WHO CREATED GOD? by John N. Clayton It is easy to make an
argument for God’s existence from a cosmological standpoint. As
the years have gone by, a growing amount of scientific data has
accumulated which negates atheistic assumptions about how matter
and the cosmos came into existence and how it has arrived at its
present condition. As a science teacher and public lecturer on
the compatibility of belief in God and science, I have been
impressed with an increasing awareness on the part of many
scientists and theologians that science and religion are
symbiotic disciplines. One question which inevitably comes up in
a discussion of this nature is what the origin of God is? If God
created matter/energy and designed the systems that have
propelled matter into its present arrangement, who or what
accomplished that for God? Why is it any more reasonable to
believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter
has always been? As Carl Sagan has said, “If we say that God has
always been, why not save a step an