Who Made God?

            I was recently discussing the topic of creation and evolution with an employee at a local retail store.  The lady told me that her husband was an atheist and that they did not attend church.  My argument for divine creation was based on how nothing in existence comes from nothing.  Such an argument, in technical terms, is called the teleological argument.  In short, it is based on the statement that anything with design demands a designer.  Probably the most well-known “teleological” defense came from William Paley in his 1802 publication of Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity.  Paley based his argument around the “watchmaker analogy.”  The argument states that if one was to stumble upon a random watch on a place like a beach, that it would be assumed that the watch was designed by somebody, given that an item with such specific detail could not come about by chance.  Using the same analogy, one should also assume that the universe was also deliberately designed by an intelligent designer.

After having presented this evidence to the retail employee, her response was that her husband would still say, “Well, who made God?”  This is a good question, and would be difficult to reconcile, if it were true that God was a contingent being.  A contingent being is anyone or anything that is dependent on someone else for its existence.  An example of this would be how children are contingent (dependent) upon their parents for their survival.  What makes God unique is that His existence is not dependent upon anything.  He has and always will be in existence.  So the answer to “Who made God?” is no one, He is God.

Jesse LeMay