an quoted argument for theism on sun may damon wrote a christian friend of mine once reasoned that if we were never created we could not exists therefore we were created and therefore there exists a creator i hesitate to comment on the validity of this because i do not know what your friend meant by it if he meant that whatever exists must have been created then he is open to the obvious retort that god exists and so god must have been created perhaps your friend meant that we exist now but that there was a time when we did not exist and therefore something other than ourselves must have brought us into existence this seems plausible but an atheist might reply so my parents engendered me so what here your friend would have to explain why an infinite regress of causes is not a satisfactory explanation he would have some support from philosophers who are not ordinarily considered religious ayn rand and some others who are in the tradition of aristotle having argued for a first cause he would have to bridge the gap between said entity and the god of abraham if he merely asserts that the things we observe are ultimately dependent on things radically unlike them few physicists would disagree yours james kiefer
