mystery.

2. Something slowed the particles of light down enough to form particles of matter. Scientists are searching for this something, which they call the Higgs boson.  Luckily, the matter and the antimatter that were created by this process did not annihilate each other.

3. A planet capable of producing life formed. Life produced itself.

4. This planet was mostly water, allowing the new microscopic life forms to float around freely and interact with each other.  Water has the very unusual property of being less dense in its solid state than in its liquid state, so during the time when the water was frozen, the ice floated on top, protecting the new life forms instead of crushing them under its weight.

5. The life forms evolved into plants that survive on sunlight and water and which cannot defend themselves, and into animals that have to eat the plants and/or each other in order to survive.

6. Survival of the fittest rules decided that the animals that were best at defending themselves/eating each other were the ones allowed to have offspring that survived.  The plants did okay on their own.

7. The animals evolved into a more "intelligent" being that is able to understand the universe around them (at least 3 dimensions of it), and who feel a need to be connected to that universe and/or each other. When that need is not met, they sometimes find it necessary to kill each other, even when not hungry, contradicting both their intelligence and their survival of the fittest instinct. This species finds it necessary to cover themselves, even on hot days, but let their dogs run around stark naked.

8. Humans all experience the fourth dimension of time the same way. We feel we are moving through it in a straight line at a constant rate.  We can remember what is behind us, but cannot see what is in front of us (or at least we are thought to be crazy if we say we can).

9. All humans die, and we do not know when that will happen.  If we do not die of disease or accident or murder, we die of old age sometime between 110 to 120.  Scientists are looking for cures to diseases, solutions to prevent accidents, and a genetic "cure" for old age that evolution was not able to find.  If we are able to remove all disease, accidents, and old age as causes of death, murder will become the number one cause of death, until we run out of resources due to overcrowding. (God decided in Genesis He would only fight with us for 120 years. In heaven, all of the causes of death will be gone, so we will just live forever. Why was this not possible in the first place?)

10. Because of the uncertainty of our future, and the nature of the humans around us, and our need to feel connected, the writers of the bible "created" God to explain why we act the way we do, and to give future generations some hope for their future, and to make up "rules" for how to get along with each other.  They did this even though they knew they were writing fiction. They chose to die defending that fiction, once again violating the survival of the fittest rules.  Of course, you could decide to believe the writers of the bible were all crazy.  We have been crazy enough to keep reading and believing their fiction for thousands of years.

11. We as "intelligent" beings have been studying the universe and mathematics, trying to get to the point where we can explain and predict everything mathematically, although the "important" things in life still involve our less mathematical emotions.  Recently, a new mathematics has been "discovered", called the mathematics of chaos.  According to this new theory, there are some systems that will never be predictable, no matter how intelligent we get.  We originally thought that if we know all of the starting positions of all of the variables of a system, that we will be able to predict the system once we find the right mathematical model that explains it.  However, there are some systems in which an infinitesimal difference in one starting position of one variable can change the outcome drastically, and some systems where it would take infinite knowledge in order to even know what all of the variables in the system are, and some systems where both of these are true.  This mathematics of chaos has also been called "the butterfly effect", explained by saying that one flap of a butterfly's wings in Central Park may cause the next hurricane to hit Miami.  Earthquakes and weather and cosmic occurences all fall into this category of  "chaotic" systems to a certain degree.  All have been called acts of God.

Now let us assume for a moment that before the big bang, there existed a God who said "Let there be light". The rest of the coincidence above is now explained.