Question at Yahoo and my answer: "If theists believe that the universe must have been 'created' from something because it is impossible for it to be created by itself then why can't the same logic about it be applied to 'God'?"

"If theists believe that the universe must have been 'created' from something because it is impossible for it to be created by itself then why can't the same logic about it be applied to 'God'?" 

Idiots are constantly looking for a hiding place for their Magic Man of the Gaps. The beginning of the universe is one of their favorite hiding places, as if natural processes require a fairy's magic wand. 

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." 
-- Isaac Asimov 

"why can't the same logic about it be applied to 'God'?" 

Ask a religious nutjob that question and the answer is always "my fairy had no beginning" as if that's suppose to make sense. Religious people are religious because they're just plain stupid.

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